Born 1981 in Brussels, Belgium
Lives and works in Paris, France
Education
2013
Nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize
Residence at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, US
2012
Jean-François Prat Prize, Paris, France
2008
Individual assistance to creation, Ministry of Culture, DRAC Île de France, France
2003
School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as part of an exchange program with Ensb-a
2001
Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism, The College Art Association, US
1999 - 2005
ENSBA (Ecole Nationale supérieure des Beaux Arts), Paris, France
Jean-Michel Alberola’s studio, Paris, France
Solo exhibitions
2025
'Genius Loci' Farah Atassi, Museo Picasso Málaga, Spain
2024
'La société des spectacles', Fondation Pernod Ricard, Paris, France
'The Lost Hours', Almine Rech, London, UK
2023
'Mechanical Cabaret', Galerie François Ghebaly, Los Angeles, CA, US
'Farah Atassi', Musée national Picasso-Paris, Paris, France
2022
'Artistes et Modèles', Musée Picasso Paris, France
'Resting Dancers', Almine Rech, Shanghai, China
'Les Repos des Danseuses', Galerie Xippas, Geneva, Switzerland
2020
'Paintings', Almine Rech, Paris, France
Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles (Online Viewing Room), US
2019
Consortium Museum, Dijon, France
'Paintings', Almine Rech New York, US
2018
'Farah Atassi - Oeuvres en dialogue', Musée des Beaux-Arts, Cambrai, France
'UNIVERSAL FOLKLORE / FARAH ATASSI & TRAMAINE DE SENNA', Museum Permeke, Jabbeke, Belgium
'Farah Atassi', Michel Rein, Brussels, Belgium
2017
'Farah Atassi', Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, US
'Farah Atassi', Xippas Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2016
'Farah Atassi', Xippas Gallery, Paris, France
2015
'Farah Atassi', Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp, Belgium
'Farah Atassi', Galerie Michel Rein, Brussels, Belgium
2014
'Farah Atassi', Le Grand Café, Saint Nazaire Art Center, France
'Farah Atassi', Le Portique, Contemporary Art Center, Le Havre, France
'Farah Atassi', Xippas Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2013
'Farah Atassi', Xippas Gallery, Paris, France
2012
'Derelict', Edouard Manet Gallery, Gennevilliers, France (with Stéphanie Cherpin)
2011
'Farah Atassi', Xippas Gallery, Paris, France
'Farah Atassi & Elodie Lesourd', Les Eglises, Centre d’art contemporain, Chelles, France
2010
'La Vitrine', Jean Brolly Gallery, Paris, France
Selected group exhibitions
2025
'In the Mood…', Frac Normandie, Caen, France
'Pom pom Pidou: Un récit renversant de l’art moderne', Le Tripostal, Lille, France
'Tomorrow the Ocean?', Salle d'Exposition du Quai Antoine Ier, Monaco (upcoming)
2024
Art Basel Paris, Almine Rech, France
‘Body of Work’, Mrs., New York, NY, US
Frieze Seoul, Almine Rech, Seoul, Korea
‘Licked by the Waves’, Museum MORE, Gorssel, Netherlands
Art Brussels, Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium
Frieze Los Angeles, Almine Rech, CA, US
2023
'Celebrating Picasso Today: Infinite Modernism', Almine Rech London, UK
'The Echo of Picasso', Almine Rech Upper East Side, New York, US
'The Echo of Picasso', Almine Rech Tribeca, New York, US
'The Echo of Picasso', Museo Picasso Málaga, Málaga, Spain
'The Memory Palace', Dacia-Romania Palace, Bucharest, Romania
'Feeling of Light', Almine Rech Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Paris+ par Art Basel, Almine Rech, Paris, France
Art Basel, Almine Rech, Basel, Switzerland
2022
'Entrée dans la ronde', Frac Nouvelle-Aquitaine MÉCA, France
'(Re)Bâtir', Les Abattoirs / le Centre de détention de Muret, France
'We Paint!', Beaux-Arts de Paris, France
'Un musée à soi', Musée régional d’art contemporain, Sérignon, France
2021
'Picasso - Bathers', Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, France
2020
'Picasso. Baigneuses et Baigneurs', Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France
2019
'Lineup', Almine Rech Gallery, New York
'MNAR', National Museum of Art in Bucharest, Romania
'Oeuvres en Dialogues', Musée des Beaux-Arts, Cambrai, France
2018
'Fun House', Josh Lilley Gallery, London, UK
Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
2017
'Theatre of the Absurd', Green Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
'Clouds / Forests', 7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2016
'Hétérotopies', Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France
'Questioning the Shapes', Michel Rein, Brussels, Belgium
'Yoknapatawpha', Biennale of Painting, Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen-Zulte, Belgium
'A question of perspective', GRIMM Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
'Folklore planetaire', Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
2015
'It Rained Again', Bureau, New York
'Avec et sans peinture: Works from the Collection', MAC/VAL, Val-de-Marne, France
2014
'Beyond the Grid', Michel Rein, Brussels, Belgium
'Fruits de la passion: collection from the musée national d’art moderne', Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Hyogo Prefecturam Museum of Art, Kobé, Japan
2013
'After, with Leonor Antunes, Farah Atassi, David Diao, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Josiah McElheny, Franck Scurti, Simon Starling & Lucy Williams; Galerie JGM, Paris, France
Entre deux, with Peter Downsbrough, Dan Graham, Alexandra Leykauf, Gordon Matta-Clark, Tatiana Trouvé', Musée Régional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan, France
'Farah Atassi, Latifa Echakhch, Claire Fontaine, Raphaël Zarka, artists nominated for the Marcel Duchamp Prize 2013', Musée des Beaux-arts de Libourne, France
'Boîte-en-Valise', Institut Français
2012
'L’art contemporain s’invite à Saint-Germain', 10th edition of the Parcours Saint-Germain, Paris, France
2011
'Soudain, Déjà', ensba, Paris, France
'Pearls of the North', Palais d’Iéna, Paris, France
'Beyond the Crisis', Biennale de Curitiba; Alfons Hug et Ticio Escobar (cur.), Brazil
'Look', Xippas contemporary art, Geneva, Switzerland
'There are two sides to every coin, and two sides to your face', Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
'Si l’espace n’était qu’une dimension intérieure', Abbaye Sanit-André, Meymac, France
2010
'Festival', New Festival of the Pompidou center in the Hermitage, Bernard Blistène (cur.), Hermitage Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
'Dynasty', ARC/ Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France 55th Salon de Montrouge, Stéphane Corréard (cur.), La Fabrique, Montrouge, France
2009
'Treasures for Theatre', Cécilia Bécanovic (cur.), La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel, France
'Insides/Insights', galerie ANNE +, Ivry-sur-Seine, France
2008
'Inertie du héros', La Vitrine (cur.), galerie des Beaux-Arts de Cergy, Paris, France
Awards and achievements
Chevalière de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
Public collections
ASE Foundation, China
Deji Art Museum, Nanjing, China
MAC/VAL, Musée d’art contemporain Val de Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (MAMVP), Paris, France
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Davis Museum, Wellesley, MA, US
FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France
FRAC Normandie, France
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, France
Société Générale, Paris-la Défense, France
Collection Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, US
ENSB-A, Ecole nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Fondation Louis Vuitton pour la création
FMAC, Fonds municipal d’art contemporain
Musée régional d’art contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées, Sérignan, France
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
