Biography
A Lebanese-American artist, poet and essayist, Etel Adnan wrote in French and English. She started painting in the early sixties in California. Since Documenta 13 in 2012, her work has received international recognition. In 2014, she was invited to the Whitney Biennial (New York). In the same year, the Qatar Museum of Modern Art dedicated to her a retrospective, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Since then, a great number of museums (Bern, Luxembourg, San Francisco, Aspen, Lille, Amsterdam, London, Istanbul, etc.) have devoted exhibitions to her.
Adnan’s work appears in numerous collections, including the MNAM – Centre Pompidou, Paris; Mathaf, Doha, Qatar; MoMA, New York; M+, Hong Kong; Royal Jordanian Museum, Amman; MACAM 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.; San Francisco MOMA; Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
