Bio

Youmna Chlala is an artist and a writer born in Beirut and based in New York. Her current series The Museum of Future Memories imagines what happens when the horizon line disappears through drawing, painting, photography, sculpture and installation .

She has exhibited at the Hayward Gallery, The Drawing Center, Wanås Konst, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Dubai Art Projects, Concrete Gallery, Hessel Museum of Art, Concrete Gallery, Henie Onstad Art Center, 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 and Croatian pavilion of the 60th Biennale de Venezia . Her work has been 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 co-editor of the Spatial Species series at Coffee House Press and co-founder of the Mutating Cities Institute.