Rayyane Tabet

Rayyane Tabet (born 1983) is a Lebanese visual artist, known for his sculpture. He has lived and worked in both Beirut and San Francisco.

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.

Career Tabet is a visual artist, known for his sculpture. 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.

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).

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 2022 Kunstenfestivaldesarts – 27th Edition, Various locations in Brussels, Belgium 2021 Rayyane Tabet: Arabesque, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany 2020 A sun yellow with anger, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany 2018 FRAGMENTS, Sfeir-Semler Karantina, Beirut, Lebanon 2015 ONLY GODS NEVER DIE, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany 2013 The Shortest Distance Between Two Points, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon 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.