Rayyane Tabet

Rayyane Tabet, Critic in Sculpture

Rayyane Tabet is an artist and architect who lives and works between Beirut and San Francisco. Tabet received a Bachelor of Architecture from The Cooper Union in New York and a Master of Fine Art from the University of California at San Diego. Drawing from experience and self-directed research, Tabet explores stories that offer an alternative understanding of major socio-political events through individual narratives. Informed by his training in architecture and sculpture, his work investigates paradoxes in the built environment and its history by way of installations that reconstitute the perception of physical and temporal distance. In recent years, Tabet has had solo exhibitions at the MUDAM Museum, the Walker Art Center, the Sharjah Art Foundation, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Parasol Unit Foundation of Contemporary Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Louvre Museum, Carré d’Art Musée d’Art Contemporain, and at the Kunstverein Hamburg. He took part in numerous international group shows, among which the Whitney Biennial, the Yohama Triennial, the Lahore Biennial, the Sydney Biennial, Manifesta, the Istanbul Biennial, the Venice Biennial and the São Paulo Biennial.