HIBA KALACHE

Born in Beirut, Lebanon, 1972
Lives between Beirut and San Francisco

EDUCATION

2005 MFA, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
1992 DEP, Metal Arts School of Montreal, Montreal, Canada.
CGA, Canadian Gemmological Association, Toronto, Canada.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 Our Dreams are a Second Life, Saleh Barakat Gallery, curated by Natasha Gasparian, Beirut, Lebanon

Encounters - ongoing, Upper Gallery, Saleh Barakat Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2018 Lemonade Everything Was So Infinite, Saleh Barakat Gallery, curated by Natasha Gasparian, Beirut, Lebanon
2012 Alternate Worlds, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon
Under a Beautiful Sky, FFA Private Bank, with The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, in collaboration with Nada Boulos El Assaad, Beirut, Lebanon

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 Lumières du Liban, Institut du Monde Arabe / Museum, Paris France, curtaed by Claude Lemand

Cities Under Quarantine, The Mailbox Project, Villa Romana, Florence, Italy

Thirty Years and Moving Forward, Saleh Barakat Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon

Menart Fair, Cornette de Saint Cyr, Paris
We Shall Continue, Open minds Charity Auction, Artscoops, curated by NadaBoulos, Beirut, Lebanon
2020 From Beirut, Art+Design scene, Piasa, Auction House, curated by Joanna Chevalier, Paris, France
2019 Go Back to move Forward, NYUAD Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE Life Beyond, Phillips Auction, London, England
Women of Resilience, Tsichritzis Art Foundation, Athens, Greece
Nothing but Flowers, Saleh Barakat Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
Out of Context, Saleh Barakat Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
The 45th Bahrain Fine Arts Exhibition, Bahrain Authority for Culture, The Kingdomof Bahrain
2018 Break All Frames, Beit Beirut, Museum and Urban Cultural Center, In collaboration with the European Union, Beirut, Lebanon
Abu Dhabi Art Fair, with Agial Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi, UAE
the horror, the horror, the horror, Harald Szeemann and the Archive, AUB Byblos Bank Art Gallery, curated by Gasparian, El Khatib, Sahakyan, and Tukan with Beatrice von Bismarck, Beirut, Lebanon
2017 Beirut Art Fair, with Saleh Barakat Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2016 Mimesis, Expression, Construction, AUB Art Galleries, Saleeby Museum, curated by Octavian Esanu
2015 HeartLand, Beirut Exhibition Center, with Joanna Chevalier and Nadine Saddi Zaccour, Beirut, Lebanon
2014 Art Dubai, with Agial Art Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2013 Syri-Arts, Auction of Art from the Middle East and Beyond, the Beirut Exhibition Center, curated by Dr. Kathy Battista, Director of Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, NY, Beirut, Lebanon
Journeys Through our Heritage, in collaboration with Janine Maamari and Marie Tomb, Beirut Exhibit Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Art Dubai 2013, with The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Dubai, UAE
Drawing Now Paris 2013, with The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Paris, France
2012 Watercolor Biennial 2012, Alfredo Guati Rojo National Watercolor Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
Seeing is Believing, Standard Chartered Auction, Dubai, UAE
Art Gwangju 2012, with The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Gwangju, South Korea
Art is the Answer!, curated by Diane Hennebert, Villa Empain, The Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium
Art Dubai 2012, with The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Dubai, UAE
2011 Rebirth, Beirut Exhibition Center, curated by Janine Maamari in cooperation with Daniele Giraudy, Beirut, Lebanon
In the Trenches, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon
2010 Slick Art Fair Paris, with The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Paris, France
Bastakiya Art Fair, with The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Dubai, UAE
Counting Thoughts, curated by Mayssa Fattouh, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon
Soft Sculpture, or The Ordinary Interpreted, The Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon
2008 Urban Jealousy, curated by Serhat Koksal and Amirali Ghasemi, Tehran Roaming International Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey; Berlin, Germany; and Belgrade, Serbia
Vital Signs, curated by Gary Sangster, Newcomb Art Gallery, Woldenberg Art Center, New Orleans
East of the West, curated by Anuradha Vikram, SomArts Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Minor Encounters, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Invadable, Cesar Chavez Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Some of These Things are Beautiful, site specific installation of the Arc Collective, Oakland, CA
Far West Students Art Exhibit, Center for Art and Public Life, Oakland, CA
Prologue and Epilogue, Blue Studio Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 Calling into the Void, curated by Nazanin Shehnasa, Works Gallery, San Jose, CA
Sweet and Spicy, curated by Glen Helfand, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
While You Were Sleeping, video collaboration with Lina Boukhary, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Graduate Open Studios, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2004 Epicenter, curated by Marilyn DaSilva Tacoah Bruce Gallery, Oliver Arts Center, Oakland, CA
Graduate Open Studios, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2003 Bon Appetit: Food for Art and Art for Food, curated by Manray Hsu, Play Space Gallery, San Francisco, CA
99 Bottles, Build Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Pin Up Show, Long Pollack Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Big Little, Oakland Craft & Cultural Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA
Exhibition in Motion, SNAG conference, sponsored by Velvet Da Vinci, Long Pollack Gallery, San Francisco, CA

