Rayyane Tabet

Rayyane Tabet (born 1983) is a Lebanese visual artist, known for his sculpture.

Early life and education
Rayyane Tabet was born in 1983 in Ashqout, Lebanon. He has training as an artist and as an architect, and has a Bachelor of Architecture degree (2008) from Cooper Union, and a MFA degree (2012) from the University of California, San Diego.

Art career
Tabet is a visual artist, known for his sculpture. He has lived and worked in both Beirut and San Francisco.

Much of Tabet's work is based on research and mostly about socio-political history, informed by architecture.

The Five Distant Memories series was work from 2006 until 2016, about the transformation of Tabet's early childhood memories in relationship to objects, and situations. His first solo exhibition in Italy was La Mano De Dios (2016) at the Marino Marini Museum, which included work from his Five Distant Memories series.

In 2019, the exhibition Rayyane Tabet / Alien Property opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and displayed the museum's orthostat reliefs and Tabet's graphite transfers, Orthostates, in tandem with his family heirlooms. The exhibition explores the task of locating and tracing provenance, particularly through reference to the Alien Property Act and the objects purchased at auction by the museum after they had been seized by the Office of Alien Property Custodian. It conveys the fragmentation and division as Tell Halaf sat at the center of political governance and conflict. It also addresses the role of an encyclopedic museum in conversation and collaboration with the past, and its voices.

Tabet was selected to participate in the 2022 Whitney Biennial titled "Quiet as It's Kept" curated by Adrienne Edwards and David Breslin.

Tabet has been awarded the Emerging Artist Award of the Sharjah Biennial (2011); the Jury Prize of the Future Generation Art Prize (2012); and the Abraaj Group Art Prize (2013). His work can be found in public museum collections including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Exhibitions

 * 2024	A Model, MUDAM, Luxembourg
 * 2023	A Model: Prelude, MUDAM, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
 * 2023 Arabesque, Sfeir-Semler Downtown, Beirut, Lebanon
 * 2023 The Return, Sfeir-Semler Karantina, Beirut, Lebanon
 * 2023	Guest Relations, Jameel Arts Center, Dubai, UAE
 * 2023 In the Heart of Another Country: The Diasporic Imagination Rises, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
 * 2023 Machinations, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
 * 2022	Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It's Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
 * 2022 Uncombed, Unforeseen, Unconstrained, Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello, Venice, Italy
 * 2022 Kunstenfestivaldesarts – 27th Edition, Various locations in Brussels, Belgium
 * 2022 A Casa é Sua: Migração e hos(ti)pitalidade fora do lugar, Paço Imperial, Rio de Janeiro
 * 2022 In The Heart of Another Country, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
 * 2021	Rayyane Tabet: Exquisite Corpse, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE
 * 2021 Rayyane Tabet: Arabesque, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
 * 2021 Deep Blues, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
 * 2020	Arabesque, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA
 * 2020	A sun yellow with anger, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
 * 2020 AFTERGLOW, Yokohama Triennale 2020, Yokohama, Japan
 * 2020 Desert X AlUla, AlUla, Saudi Arabia
 * 2020 between the sun and the moon, Lahore Biennale 02, Pakistan
 * 2019	Encounters, Parasol Unit Foundation for Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom
 * 2019 Alien Property, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
 * 2019 Forgotten Kingdoms, Louvre Museum, Paris, France
 * 2019 FRAGMENTS, Carré d’Art, Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes, France
 * 2019	Phantom Limb, Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai, UAE
 * 2019 When the Present is History, Depo, Istanbul, Turkey
 * 2018	FAULT LINE, Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, Bolzano, Italy
 * 2018 FRAGMENTS, Sfeir-Semler Karantina, Beirut, Lebanon
 * 2018	Living in the Mediterranean, Institut Valencià d’art Modern, Valencia, Spain
 * 2018 Crude, Jameel Arts Center, Dubai, UAE
 * 2018 Cycles of Collapsing Progress, Rashid Karami International Fair, Tripoli, Lebanon
 * 2018 Superposition - 21st Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Opera House, Australia
 * 2018 Dear Victoria, performance, Fast Forward Festival Five, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece
 * 2018 Manifesta 12, Palermo, Italy
 * 2018 Truth is black, write over it with a mirage’s light, 30th Anniversary Inaugural Exhibition, Darat al Funun, Amman, Jordan
 * 2017	BRUCHSTÜCKE / FRAGMENTS, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany
 * 2017 KOPF HOCH! MUT HOCH! UND HUMOR HOCH!, daadgalerie, Berlin, Germany
 * 2017 Ah, my beautiful Venus!, Witte de With Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
 * 2016	La Mano De Dios, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, Italy
 * 2016	Faisons de l’inconnu un allié, Fondation Lafayette, Paris, France
 * 2016 Incerteza Viva, 32nd São Paulo Biennial, Brazil
 * 2016 ... und eine welt noch, Kunsthaus Hamburg, Germany
 * 2016 Wunderlust, High Line Art, New York, USA
 * 2016 Not New Now, Marrakech Biennial 6, Morocco
 * 2015	ONLY GODS NEVER DIE, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
 * 2014	Here Today Gone Tomorrow, TrouwAmsterdam, Netherlands
 * 2013	The Shortest Distance Between Two Points, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
 * 2013	extra | ordinary, The Abraaj Group Art Prize 2013, Dubai, UAE
 * 2013 Future Generation Art Prize @ Venice, The 55th Venice Biennial, Italy
 * 2013 HIWAR: Conversations in Amman, Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordan
 * 2012	The Future Generation Art Prize 2012, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine
 * 2012 The Ungovernables: The 2012 New Museum Triennial, New Museum, New York, USA
 * 2011	Plot for a Biennial, Sharjah Biennial 10, Sharjah, UAE
 * 2010	Noise, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
 * 2008	Art Now in Lebanon, Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordan
 * 2006	Moving Homes, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon

Awards and residencies

 * 2016	DAAD Artists in Residency Program, Berlin, Germany
 * 2013	Abraaj Group Art Prize, Dubai, UAE
 * 2012	Future Generation Art Prize Jury Award, Ukraine
 * 2011	Sharjah Biennial 10 Artist Prize, Sharjah, UAE

Publications
In 2018, Tabet published FRAGMENTS/BRUCHSTÜCKE, published by Kunstverein, Hamburg, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program & KAPH Books.