Yto Barrada
- Yto Barrada
- Work
Le Grand Soir, MoMAPS1, New York, 2024
Yto Barrada was born in 1971 in Paris but grew up in Tangier, Morocco. She studied history and political science at the Sorbonne and photography in New York.
The Moroccan artist works over a wide range of media including photography, sculpture, installations, textile, and video. Her extensive series and project-based practice is rooted in the culture, landscape, economy and politics of her hometown of Tangiers, Morocco. She is the founder of Cinémathèque de Tanger, a cultural center that has become a landmark institution bringing the Moroccan community together to celebrate local and international cinema.
Barrada’s work has won numerous awards including the 2022 Mario Merz Prize, 2019 Roy R. Neuberger Prize, 2016 Tiger Award for short film and a nomination for the 2016 Prix Marcel Duchamp in Paris, the 2015 Abraaj Group Art Prize and the 2011 Deutsche Guggenheim Artist of the Year award.
Barrada’s work has been shown in, and held in the collections of, major museums around the world including the Metropolitan Museum (New York), Tate Modern (London), MoMA (New York), Guggenheim (Berlin), Renaissance Society (Chicago), Wiels Art Center (Brussels), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Museo de Sao Paolo, and the 2007 & 2011 Venice Biennales. She held solo exhibitions at the Barbican Center (London), The Power Plant (Toronto), the Secession (Vienna), M Museum (Leuven), the Serralves Museum (Porto) and Carré d’Art (Nimes).
| Selected Solo Exhibitions | |
| 2024 | Fondazione Merz Prize, Fondazione Merz, Turin, Italy (forthcoming) Part-Time Abstractionist, International Center of Photography, New York, USA Le Grand Soir, MoMAPS1, New York, USA |
| 2023 | Bad Color Combos, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany Solidité lumière, Césure – Plateau urbain, Festival d'Automne, Paris, France Balcon Bettina, Immanence – Centre d'art, Festival d'Automne, Paris, France |
| 2022 | Bad Color Combos, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 2021 | Artist's Choice: Yto Barrada–A Raft, Museum of Modern Art MoMA, New York, USA Yto Barrada: Ways to Baffle the Wind, MASS MoCA, North Adams, USA |
| 2020 | Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Germany My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nougat, MATHAF: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Qatar |
| 2019 | Paste Papers, Pace Library, New York, USA Yto Barrada with guest artist Bettina: The Power of Two Suns, LMCC’s Arts Center at Governor’s Island, New York, USA The Dye Garden, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, USA Double Skin, Casa Luis Barragan, Mexico City, Mexico Moi je suis la langue et vous êtes les dents, Calouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, Portugal |
| 2018 | Agadir, The Curve, Barbican, London, United Kingdom The Dye Garden, American Academy in Rome, Italy Yto Barrada: Klaatu Barrada Nikto, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA |
| 2016 | Faux Guide, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon YTO BARRADA, Tabakalera, Donostia / San Sebastián, France The Sample Book, Secession Vienna, Austria YTO BARRADA, M Leuven, Belgium Faux Guide, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada |
| 2015 | Carré d'Art, Nîmes, France The Abraaj Group Art Prize, Art Dubai, UEA Salon Marocain, The Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal Faux Guide, Pace Gallery, London, United Kingdom |
| 2014 | Before Our Eyes: Other Cartographies of the Rif, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain PARLE POUR TOI, Marian Goodman, Paris, France |
| 2013 | La courte echelle, Sfeir-Semler Gallery Hamburg, Germany An Album: Cinématheque Tangier, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA |
| Yto Barrada, Studio Cinema, Marseille, France | |
| 2012 | Riffs, MACRO Museum, Rome, Italy Riffs, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, United Kingdom Riffs, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA Riffs, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland |
| 2011 | Riffs, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany Riffs, Wiels, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2010 | Play, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon Yto Barrada, Centre de la Photographie Genève, Switzerland A Modest Proposal, L’Appartement 22, Rabat, Morocco |
| 2009 | Yto Barrada and Hala Elkoussy, Göteborgs Konsthall, Goteborg, Sweden |
| 2007 | Iris Tingitana, la botanique du pouvoir, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France Iris Tingitana, la botanique du pouvoir, Galerie of Marseille, Marseille, France |
