Tamara Kalo (b. 1994, Saida, Lebanon) is a Lebanese-French artist working across alternative photographic processes, sculpture, performance, film and textile. Her practice engages image-making as alchemical gestures of ritual and remembrance, tracing body, land, and memory through the politics of displacement and visibility. Navigating between the intimate and collective, she holds the body as a relational measure of place: a site-specific witness to the re-mapping of boundaries and belonging. Through duration, process, and materiality her work touches on the fragility between events and their recollection, and the fluid temporality of human experience set against the ancient wisdom of land.
2027 Goldsmiths, University of London
MFA Fine Art
2016 University of California at Berkeley
BA in Architecture, minor in French
Group Shows
2026 I Am Not What I Am, I Become; Athr Gallery; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2025 Anatomy of the Unseen, The Nest; Al Ula, Saudi Arabia
2025 Life After Extinction; Rotlicht Festival; Vienna, Austria
2025 Slow Burn, Beirut Art Center; Beirut, Lebanon
2025 What Lies In Between, PhotoEspana at Casa Arabe; Madrid, Spain
2025 The Other Side of The Moon, Baro Galeria & O Contemporary; Abu Dhabi, UAE
2025 Vima Art Fair, Takeover Beirut; Limassol, Cyprus
2025 Dubai Art Fair, Baro Galeria; Dubai, UAE
2025 Intersections,Baro Galeria & O Contemporary; Abu Dhabi, UAE
2025 All Beautiful Things Are Fragile, Athr Gallery; JAX District, Riyadh, KSA
2025 Reunion, AlSerkal Advisory; Diriyah, KSA
2025 Islamic Arts Biennale, And All That Is In Between; Jeddah, KSA
2025 Perfume in Exile, Friends Artspace; Arlington, Virginia
2024 I want to be happy, I wish to be yellow. Gallery Isabelle; Dubai UAE
2024 In the blink of an eye, TAP Billboard Commission; Beirut, Lebanon
2024 The Nest, Al Riwaq Art Space; Manama, Bahrain
2024 How To Time Travel, MMAG; Amman, Jordan
2023 An Eternal Witness, Fenaa Alawwal; Riyadh, KSA
2023 Shattered Horizon, TakeOver Beirut; Lebanon
2023 On purpose; Athr Foundation, Diriyah, KSA
2023 Atmospheric; Cairo Citadel, Egypt
2023 Stories from the Present Past; Saida, Lebanon
Grants
2021 Athr Maan Grant
Residencies
2025 Postnatural Independent Program; Madrid, Spain
2024 NEOM Residency; Neom, KSA & Madrid, Spain
2024 Bait Shouaib Residency; Jeddah, KSA
2023 Intermix Residency; Diriyah, KSA
2024 NEOM Residency; Neom, KSA & Madrid, Spain
2024 Bait Shouaib Residency; Jeddah, KSA
2023 Intermix Residency; Diriyah, KSA
Collaborations
2024 Gazelle in a Mother’s Eye with Jumana Emil Aboud; Diriyah, KSA
2022 Structural Fluidity, Noor Riyadh Light Festival, with Nasser Almuulhim; Riyadh, KSA
2021 Hayy Jameel Facade; Contours on Collective Consciousness, collaborated commission with Nasser Almulhim, Jeddah, KSA
2021 Diriyah Biennale; performed for This Sea is Mine by Marwah Almugait, Riyadh, KSA
2022 Structural Fluidity, Noor Riyadh Light Festival, with Nasser Almuulhim; Riyadh, KSA
2021 Hayy Jameel Facade; Contours on Collective Consciousness, collaborated commission with Nasser Almulhim, Jeddah, KSA
2021 Diriyah Biennale; performed for This Sea is Mine by Marwah Almugait, Riyadh, KSA
photo by Latifa Bokhari