Lamia Joreigeis a visual artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Beirut. She earned her BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, where she studied painting and filmmaking. She uses archival documents and elements of fiction to reflect on history and its possible narration, and on the relationship between individual stories and collective memory. Her practice, rooted in her country’s experience, explores the possibilities of representing the Lebanese wars and their aftermath, particularly in Beirut, a city at the center of her imagery. Her work is essentially on time, the recordings of its trace, and its effects on us.
Joreige’s artworks, which include drawings, paintings, sculptures and large scale multimedia installations, have been presented internationally in various exhibitions and venues, among which: the 25th Biennale of Sydney (2026); the 17th Istanbul Biennial (2022); the Biennial Internacional de Arte de Tenerife (2024); The Berlin Biennial (2022); the Liverpool Biennial (2018); Sharjah Biennial (2017, 2013, 2009); Venice Biennial (Lebanese pavilion, 2007); Centre Pompidou; Tate Modern; Serpentine Gallery; the New Museum; the San Francisco Museum of Modern; MAXXI, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo; Mathaf (Qatar); Harvard University’s Radcliffe Institute and Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts; the International Center of Photography; Cardiff National Museum; Arter (Turkey); Musée Nicéphore Niépce; le 104 (Paris); Taymour Grahne Gallery; and Marfa gallery in Lebanon.
She has written, directed and produced various short essay-films and one feature narrative, which were presented infestivals and venues among which: Berlinale (Forum Expanded); Cinéma du Réel; Medfilm Festival, Rome (Awarded Best film); FID Marseille; Les Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin; Paris Cinema; The Mediterranean Festival of Cinema, Montpellier; Home Works I, IV & VII (Ashkal Alwan); Festival du film libanais and Beirut Cinema Days in Beirut.
Her work is part of public and private collections across the world, such as Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah; MATHAF, Doha; Ars Aevi Collection for Sarajevo Contemporary Art Museum, Sarajevo; Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Saône; Fonds régional d’art contemporain Bretagne; Banque Libano-Française, Saradar Collection and Bank Audi, Beirut.
Lamia Joreige will be a fellow at Bellagio Center Residency (Rockefeller Foundation) in September 2026. She was a fellow at the Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris (Columbia University) in 2021, and a fellow at The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study (Harvard University) in 2016–2017. She is a co-founder and board member of Beirut Art Center, which she co-directed from 2009 to 2014.