Khalil Rabah was born in 1961 in Palestine and studied fine arts and architecture at the University of Texas. His most recent solo exhibitions span The Middle-East (Beirut Art Center, 2012), the United States (e-flux, New York, 2013); and Europe (Kunsthaus Hamburg, 2015; Casa Árabe, Madrid, 2016), in addition to major group shows, including the Venice Biennale, 2009; Mathaf, Doha, 2010; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, 2012; The Thessaloniki Biennial, 2013; The Kochi-Muziris Biennale, 2014; The Marrakech Biennale, 2016; and The Sharjah Biennial, 2017. Over the years, his work has been acquired by major institutions including MACRO, Rome; The British Museum, London; The Guggenheim, Abu Dhabi; Mathaf, Doha; Kunsthaus Zurich and The Sharjah Art Foundation.
Rabah is the initiator and artistic director of the Riwaq Biennale and a co-founder of Al Ma’mal Foundation for Contemporary Art in Jerusalem. He served on the curricular committee of Ashkal Alwan’s Home Workspace Program in Beirut, Lebanon from 2011 to 2015.
Art Exhibition, Ready Made Representations, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, Germany
50.320 Names, Brunei Gallery, London, UK
Gallery Bangnai, Siena, Italy
Selected Group Exhibitions
After the Fact. Propaganda in the 21st Century, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
The Time is Out of Joint, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE
Critical Machines, AUB Beirut, Lebanon
Essays on Geopolitics, 8th Mercosur Biennial 2011, Porto Alegre, Basilia
Told – Untold –Retold, Mathaf, Doha, Qatar
Biproduct, Mathaf, Doha, Qatar
Palestine - La creation dans tous ses états, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France
Memorial to the Iraq War, ICA, London, UK
Home works Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
Mercury in Retrograde, De Apple, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Interrupted Histories, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Nuove Acquisizioni, MACRO al Mattatoio, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy
Ten Artists Ten Years, Guest Atelier, Aarau, Switzerland
...O luna tu...ARCOS, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Sannio, Benevento, Italy
Plug In, Centre for Contemporary Art Futura, Prague, Czech Republic
Unscene, Greenwich University, London, UK
Lust Lies Art and Fashion, Podewill, Berlin, Germany
Roteiros, Roteiros, Roteiros, XXIV Biennale de São Paolo, Brazil
Every Day, Sydney Biennial, Australia