Farrah Atassi Still Life with Guitar, 2017, oil and enamel on canvas, 63 x 78 inches; Still Life with Carafe, 2017, oil and enamel on canvas, 37 x 51 inches; Psychedelic Setting 3, 2017, oil and enamel on canvas, 51 x 63 inches / Images courtesy the artist and Ghebaly Gallery

MEMBERSHIP

Start filling up your bookshelf...

JOIN LARB TODAY or LOGIN

QUARTERLY JOURNAL

BLARB

FEATURED ARTIST

FARRAH ATASSI

Farah Atassi (b. 1981, Brussels, Belgium) lives and works in Paris where she completed her studies at the Ecole Nationale supérieure des Beaux Arts in 2005. Recent solo exhibitions include Xippas Gallery, Paris and Geneva; Extra City Kunstal, Antwerp, Belgium; Galerie Michel Rein, Brussels, Belgium; Le Grand Café, Saint Nazaire Art Center, France; and Le Portique, Contemporary Art Center, Le Havre, France. Select institutional exhibitions include Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France; Biennale of Painting, Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen-Zulte, Belgium; MAC/VAL, Val-de-Marne, France; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Musée Régional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan, France; Musée des Beaux-arts de Libourne, France; Palais d’Iéna, Paris, France; Biennale de Curitiba, Brazil; and Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France. In 2013, Atassi was nominated for the Prix Marcel Duchamp, and in 2012, she was named the winner of the Jean-François Prat Prize in France. Her work has been featured in Artforum, Frieze Magazine, and ArtPress, among other publications, and her first bilingual monograph was published by Les Presses du Réel in 2015. Her current exhibition is at Ghebaly Gallery through August 12, 2017.