Bio

Youmna Chlala is an artist and a writer born in Beirut and is based in New York. Her current series of works is entitled The Museum of Future Memories. The drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures and installations imagine what will happen when the horizon line disappears.

She has exhibited at the Hayward Gallery, The Drawing Center, Art In General, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Henie Onstad Art Center, Dubai Art Projects, Concrete Gallery, Hessel Museum of Art, Concrete Gallery, Fridman Gallery and MAK Center for Art and Architecture. She participated in the 33rd Bienal de Sao Paulo, LIAF Biennial in Norway, and 11th Performa Biennial. Her work has been reviewed or featured in Ocula, Frieze, Canvas, BOMB, Hyperallergic, Kunstkritikk, ARTnews and more. Her writing has received an O. Henry Award and a Joseph Henry Jackson Award.

Chlala is the author The Paper Camera, a book of poetry and photography (Litmus Press). She is also co-editor of the Spatial Species series at Coffee House Press and co-founder of the Mutating Cities Institute.