Audrée Anid: Spring

Audrée Anid, Aerial I, from the series Spring (2018) oil on digital inkjet print, 10.16 x 15.24 cm. Courtesy of the Artist and Emergeast.

On August 4th, 2020, like many across the globe, I watched Beirut implode through the screen of my phone. My family’s apartment was ravaged and upended; and I saw familiar items, like my framed artworks, shattered on the floor. It’s just material damage, I told myself repeatedly, attempting to rationalize the situation.

Audrée Anid is a Lebanese-American mixed-media artist and independent curator whose work spans photography, painting, and printmaking. Audrée was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1990 and grew up in the Bronx, New York. She holds a BA from Wesleyan University in Connecticut and an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University, in New York. Solo exhibitions include "Memorial Passageway" at ArtLab Beirut. Her work has been exhibited at Photoville NYC at Brooklyn Bridge Park, Humble Arts Foundation, Equity Gallery, Gallery at BRIC House, and NARS Foundation, among others. International exhibitions include Arts Suzhou in Suzhou, China, The Beirut Contemporary Global Art Fair, and Beit Beirut, Museum and Urban Cultural Center in Beirut, Lebanon. In 2018, she co-founded RATA Projects, a curatorial initiative. She is based in Brooklyn, New York.