Hrair Sarkissian

♂ *1973 / Syrian Arab Republic

Works

Solo exhibitions

The Presence of Absence

Fotografisk Center, Copenhagen (DK)
23 Mar 2024 – 19 May 2024
The Other Side of Silence

Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht (NL)
29 Nov 2022 – 14 May 2023
The Other Side of Silence

Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (SE)
27 Apr 2022 – 19 Jun 2022
Focus

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth (US)
24 Jan 2020 – 15 Mar 2020
Homesick

Kadist Art Foundation SF, San Francisco (US)
8 Mar 2017 – 6 May 2017
Ici, Ailleurs

Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille (FR)
12 Jan 2013 – 31 Mar 2013
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Podbielski Contemporary, Berlin (DE)
24 Sep 2011 – 5 Nov 2011

Group

Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2024

Deutsche Börse, Eschborn (DE)
13 Jun 2024 – 22 Sep 2024

with Valie Export, Gauri Gill, Lebohang Kganye
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2024

Photographers' Gallery, London (GB)
23 Feb 2024 – 2 Jun 2024

with Valie Export, Gauri Gill, Lebohang Kganye
WORLD CLASSROOM

Contemporary Art through School Subjects

Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (JP)
19 Apr 2023 – 24 Sep 2023

with Johanna Billing, Luke Ching, Manon de Boer, Sam Falls, Fischli & Weiss, Shilpa Gupta, Naoya Hatakeyama, Aziz Hazara, Susan Hiller, Yee I-Lann, Christian Jankowski, Tomoko Maezawa …
OLTRE LO SGUARDO

Podbielski Contemporary, Milano (IT)
22 Mar 2022 – 13 May 2022

with Silvia Camporesi, Marina Caneve, Augusto Cantamessa, Fabrizio Ceccardi, Giulio di Sturco, Massimiliano Gatti , Gail Albert Halaban, Thomas Jorion, Andreas Lang, Ohad Matalon, Beatrice Minda, Lori Nix …
Trembling Landscapes

Between Reality and Fiction

Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam (NL)
19 Sep 2020 – 3 Jan 2021

with Jananne Al-Ani, Heba Y. Amin, Ali Cherri, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Larissa Sansour, Wael Shawky
The Warmth of Other Suns: Stories of Global Displacement

The Phillips Collection, Washington (US)
22 Jun 2019 – 22 Sep 2019

with Erkan Oezgen, Adel Abdessemed, Chantal Akerman, John Akomfrah, Francis Alys, Pawel Althamer, Guillermo Arias, Kader Attia, Yto Barrada, Andrea Bowers, Tania Bruguera, Beverly Buchanan …
Inhabiting the Mediterranean

IVAM Institut d'Art Modern, Valencia (ES)
29 Nov 2018 – 14 Apr 2019

with Kader Attia, Ismail Bahri, Jose Manuel Ballester, Gabriele Basilico, Taysir Batniji, Ali Cherri, Jordi Colomer, Dora Garcia, Richard Hamilton, Susan Hefuna, Camille Henrot, Yazan Khalili …
MOVING WORLDS II

Podbielski Contemporary, Milano (IT)
13 Sep 2018 – 27 Mar 2019

with Shadi Ghadirian, Leonora Hamill, Francesco Jodice, Thomas Jorion, Andreas Lang, Ohad Matalon, Beatrice Minda, Agnese Purgatorio, Noga Shtainer, Dubravka Vidovic, Won Seoung Won, Yuval Yairi
IN THE STILL OF THE NIGHT

FOTOHOF, Salzburg (AT)
10 Aug 2018 – 29 Sep 2018

with Edmund Clark, Goeran Gnaudschun, Anne Heinlein, Jelena Juresa, Ahlam Shibli
THE RESTLESS EARTH

Palazzo della Triennale, Milano (IT)
28 Apr 2017 – 20 Aug 2017

with Adel Abdessemed, John Akomfrah, Francis Alys, Pawel Althamer, Ziad Antar, Kader Attia, Yto Barrada, Andrea Bowers, Tania Bruguera, Banu Cennetoglu, Phil Collins, Rokni Haerizadeh …
10 years old

Decennial exhibition of the Fondazione Fotografia Modena

FMAV - Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena (IT)
11 Mar 2017 – 30 Apr 2017

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Olivo Barbieri, Yto Barrada, Gabriele Basilico, Walter Chappell, Franco Fontana, Samuel Fosso, Robert Frank, Luigi Ghirri, David Goldblatt …
10th Bamako Encounters, Biennial of African Photography

TELLING TIME

Maison Africaine Photo, Bamako (ML)
31 Oct 2015 – 31 Dec 2015

with Hela Ammar, Joel Andrianomearisoa, Ismail Bahri, Steeve Bauras, Khalfa Besma Djemila, Filipe Branquinho, Seydou Camara, Mimi Cherono Ng Ok, Emmanuel Bakary Daou, Monica de Miranda, Bakary Diallo, Em'Kal Eyongakpa …
To What End?

Camera Austria, Graz (AT)
27 Sep 2015 – 22 Nov 2015

with Heba Y. Amin, Takashi Arai, Mohamed Bourouissa, Vangelis Vlahos
The Venice Biennale - 56th International Art Exhibition

All the World's Futures

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
9 May 2015 – 22 Nov 2015

with Jumana Emil Abboud, Adel Abdessemed, Mathieu Kleyebe Abonnenc, Abounaddara, Boris Achour, Chantal Akerman, John Akomfrah, Kutluğ Ataman, Maja Bajevic, Ernesto Ballesteros, Sammy Baloji, Rosa Barba …
Aikaterini Gegisian & Hrair Sarkissian

Venice Biennale - AM, Venezia (IT)
6 May 2015 – 3 Nov 2015

with Aikaterini Gegisian
Conflict, Time, Photography.

