Etel Adnan
Etel Adnan was born in 1925 in Beirut, Lebanon. She died on November 14, 2021 in Paris. A Lebanese-American artist, poet and essayist, she wrote in English and French. She has been painting since the 1960s, and her work has received international recognition since Documenta13, in 2012.
In 2014, she was invited to the Whitney Museum Biennial (New York) and Qatar’s museum of modern art, the Mathaf, devoted a retrospective to her, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Since then, numerous museums (Berne, Luxembourg, San Francisco, Aspen, Lille…) and art centers have devoted exhibitions to her.
Adnan’s works can be found in numerous collections, including MNAM-Centre Pompidou, Paris; Mathaf, Doha, Qatar; MoMA, New York; M+, Hong Kong; Royal Jordanian Museum, Amman; Musée d’Art Moderne, Tunis; Sursock Museum, Beirut; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; British Museum, London; Tate Gallery, London; World Bank Collection, Washington D. C.; National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington D. C.; and numerous private collections. C.; National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.; as well as in numerous private collections.
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2025 :
- On Paper, 1960 – 2021, Galerie Lelong & Co, New York, France
2024 :
- Notte al Palazzo, La Tinaia al Bosco, San Casciano in Val di Pesa, Italy
2023 :
- Etel Adnan & Simone Fattal. Voices without Borders KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
- Poetry of Colors, Kunstsammlung, Düsseldorf, Germany
2022 :
- Retrospective, Lenbachhaus Museum, Munich, Germany
- Tras la línea del horizonte, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Tenerife, Spain
- Découverte de l’immédiat / Discovery of Immediacy, Galerie Lelong & Co. Paris & New York, France & United States
- Etel Adnan, Musée des Tapisseries, Aix-en-Provence, France Colour as Language, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2021 :
- Light’s New Measure, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
- Impossible Homecoming, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
2020 :
- Seasons, Galerie Lelong & Co, New York, United States Leporellos, Galerie Lelong & Co, Paris, France
- Satellites and Planets, Galerie Lelong & Co, Paris, France
2019 :
- Departure, Institute of Modern Art, Nuremberg, Germany
- Each Day is a Whole World, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, United States
- Etel Adnan and the Moderns, Mudam, Luxembourg
2018 :
- A Yellow Sun, A Green Sun, A Yellow Sun, A Red Sun, A Blue Sun, MASS MoCA, North Adams, USA
- New Work, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – SFMOMA, San Francisco, United States
- Life is a Weaving – Tapestries and prints, Galerie Lelong & Co, Paris, France
- Talking to flowers, Galerie Lelong & Co, Paris , France
- All I do is remember, Château la Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France
- Etel Adnan, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
- The fulgurance of gesture, Jan Michalski Foundation, Montricher, Switzerland
2017 :
- Sea and Fog, Oakville Galleries – Gairloch Gardens, Oakville, Canada
- Drawing album, Biblioteca Central, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
Collections (selection)
Kunstsammlung, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Written Art Collection, Ingelheim, Germany
Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates Banco de España, Spain
Museo Helga de Alvear, Caceres, Spain
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York, USA Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, USA Flag Art Foundation, New York, USA
Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, United States Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, United States
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, United States
Kadist Art Foundation San Francisco, San Francisco, United States Museum of Arts and Design, New York, United States
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, United States
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, USA New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, USA New York Public Library, New York, USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, United States
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, United States World Bank Collection, Washington, United States Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris, France
Carré d’Art – Musée d’art contemporain de Nîmes, Nimes, France Château La Coste, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Fondation Luma, Arles, France
FRAC Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
LaM, Lille métropole, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France Musée national d’Art moderne (MNAM), Paris, France Frank F. Yang Collection, Hong Kong
M+, Hong Kong
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
Jordan National Museum of Fine Arts, Amman, Jordan Dalloul Art foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Fondation Saradar, Beirut, Lebanon
Sursock Museum, Beirut, Lebanon
Mudam, Luxembourg
Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands Stedelijk museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal
Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, Qatar British Museum, London, United Kingdom
Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmö, Sweden Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Luma Foundation, Zürich, Switzerland
UBS Art Collection, Zürich, Switzerland
Birzeit University Museum, Bir Zeit, Occupied Palestinian Territory Musée National d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Tunis, Tunisia Huma Kabakcı Collection, Istanbul, Turkey
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