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Join us for a coversation with Rania Matar about her new photography book. Rania is a Lebanese/Palestinian/American portrait and fine art photographer. She photographs the daily lives of girls and women in the Middle East and in the United States.

About the Author

Rania Matar was born and raised in Lebanon and moved to the U.S. in 1984. As a Lebanese-born American woman and mother, her cross-cultural experience and personal narrative inform her photography. 

Matar’s work has been widely exhibited in museums worldwide, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Carnegie Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, and more. It is part of the permanent collections of several museums, institutions, and private collections. A mid-career retrospective of her work was recently on view at the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, and at the American University of Beirut Museum.

Matar received a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2017 Mellon Foundation artist-in-residency grant, 2011 Griffin Museum of Photography Legacy Award, and was honored with Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowships in 2021, 2011 and 2007. In 2008 she was a finalist for the Foster Award at the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, with an accompanying solo exhibition. 

 She has published four books: 

L’Enfant-Femme, 2016; A Girl and Her Room, 2012; Ordinary Lives, 2009.

 Her most recent book, SHE, published by Radius Books is being released in the fall of 2021.