Walid Raad

Walid Raad is a contemporary Lebanese artist, currently based in New York where he is currently an associate professor at the Cooper Union School of Art.
Raad also founded The Atlas Group in 1999, an imaginary foundation whose objective is to research and document Lebanon‘s contemporary history. The Altas Group is primarily presented through lectures that include films, photography exhibitions, videos, and a variety of documents from the group‘s archives which contain authored, found, and newly produced files. More recently, certain sections of the archive have been the object of a number of installations in museum spaces.