Born in Beirut in 1980, Alfred Tarazi is a multidisciplinary Lebanese artist whose work spans painting, photography, drawing, digital collage, sculpture and installation. A graduate of the American University of Beirut, where he received a degree in Graphic Design in 2004, Tarazi has developed a practice that interrogates memory, history, and the archives of Lebanon’s recent past.
In 2011, Tarazi completed a residency at Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, which led to a series of solo exhibitions with Galerie Krinzinger, including The Senseless Realm (2015). In Beirut, his long-standing collaboration with UMAM Documentation and Research has produced large-scale projects such as Memory of a Paper City (2010, 2015, 2019), which reimagined the city’s lost archives through immersive installations. In 2024, Hymne à l’Amour drew on his family’s centuries-old craft heritage to create monumental sculptural environments from woodwork, copper, and decorative panels. His most recent solo exhibitions include The Widows (2025, Blue Rose, Beirut) and A Nation’s Inflation (2022, Venice).
Alongside his individual practice, Tarazi has worked extensively with the artist and architect collective SIGIL. Through this collaboration, his work has been presented in significant international platforms such as the Venice Biennale of Architecture (2014), the Oslo Architecture Triennale (2016), the XXII Triennale di Milano, Broken Nature (2019), Sharjah Biennial 14 (2017), and CCS Bard Galleries, New York (2017). His practice has also been included in cultural initiatives across Europe and the Middle East, including exhibitions at the Sursock Museum, Beirut, and Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna.
Tarazi has been the recipient of several distinctions, including the Lebanese Diaspora Prize (2010), the Sovereign Art Prize (2016), the Lokman Slim Prize (2023), and the Prince Claus Fund’s Moving Narratives award (2024).
His works are held in the collections of the Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation (Beirut), the British Museum (London), the Museum of Modern Art (New York), and the Imago Mundi Collection, among others.