| 2006 | A Life Full of Holes - The Strait Project, The Kitchen, New York, USA Jeu de Paume - Site Sully, Paris, France A Life Full of Holes - The Strait Project, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, United Kingdom |
| 2005 | A Life Full of Holes - The Strait Project, Mead Gallery, Warwick Arts Center, USA |
| 2004 | A Life Full of Holes - The Strait Project, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| 2003 | A Life Full of Holes - The Strait Project, Galerie Polaris, Paris, France |
| 2001 | A Life Full of Holes - The Strait Project, Galerie Delacroix, Tangier, Morocco |
Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2024 | Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Barbican, London, United Kingdom Unravel: The Power and Politics of Textiles in Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (forthcoming) |
| 2023 | Avant-Garde and Liberation. Contemporary Art and Decolonial Modernism, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria Choreographies of the Impossible, 35th Bienal De São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Permanent Collection on display, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Permanent Collection on display, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom Bettina: The Fifth Point of the Compass, CSS Bard, New York, USA Universitätsgalerie der Angewandten, Vienna, Austria |
| 2022 | Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It's Kept, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA Mario Merz Prize 4.Ed_The finalists exhibition, fondazione merz, Turino, Italy LOVE, Palácio Duques de Cadaval, Evora, Portugal Based on a True Story. . ., Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, United States A Drawing Made with Stones, Studio Fotokino, Marseille, France L'Art d'apprendre. Une école des créateurs, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France Sculpting Reality. Per Amor a l’Art Collection, Círculo de Bellas Artes and Casa de América, Madrid, Spain Shifting Dialogues: Photography from The Walther Collection, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, K21, Düsseldorf, Germany Bettina. A poem of perpetual renewal, Salle Henri-Comte, Arles, France |
| 2021 | Moroccan Trilogy, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain Enjoy - die mumok Sammlung im Wandel, mumok, Wien, Austria |
| 2020 | Global(e) Resistance, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Faces: a Look at the Other, Carré d’Art, Nîmes, France Mappa mundi, Fondation Boghossian, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium Among the Trees, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom Fragmenter le monde / Our world is burning, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France Botanicals, Bombas Gens Centre D'Art, Valencia, Spain between the sun and the moon, Lahore Biennale 02, Pakistan |
| 2019 | When Home Won’t Let You Stay, ICA Boston, USA Narcisse ou la floraison des mondes, FRAC Nouvelle-Aquitaine Méca, Bordeaux Collection 1970s - Present: Surface Tensions, MoMA, New York, USA Words Are Very Unnecessary, Arter, Istanbul, Turkey The Warmth of Other Suns, The Phillips Collection in partnership with the New Museum, New York, USA |
| 2018 | Platforms: Collection and Commissions, Walker Art Center, Minnesota, USA; 12th Gwangju Biennale: Imagined Borders, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea The Geological Show, Villa Sauber, New National Museum of Monaco |
| 2017 | I am you, you are too, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2017-2019), USA NOW, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Performa 17 Biennial, New York, USA La Vie simple - Simplement la vie/Songs of Alienation, Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France The Thickness of Time, Locus Athens, Greece The Restless Earth, La Triennale di Milano, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milano A thousand beasts that roar. Display devicesfor a critical modernity, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain |
| 2016 | What People Do for Money: Some Joint Ventures, Manifesta 11, Zürich, Switzerland Not New Now, Marrakech Biennale 6, Marrakech, Morocco Playgrounds, MASP São Paulo, Brazil Between Myth and Fright. The Mediterranean as conflict, Institut Valencia d'art Modern, Valencia, Spain Prix Marcel Duchamp, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France |
