- bio
- Youmna Chlala is an artist and writer born in Beirut, Lebanon. Her work investigates the relationship between fate and architecture through drawing, video, books, installation and performance. She received her MFA at the California College of the Arts where she was also the Founding Editor of Eleven Eleven {1111} Journal of Literature and Art. She has exhibited and performed her work in the US & Canada, the Arab World and Europe; and at the San Jose Museum of Art, Berkeley Art Museum, National Arab American Museum and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. She participated in the roaming Tehran Biennale and read her fiction for the NPR project at the 2008 Whitney Biannual. She has received residencies and fellowships at the Headlands Center for the Arts, CAMAC: Center for Art and Technology, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Triangle Arts Fund via AIWA and Makan House, the Goethe-Institut and the European Cultural Fund. She is currently visiting faculty at the Pratt Institute in New York.