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2021 Rawaa Talass, The Breakdown: the trouble with dreaming is that we eventually wake up, Arabnews.com, Web, January

Rawaa Talass, 10 Middle Eastern Artists to Discover, artsy.net, March
2020 Natasha Gaspsarian, Our Dreams are a Second Life, catalogue text, December
2019 Encounters – ongoing, ArtMargins 8.3, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
2018 Natasha Gaspsarian, Lemonade Everything Was So Infinite, catalogue text, May
Rania Jaber, Lemonade Everything Was So Infinite, catalogue text, May
Priyanka Raval, selectionsarts.com, https://selectionsarts.com/2018/06/14/hiba-kalache-lemonade-everything-was-so-infinite/, June
Georgia Beeston, The Daily Star, http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Arts-and-Ent/Culture/2018/May-18/449832-divine-inspiration-for-reimagining-paradise.ashx, May
Zena Zalzal, L’Orient-Le Jour, https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/1117080/hikalache-paradis-ambigus.html
Muriel Rozelier, lecommercedulevant.com, https://www.lecommercedulevant.com/article/28323-hiba-kalache-ou-les-flocons-du-paradis
2016 Esanu Octavian, Mimesis, Expression, Construction, AUB Saleeby Museum, catalogue text, October
On Negotiating Space and Memory, Artscoops.com, Web, September
2015 Joanna Chevalier, Heartland, Beirut Exhibit Center, catalogue text, October 2014
Muracciole Marie, Under Construction, Exposure 2014, catalogue text, December
2013 Tomb, Marie, Journeys Through Our Heritage, Solidere, Beirut Exhibit Center, 2013, p.38
2012 Thiereau, Florence. "Hiba Kalache,” Agenda Culturel, Web, February, 2012.
Kolopp, Clement. L’Orient le Jour, Web, December, 2012
Stoughton, India. "Hiba Kalache’s colorful dreams of a far better world,” The Daily Star, Web, February 4, 2012
2011 Tomb, Marie, Rebirth, Lebanon XXIst Century Contemporary Art, Solidere, Beirut Exhibit Center, 2011, p.72
2009 Mikdadi, Salwa. New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, New York: Thames & Hudson, 2009, p. 180
2005 Raza, Sara. "Calling into the Void,” ArteEast, Web, October, 2005

OTHER

2021 Project Artaud, Space 124 art residency, in conversation with Poet Stephanie Baker, San Francisco, October/ November
Saleh Barakat, The Passing of Time and Place and the Art of the Levant, Intersect Art and Design, Webseminar, February
2020 Mikdadi Salwa, Contemporary Art and the Politics of the Arab World course, guest speaker via zoom, NYU Abu Dhabi, November
Joanna Chevalier, Beirut,we care, The Art Circle, Webseminar, September
2019 Kriti Art Residency, Varanasi, India, July/ August