2025
November 15, 2025, 4pm
Book Signing with Rania Matar
Galerie Tanit, Booth B42
Grand Palais, Paris France
November 13, 2025, 5pm
Paris Photo Book Signing
Official release of Rania’s new book Where Do I Go?
KAPH Books, Booth K17
Grand Palais, Paris Photo, Paris France
October 9, 2025, 3-4:30pm
Then, Now, Next: The Evolution of A Yellow Rose Project
An in-person conversation with artists from A Yellow Rose Project
Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA
September 25, 2025, 12-1pm ET
From the Individual to the Collective: A Search for Identity, with Rania Matar
Online Artist Lecture (invite poster)
World Affairs Lecture Series, FIT, New York NY
July 11, 2025, 5-8pm CT
Women to the Front
Opening Reception
Lubeznik Center, Michigan City IN
April 17, 2025, 4:30-6:30pm ET
SHE
Artist Lecture and Closing Reception
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury VT
April 10, 2025, 6-9pm
50 Years Later: Where Do I Go?
Opening Reception
Galerie Tanit, Beirut Lebanon
February 15, 2025, 11:00am – 12:30pm
Portraits Against Ruin: Photographing Place
With Rania Matar and Dean Majd
Co-sponsored by The Middle East Institute
Columbia University, Maison Française, New York, NY
February 13, 2025
SHE
4:30pm ET: Panel Discussion with Rania
5:30pm ET: Opening Reception
Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury VT
February 11, 2025, 7-9pm ET
Portraits from the ICA Collection
Winter Exhibitions Opening Celebration
ICA/Boston, Boston MA
February 5, 2025, 6pm ET
Rania Matar: From the Personal to the Universal
Artist Lecture (invite poster)
Roger Williams University, Bristol RI
2024
- Opening Reception, Can You See Me?, Leica Gallery, Boston MA, May 17, 2024
- Opening Reception, Louder Than Hearts, Middle East Institute, Washington D.C., May 9, 2024
- Artist Lecture, From Personal to Universal: The Photography of Rania Matar, Springfield Museums, Springfield MA, April 11, 2024
2023
- Artist Talk, Oceans at My Door, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA, November 18, 2023
- Opening Reception, Le Liban n’a pas d’age, La Bibliothèque Orientale, Beirut Lebanon, October 3, 2023
- Lecture and Preview Party with Rania Matar, Rania Matar – SHE, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville AL, August 17, 2023
- Artist Reception, Shades of Compassion, Headley-Whitney Museum of Art, Lexington KY, April 22, 2023
- 2023 MassArt Auction, Mass Art College of Art and Design, Boston MA, April 1, 2023
- Kasmin x Radius Pop-up Book Signing, Kasmin Gallery, New York NY, March 24, 2023
- Opening Reception & Gallery Talk, Oceans at My Door, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg MA, March 19, 2023
- Artist Reception, A Girl and Her Room, Saint Anselm College, Manchester NH, February 22, 2023
2022
- Book Signing: RADIUS Books & Galerie Tanit, PARIS PHOTO, Grand Palais Ephémère, Galerie Tanit, November 11-12, 2022
- Photobook Book Group #50: Rania Matar, SHE, J. Sybylla Smith, Somerville MA, October 27, 2022 – [ Read the Introduction | Watch the Video ]
- Artist Reception, Arnold Newman Prize Exhibition, Griffin Museum of Photography, Boston MA, October 8, 2022
- Opening Reception & Book Signing, Rania Matar – SHE, Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown MA, May 26, 2022
- Opening Preview & Book Signing at Robert Klein Gallery Booth 218, AIPAD 2022, Center415, New York City NY, May 19, 2022
- Conversations with Saint Lucy: Rania Matar and Orin Zahra, Saint Lucy Books, February 2, 2022
- i3 Photo Lecture: Rania Matar, School of Visual Arts, New York NY, January 25, 2022 – [ Watch the Video ]
2021
- Book Signing with Rania Matar, Galerie Tanit, Beirut, Part of the proceeds from each book sold will go to Offre-Joie and Al-Kafaàt, December 20, 2021
- Virtual Interview: Photographer Rania Matar, afikra Conversations, November 16, 2021 – [Watch the Video]
- Online & In-Person Presentation and Book Signing: Rania Matar, Coolidge Corner Theater, Brookline MA, Photographic Resource Center / Boston, October 18, 2021
- Virtual Interview: From the Personal to the Collective – The Photography of Rania Matar
Shaikh Ebrahim bin Mohammed Al Khalifa, Center for Culture and Research, Muharraq | Bahrain, October 16, 2021 - Virtual Book Launch: SHE | RANIA MATAR, Palestinian Museum US, October 10, 2021
- SHE | Rania Matar, Weston Art and Innovation Center, Weston, MA, October 6, 2021
- Opening Reception and Book Signing: SHE | Rania Matar, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD, September 25, 2021
- Book Club Live: Rania Matar, Photo London Book Club, May 27, 2021
- SESSION 14: From the Individual to the Collective, Rania Matar, Nobechi Creative: EVENINGS WITH THE MASTERS, April 7, 2021
- Imagemaking and a Global Pandemic, A virtual conversation with Rania Matar, Idris Talib Solomon, Haruka Sakaguchi, and Philip Montgomery, moderated by Yukiko Sakaguchi, ICP Presents – The Rules are Broken: A Year in Imagemaking, March 29, 2021