Museum Folkwang, Essen (DE)
10 Apr 2015 – 5 Jul 2015

with Indre Serpytyte, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin, Jules Andrieu, Pierre Antony-Thouret, Nobuyoshi Araki, George N. Barnard, Margaret Bourke-White, Frank Breuer, Rene Burri, Hermann Claasen, Luc Delahaye, Chloe Dewe Mathews …
BREAKING NEWS 2011-2014

Podbielski Contemporary, Berlin (DE)
5 Feb 2014 – 15 Mar 2014

with Shadi Ghadirian, Leonora Hamill, Francesco Jodice, Thomas Jorion, Ohad Matalon, Leandro Quintero, Dubravka Vidovic
Power! Photos! Freedom!

FOMU Fotomuseum Antwerp, Antwerp (BE)
15 Feb 2013 – 9 Jun 2013

with Marco Bohr, Florian Göttke, Nermine Hammam, Mosireen, Nicolas Righetti, Issa Touma, Uprising of Women in the Arab World, Joachim Ben Yakoub
Facing Mirrors

Museum of Photography, Thessaloníki (GR)
20 Sep 2011 – 3 Mar 2012

with Yasser Alwan, Gilbert Hage, Youssef Nabil, Raed Yassin
Facing mirrors

Museum of Photography, Thessaloníki (GR)
18 Sep 2011 – 3 Nov 2011

with Yasser Alwan, Gilbert Hage, Youssef Nabil, Raed Yassin
Sharjah Biennial 10

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
16 Mar 2011 – 16 May 2011

with Jumana Emil Abboud, Hala Alani, Ziad Antar, Atfal Ahdath (Vartan Avakian, Hatem Imam & Raed Yassin), Yto Barrada, Judith Barry, Bahar Behbahani, Ammar Bouras, Jem Cohen, Trisha Donnelly, Harun Farocki, Mariam Ghani …
Sharjah Biennial 10

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
16 Mar 2011 – 16 May 2011

with Jumana Emil Abboud, Hala Alani, Ziad Antar, Atfal Ahdath (Vartan Avakian, Hatem Imam & Raed Yassin), Yto Barrada, Judith Barry, Bahar Behbahani, Ammar Bouras, Jem Cohen, Trisha Donnelly, Harun Farocki, Mariam Ghani …
Breaking News

FMAV - Palazzina dei Giardini, Modena (IT)
27 Nov 2010 – 13 Mar 2011

with Philip Kwame Apagya, Yto Barrada, Yael Bartana, Taysir Batniji, Jodi Bieber, Mounir Fatmi, Samuel Fosso, David Goldblatt, Bob Gosani, Pieter Hugo, Goddy Leye, Daniel Naude …

Events

Aichi Triennale 2025

A Time Between Ashes and Roses

The Aichi Triennale, Aichi (JP)
13 Sep 2025 – 30 Nov 2025

with John Akomfrah, Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme, Priyageetha Dia, Mohammed Kazem, Robert Zhao Renhui, Silvia Rivas, Hiroshi Sugimoto
21st Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil

IMAGINED COMMUNITIES

Videobrasil , São Paulo (BR)
10 Oct 2019 – 2 Feb 2020

with Marila Dardot, Jonathas de Andrade, Köken Ergun, Nilbar Gueres, Ahmad Ghossein, Gabriela Golder, Hiwa K, Federico Lamas, Teresa Margolles, Omar Mismar, Mohau Modisakeng, Aykan Safoğlu …
Artissima 2019

ARTissima, Torino (IT)
1 Nov 2019 – 3 Nov 2019

with Darren Almond, Joel Andrianomearisoa, Vasco Araujo, Francesco Arena, Rosa Barba, Yto Barrada, Robert Barry, Taysir Batniji, Vanessa Beecroft, John Bock, Botto & Bruno, Rae di Martino …
Sharjah Biennial 14

Leaving the Echo Chamber

Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (AE)
7 Mar 2019 – 10 Jun 2019

with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Sophia Al-Maria, Marwa Arsanios, Leo Asemota, Ursula Biemann, Hannah Black, Mohamed Bourouissa, Candice Breitz, Adriana Bustos, Ian Cheng, Christopher Cozier, Shezad Dawood …
Brighton Photo Biennal 2018

Brighton Photo Biennal, Brighton (GB)
28 Sep 2018 – 28 Oct 2018

with Heather Agyepong, Bill Brandt, Tereza Cervenova, Aikaterini Gegisian, Emeric Lhuisset, Robin Maddock, Harley Weir, Donovan Wylie
2017 Asian Art Biennial

Negotiating the Future - <a href="http://www.asianartbiennial.org" target="_blank">www.asianartbiennial.org/</a>

National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taipei (TW)
30 Sep 2017 – 25 Feb 2018

with Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Lara Baladi, Chim-Pom, Bouchra Khalili, Meiro Koizumi, Kelvin Kyung Kun Park, Kawita Vatanajyankur
2016 International UrbanPhotoFest (UPF)

Photography, Memory and Archive

UrbanPhotoFest, London (GB)
3 Nov 2016 – 8 Nov 2016

with Tiong Ang, Tanya Houghton, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Rut Blees Luxemburg
Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize 2024

shortlist

Deutsche Börse, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)

with Valie Export, Gauri Gill, Lebohang Kganye