| 2015 | Gallery 3010, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon Liberated Subjects: Present Tense,Lijnen, Brussels Patrimone, Tangier, Morocco Silvia Geddes Studio, Rome, Italy Salon Marocain, Serravles, Porto, Portugal 19th Conetmporary Art Festival, SESC, VideoBrasil, São Paolo Highline, New York, USA La Vie Moderne, Biennale, Lyon, France When there is hope, Phototriennale 2015, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany Poetics of Relation, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, USA Atoplois - WIELS @ MONS2015, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium Liberated Subjects: Present Tense, Foundation De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium playing future, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany Crossovers - A Filmic Exploration Of History, Stories And Human Remains, Art Hub, Shanghai, China |
| 2014 | Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, New York, USA El Teatro del Mundo, Museo Tamayo, Oaxaca, Mexico Colonia apocrifa, MUSAC - Museo Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain Before Our Eyes: Other Cartographies of the Rif, David Roberts Art Foundation, Paris, France Inventer le possible, Vidéothèque éphémère 2, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France A History - Art, Architecture, Design from 1980s Until Today, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France |
| 2013 | PRIVATE, Progetto di otto mostre, Studio Geddes, Rome, Italy L’Œil Photographique , FRAC - Fonds régional d'art contemporary Auvergne, Clemont-Ferrand, France Ici ailleurs, La Belle de Mai, Marseille, France Casablanca - Chandigarh, Centre Canadien D’Architecture, Montreal, Canada Provincetown International Film Festival, Cape Code, USA 13th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Tukey The Spirit of Utopia, Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom If You Were Here To Live Here, Auckland Triennial, Auckland, Australia Das Kind, die Stadt und die Kunst, Schmela Haus, Düsseldorf, Germany Cross-border - Contemporary Female Artists from the Arabian Mediterranean Region, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 2012 | Fiac Hors les Murs - Jardin des Plantes, Musée d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, France Conditions of a Moment, Hordaland Art Center, Bergen, Norway Light from the Middle East, Victora & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom Fruits de la Passion, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA Six Lines of Flight: Geographies in Contemporary Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA Survival Techniques: Narratives of Resistance, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA Mind of System - Find the Gap, House for Contemporary Art, Hasselt, Belgium Level 2 Gallery. I decided not to save the world, Tate Modern, London, England Bleibender Wert? Haltbarkeit und Verfall kritischer Publizistik. Kooperation "springerin", Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria Abstract Possible: The Stockholm Synergies, Tensta Konsthall, ga, Sweden Marrakech Biennial, Morocco Intense Proximité, Photo Triennial, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France |
| 2011 | The Future of a Promise - 54th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy The World belongs to you, Palazzo Grassi - Francoise Pinault Foundation, Venice, Italy 10. Sharjah Biennial, UAE Illuminations, - 54th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy Until it makes sense, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France Mapping Subjectivitiy, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Hauntings - Ghost Box Media, Kunstverein Medienturm Graz, Austria You have been there - departs, bifurcations, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA The Global Contemporary. Kunstwelten nach 1989, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany |
| 2010 | Uneven Geographies, Art and Globalisation, Notthingham Contemporary, United Kingdom Studio Harlem New York, USA Marrakesh à Palerme, Une proposition pour l'articulation d'oeuvres et de lieux, Riso museo d'arte contemporanea della Sicilia, Palermo, Italy The Future of Tradition - the Tradition of Future, Zukunft der Tradition, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany |
| 2009 | Disorientation II, Abu Dhabi, UAE MAC/VAL Musée d’Art Contemporain Val-de-Marne, France Dress Codes : The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York, USA Une proposition pour l’Articulation d’oeuvres et de lieux, 3e édition, Biennale Internationale, AIM Festival Marrakesh, Morocco Project Europa : Imagining the (Im)Possible, Harn Museum of Art Florida Project Europa, USA elles@centrepompidou, Musée national d’art moderne/Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Face of our Time, SFMoMA, San Francisco, USA Continental Rifts : Contemporary Time-Based Works of Africa, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, USA Transmission Interrupted, Modern Art Oxford, United Kingdom Art Dubai, BIDOUN, Dubai, UAE |
