RANDA MIRZA
b. 1978Randa Mirza (born 1978) is a visual artist born in Beirut.
Her work has received numerous prizes, including les jeux de la francophonie(2005), le Prix la Photographie - Maison Blanche (2013) and the No Limit award at Les Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles (2006); an international prize for artists and photographers whose work takes the medium beyond currently acknowledged boundaries. Mirza has shown her work in solo exhibitions at the Finnish Museum of Photography, Sfeir-Semler gallery (Hamburg) and Galerie Tanit
(Beirut and Munich), with her latest solo show at Photomed festival in Beirut. She exhibited within Moving Walls (NY), Phillipes de Pury (London), FIAC (Paris), Miami Basel, Armory Show (NY), Art Dubai, Paris-Photo, Fondazione Merz (Torino), Witte de with (Rotterdam), Raster gallery (Warsaw), Kashya Hildebrand gallery (London), Fotomuseum Winterthur (Zurich), Darat al-Funun (Amman), Aleppo international photography festival (Syria), Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen- Heidelberg (Germany), Kunsthalle Wien (Vienna), ZKM museum (Germany) and at Beirut Art Center (Lebanon). Her work received grants from AFAC (Arab Fund for Art and Culture) and Al-Mawrid Al-Thaqafi, as well as a scholairship from the Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores de Mexico. She was artist resident at NIFCA (Nordic Institute for Contemporary Arts), HIAP (Finland) and at fondazione Bevilaqua La Masa (Venice).
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