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tamaras.kalo@gmail.com

Tamara Kalo’s artistic practice explores the intersection of land, body, home and collective memory. She employs distortion, glitching and fragmentation as techniques for image-making and perception. In her works, which range from photography, video, sculpture, textiles, and performance, Kalo focuses on the body as a relational measure of re-mapping memory, displacement, and boundaries through remembrance and site specificity. Her practice facilitates a fluid understanding of the temporality of the human experience in contrast to the vast and ancient wisdom of landscapes and other-than-human beings.  Often navigating between personal and regional domains, she attempts to capture the fragility between events and their recollection.



2016 University of California at Berkeley
BA in Architecture, minor in French 

Group Shows

2025 Intersections,Baro Gallery & O Contemporary; Abu Dhabi, UAE
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 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
2023 Sur La Côte, Point Ephémère; Paris, France

Grants

2021 Athr Maan Grant

Residencies


Collaborations















photo by Latifa Bokhari

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ode to elisar 
structural fluidity
gated oasis
 shattered light
contours on collective consciousness
shattered horizon
folds unfolding
balconies of beirut
this sea is mine

thought-books
fortune tickets

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border wall
bitter flight
tranquil tragedy
mourning dusk
and then we rose
rose portraits
here

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films


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