Education

• 1995 Université Paris X Nanterre, Paris, France

Solo Exhibition

• 2011 The Lebanese Rocket Society, “Une terrible beaute est nee”, 11eme Biennale de Lyon, France
• The Lebanese Rocket Society, Sharjah Biennial 10, Sharjah
• Wonder Beirut, Art Dubai, CRG Gallery and In Situ Gallery, Dubai
• 2010 Histoire du vent, Festival d’Avignon, Ecole d’Art
• I want to see, Gazworks, Triangle Arts Trust, London
• Is there anybody out there, Gaerie In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris,
• 2009 Je suis là même si tu ne me vois pas, I am here even if you don’t see me, Galerie
• Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Mois de la Photo, Montréal, Québec, Canada
• Tels des oasis dans le désert : Eglise des Célestins Festival d’Avignon,
• Vidéoworks : Wish we could tell, Villa do Conde, Portugal
• Faces, Art première (avec Renaud Auguste Dormeuil), Art Basel
• Wonder Beirut, Centre de la photographie de Genève, Switzerland
• Vidéoworks : Wish we could tell, Space Gallery (Part of Image Festival), Toronto, Canada
• We could be heroes just for one day, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
• 2008 We could be heroes just for one day, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
• Circulo de confusion, Musée de Gigon, Espagne
• Back to the present, Homeworks IV, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, Lebanon
• Histoires tenues secrètes, Fort du Bruissin, openning of the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Francheville, France

Group Shows (selection) 

• 2011 Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage, Museum of Fine Arts Houson (forthcoming)
• Seeing is believing, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
• The State: Social/Antisocial?, The Third Line Gallery, Dubai
• “Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennial)”, Istanbul, Turkey
• 2010 Nobody’s Property: Art, Land, Space, 2010-2011, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
• Soft Machine, Panorama 12, Le Fresnoy, Studio des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing, France
• La revanche de l’archive photographique, Centre de la photographie de Genève, Suisse
• Perpetual Battles, baibakova Art Project, Moscow
• Utopie(s), Curated by Jany Bourdais, Centre Culturel Français, Beirut, Lebanon
• Brouillon, Musée de la dance, Rennes, France
• 2009 Image in Question, 41st national Artists’ Salon Cali, Colombia
• 9th Edition of the Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
• Zones of conflict, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, USA
• Fonction Critique, Aperto, Montpellier, France
• Fictions du réel, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
• Promised Lands, 6th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contempory Art, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
• Crossing (Traversées), Bab Rouah, & Bab el Kébir, Rabat, Maroc
• 2008 Zones of conflict, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, USA
• Roads were opened/roads were closed,Gallery The Third Line, Dubaï, United Arabian Emirates
• Art now in Lebanon, Darat al Funun, The Khalid Shoman foundation, Amman, Jordan
• Forum Homeworks 4, organised by Ashkal Alwan association, Beirut, Lebanon
• Stratégies de l’histoire, Stratégie de l’art, 6th Biennale de Goumri, Armenia..
• Conspire, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany
• Orients Sans Frontières, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
• 2007 Ah les belles images, Galerie In Situ Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France
• Whenever it starts, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
• Ah les belles images, La Tolerie, Clermont Ferrand, France
• Distorted Fabric, De Apple, Amsterdam, Holland

Films

• 2005 A Perfect Day (2005) aka Yawmon Akhar (Arabic Title)
• 2003 Ramad (2003) aka Cendres (France)
• 2000 Khiam (2000)
• 1999 Autour de la maison rose (1999), aka Al bayt al zahr (Lebanon: Arabic title), aka Around the Pink House (USA)

Bibliography

• 2007 Zehil, Sylviane, Joana Hadjithomas et Khalil Joreige exposant a la CRG de New York, L’Orient LE JOUR, May 10, 2007
• 2005 Carver, Antonia, Hysterical Repetition: Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige’s A Perfect Day, BIDOUN, Issue 6, Winter 2005
• Wonder Beirut, La bataille des hôtels, Mission impossible
• 2004 The story of a pyromaniac photographer in Cabinet, Issue 16, The sea, Immaterial Incorporated,winter 2004
• Like an oasis in the desert: in catalogue Appel à témoin, Edition Quartier 2004
• 2003 Don‚t walk publication, The echo show
• Donner à voir /se donner à voir : dans Al ADAB n° 53 Beyrouth. 2003.
• 2002 Latency, conference in “HOMEWORKS” ed. Ashkal Alwan, Beirut, 2002.
• OK, I‚m going to show you my work : in DISCOURSE 24.1 (winter 2002)
• 2001 A state of latency in ICONOCLASH published by ZKM & MIT press, 2001.
• 1998 Que faisiez vous entre cette aube et la dernière in SPECIMEN n°4 (Paris, 1998)
• 1997 Beyrouth : Fictions urbaines Photobook published by Mind the gap (Beyrouth 1997)

 Awards

• 2012 Abraaj Capital Art Prize for 2012, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige both teach at St. Joseph University in Beirut, Joana gives screenwriting courses and Khalil esthetics and experimental video. http://www.hadjithomasjoreige.com/