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Mouna Karray
Born in 1970 in Sfax, Tunisia, Karray studied art and culture in Tunis before moving to Tokyo to complete an MA specialising in photography at the Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics and Arts in 2002. Currently living and working between Paris and Sfax, Karray merges socio-political themes with personal experience to explore constructions of identity and memory.
2001
Master's Degree in Image Media, Tokyo Institute of Polytechnics and Arts, Tokyo, Japan.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
Off the air, opening exhibition, Zeitz MOCCA, Cape Town, South Africa.
2016
Nobody Will Talk About Us, Tyburn Gallery, London, UK .
2011
Murmurer, Galerie El Marsa, Tunis, Tunisia.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
L'Afrique n'est pas une île, Fondation Zinsou, Cotonou, Bénin
L'Afrique n'est pas une île, MACCAL. Marrakech, Maroc.
"Un Air de Famille, parce que les fantômes disparaissent au lever du jour", Centre H2M à Bourg en Bresse, France.
"Lieux de nulle part", Ghaya gallery, Sidi Bou Saïd, Tunisie.
Kerkennah #01,1ère édition du Festival International de Photographie, Kerkennah, Tunisie.
2017
Deuxième biennale des photographes du monde arabe, Institut du monde arabe, Paris, France.
Matza, Musée national du Bardo, Tunis, Tunisia.
Afriques Capitale, Le mois de la photo du Grand Paris, Parc de la Villette, Paris
2016
Dak'Art 2016: The 12th Biennale of Contemporary African Art, Dakar, Senegal
D'une Méditerranée, l'autre, FRAC Marseille et Hôtel des Arts, Toulon
2015
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Hell, Purgatory from the Perspective of Contemporary African, Simithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC, USA.
Broken English, Tyburn Gallery, London, UK.
Visible Invisible, Fondation Blachère, Aix en Provence, France.
2014
The Divine Comedy, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, USA.
The Divine Comedy, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany.
Africa Big Change Big Chance, Triennale di Milano, Milano, Italy.
The Sea is my Land, Triennale di Milano, Milano, Italy.
Africaines, 15 femmes en création, Fondation Attijariwafabank, Casablanca, Morocco.
2013
The Sea is my Land, MAXXI, Rome, Italy.
Ici, ailleurs, Friche la Belle de Mai, Tour-Panorama, Marseille, France.
The Bamako Encounters, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal.
Bright Future Contemporary Art from Tunisia, Ifa Gallery Stuttgart, Germany.
Parce que c'est blanc, parce que c'est noir et bien d'autres choses encores, Galerie 127, Marrakech, Morocco.
2012
Come Together London, Edge of Arabia. Old Truman Brewery, London, UK.
Bright Futur Contemporary Art from Tunisia, Ifa Gallery Berlin, Germany.
Dream City, 3rd edition, Sfax, Tunis, Tunisia.
The Bamako Encounters, BOZAR , Bruxelles, Belgium.
Chkoun Ahna, Musée National de Carthage, Tunisia.
Dégagement… La Tunisie un an après, Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France.
2011
The 9th African Encounters of Photography, Bamako, Mali.
2010
A Useful Dream, BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium.
Picha, Image Encounters, Lubumbashi, Congo.
L'autre bord #1, Galerie des grands bains douches, Marseille, France.
2009
Photoquai, musée du quai Branly, Paris, France.
Spot on Bamako 2007, IFA gallery, Stuttgart, Germany.
Women of images, snatches of intimacy, French Cultural Centre of Beyrouth, Lebanon.
2008
Spot on Bamako 2007, IFA gallery, Berlin, Germany.
The Winter Show, Afronova Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Thirtieth Biennale of Art on Pontevedra, Spain.
Women of Images, Espace Landowski, Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
Regards des photographes arabes contemporains, National Museum of Contemporary Art of Algiers, Algeria.
2007
Women of Images, Snatches of Intimacy, Cultures, France.
The 7th African Encounters of Photography, Bamako, Mali.
2006
The Revealed Image, Museum of Tunis-Kheireddine Palace, Tunisia.
RESIDENCES
2017 Matza, Kerkennah, Tunisia.
Centre Daïmôn, Gatineau, Québec, Canada.
2012 Dream City, 3rd Edition, Sfax, Tunis, Tunisia.
2008 Je pense à toi, Siwa 02, Odeon Theater, Paris, France.
2007 Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Umbertide, Italy.
2005 Cité Internationale des Arts de Paris, France.
2004 Centre d'Art Vivant de Rades, Tunisia.
SOLO PUBLICATIONS
2016
Nobody Will Talk About Us, Published on the occasion of the solo exhibition by Tyburn Gallery, London, 8 April – 21 May 2016, Publisher Tyburn Gallery, London
2009
Murmurer, galerie El Marsa, octobre 2009
PUBLICATIONS
2017
MOUNA KARRAY. Angle 19. Nobody Will Talk About Us, Multi Press edition, Norway , Angle 19-20° : Multipress
2014
The Divine Comedy: Heaven, Purgatory and Hell Revisited by Contemporary African Artists, Simon Njami, Zdenka Badovinac, Johannes Hoff, Roberto Casati, Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld, Germany, 2014, pp. 294-297
2013
The Sea Is My Land, Artisti dal Mediterraneo, ed. Feltrinelli, Italy, 2013, pp133-139
2012
Un avenir en Rose, Contemporary Art from Tunisia, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Kerber, Berlin, 2012
2011
L'Art au Féminin : approches contemporaines, ed. L'Harmattan
For a Sustainable World: Rencontres de Bamako, African Photography Biennial, 9th Edition, Actes Sud, Arles, France, 2011, pp. 142-145
Amirsadeghi, Hossein, Mikdadi, Salwa, New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century, Transglobe Publishing, London, UK, 2011, pp. 186-289
2010
Njami, Simon and Vanhaecke, Frank, A Useful Dream: African Photography 1960-2010, Silvana Editoriale, Milan, Italy.
2009
Photoquai 2009, 2nd Biennale des images du monde, Anahita Ghabaian Etehadieh, Acte Sud / Musée quai Branly, Ales, France, 2009
2008
Regards des Photographes Arabes Contemporains, ed. Musée National d'art Moderne et Contemporain d'Alger
2007
Dans la ville et Au delà, The 7th African Photography Biennal, ed. Marval
COLLECTIONS
Zeit MOCCA, Cape Town, South Africa
Nadour, Private Collection
Sindika Dokolo, Private Collection
Ministry of Tunisian Culture