| 2008 | Passageworks, curated by Tara Mc Dowell, MOMA San Francisco, USA Éclats de frontières, Frac P.A.C.A Marseille, France All-Inclusive, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany Face of our Time, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA Réflechir le Monde, Centrale Electrique, Bruxelles Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Snap judgements, Memphis Brooks Art Museum, Memphis, USA University of California Art Gallery, San Diego, USA Snap Judgments, New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Mediterraneo 2008, Perna Foundation, Ravello, Italy |
| 2007 | Less Roses, Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon Galerie of Marseille, Marseille, France Think with the Senses - Feel with the Mind, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy The Maghreb Connection Movements of Life Across North Africa, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland Africa Remix, Johannesburg Art Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa Brave New Worlds, Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, USA |
| 2006 | The Unhomely, BIACS Seville Biennial, Seville, Spain Cinémathèque de Tanger, Photographers’ Gallery, London, United Kingdom Maghreb Connection, TownHouse Gallery, Cairo, Egypt Snap Judgments: New Positions in Contemporary African Photography, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada Juicios instantáneos. Nuevas posiciones en la fotografía contemporánea, Museo Tamayo, Oaxaca, Mexico Africa Remix, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan Africa Remix, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2005 | Meeting Point, Stenersen Museum, Oslo, Norway Premieres, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Africa Remix, Hayward Gallery, London, United Kingdom Snap Judgements, International Center of Photography, New York, USA Africa Remix, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France |
| 2004 | Africa Remix, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany Climats, cyclothymie des paysage, Centre National d’Art, Vassivières, France Fabriques de l’Image, Villa Médicis, Rome, Italy Tour-ismos, Fundacio Antoni Tapiès, Barcelona, Spain |
| 2003 | Travelling, commissaire Brigitte Ollier, C.P.I.F, Pontault-Combault, France Strangers : First Triennial Exhibition of Photography and Video, ICP, New York, USA Global Detail, Noorderlicht Foto Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Centre Culturel Français, Torino, Italy Le Maroc Contemporain, H+M Hedendaags Marokko, Antwerp, The Netherlands Un Quintet pour Demain, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France |
| 2002 | Biennale de Turin BIG 2002, Fondation Pistoletto, Torino, Italy Akademie Schloss Solitude (sur invitation de Catherine David), Stuttgart, Germany in capital letters, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland Observatorio # 1, Casa Camouflage, (Curator Simon Njami), Brussels L’Imaginaire National, Centre Régional de la Photographie, Cherbourg-Octeville, France |
| 2001 | Des territoires, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France |
| 1999 | Afriques, Musée de la Photographie, Charleroi, France Palestine in Progress, Galerie Nikki Diana Marquardt, Paris, France Temps du Maroc, Le Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France |
| 1999 | Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France |
Awards | |
| 2022 | Mario Merz Prize IV Edition |
| 2019 | Recipient Roy R. Neuberger Prize |
| 2016 | Best Short Film Tiger Award at the Rotterdam Film Festival for FAUX DEPART/FALSE START |
| 2014 | Abraaj Group Art Prize, UAE |
| 2013 | Robert Gardner, Harvard University Peabody Fellowship in Photography |
| 2011 | Künstler des Jahres 2011 / Artist of the Year 2011, Deutsche Bank |
| 2006 | Recipient Ellen Auerbach Scholarship, Academy of Arts, Berlin Finalist for Deutsche Börse Prize Nominee Rolex Award |
Public Collections | |
| MoMA, U.S.A.; Guggenheim, U S.A.; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland;Tate Modern, U.K.; Centre Georges Pompidou, France; FoundationWalther, U.S.A.; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung LudwigWien,Austria; Caisse des dépôts et consignations, France; International Center of Photography, U.S.A.; Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, France; Musée de la Photographie Charleroi, France; Cinémathèque deTanger, Morocco, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal. | |