- Virtual Artist Talk: On Either Side of the Window: Portraits During COVID-19, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, March 23, 2021 – [Watch the Video]
- International Women’s Day: Virtual Festival – In Conversation: Rania Matar and Ambreen Butt, NMWA Assistant Curator Orin Zahra speaks with photographer Rania Matar and mixed-media artist Ambreen Butt, whose art examines contemporary global politics and female identities. March 8, 2021
- Intersect 21: The Cross Cultural Female Gaze, A conversation with artists Lita Albuquerque, Alia Ali, and Rania Matar. Moderated by Manal Ataya, Director General of the Sharjah Museums Authority, February 18, 2021
- BMA x NMWA Monthly Talk Show: YOUTH, Organized by the Baltimore Museum of Art and the National Museum of Women in the Arts, February 9, 2021
- Sama Alshaibi and Rania Matar, Griffin Museum of Photography, February 3, 2021
- Online Event: From Personal to Universal: Artist talk with Rania Matar, SF Camerawork, January 13, 2021
2020
- The Artist’s Voice: Rania Matar, ICA Boston, December 3, 2020
- Virtual Featured Artist Talk with Rania Matar, PhotoNOLA 2020, November 23, 2020
- From the Individual to the Collective: The Photography of Rania Matar, Minneapolis Institute of Art, September 23, 2020
- Exposure Studio: Rania Matar, Exposure Photography Festival, August 19, 2020
- @Home with Women empowerment through a lens, with Sama Alshaibi and Rania Matar, moderated by Maya Samawi, The Art Circle/Abu Dhabi, June 25, 2020
- Studio Happy Hour with Rania Matar, Pictura Gallery at the FAR Contemporary Art Center, May 2, 2020
- Artist-mother-educator, a multigenerational panel discussion with Bea Nettles, Rania Matar, and Jessica Todd Harper, moderated by curator Jamie Allen, Eastman Museum Panel, May 2, 2020
- Annual Newman Lecture with Rania Matar, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis MN, April 30, 2020
- From Personal to Universal: Photographs by Rania Matar, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington IN, January 2020
2019
- NORTHSHORE PHOTOGRAPHY LECTURE SERIES, Firehouse Center for the Art, Newburyport MA, November 2019
- CUBE Studio Visit and Presentation, Boston MA, October 2019
- Artists Talk with Rania Matar, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill NC, October 2019
- Artists Talks, CENTER Festival, Drury Plaza Hotel, Santa Fe NM, October 2019
- Rania Matar Artist Talk, Governor’s Academy, Byfield MA, April 2019
- From Personal to Universal: Photographs by Rania Matar, University of Michigan, Dearborn MI, April 2019
2018
- From Girlhood to Womanhood: A Panel Discussion with Rania Matar (View the lecture), Cleveland Museum of Art at Transformer Station, Cleveland OH, November 2018
- Communitas Lecture Series: Rania Matar, Utah State University, Logan UT, October 2018
- First-Year Experience Keynote Lecture, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY, September 2018
- Meet the Artist, Light Factory, Charlotte NC, June 2018
- Gallery Talk, Newport Museum of Art, Newport RI, June 2018
- “In Her Image”, Artist Talk, Amon Carter Museum of Art, Fort Worth TX, April 2018
- Triplette Foundation Lecture Series, Weatherspoon Museum, Greensboro NC, April 2018
- Artist Talk with Rania Matar, The Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, Gambier OH, March 2018
Earlier
- ViewPoint – Rania Matar: From Personal to Universal, The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota FL, December 2017
- Womanhood: From Personal to Universal / Photographs by Rania Matar, MIT Architecture, Cambridge MA, September 2017
- On Streets, Within Rooms & Beyond Walls: Rania Matar, The Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, Gambier OH, April 2017
- Jennifer Karady & Rania Matar: Aftermath Photographers, Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville FL, October 2016
- Artist Talk and Book Signing, Brookline Booksmith, Brookline MA, March 2016
- Artists in Conversation: “She Who Tells a Story” with Rania Matar, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, June 2016
- Department of Design’s Hallmark Symposium Lecture Series, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS, October 2015
- Artist Talk, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA, September 2015
- Artist Panel with Tanya Habjouqa, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Palo Alto CA, October 2015
- Kennedy Family Visiting Artists and Scholars, USF College of the Arts, University of South Florida, Tampa FL, Fall 2014
2025
Online Workshop / Sep 9 – Oct 7, 2025, 10am-12:30pm ET
The Creative Portrait
Maine Media Workshops
Online Workshop / Apr 22 – May 27, 2025
The Creative Portrait with Rania Matar
Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP)
Online Workshop / Jan 21 – Feb 18, 2025
The Creative Portrait with Rania Matar
Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP)
2024
- Portrait, Intimacy, and the Long Term Project, Rania Matar with Special Guest Alessandra Sanguinetti, La Luz Workshops, September 4 – October 23, 2024
- The Creative Portrait, Santa Fe Photographic Workshops, June 24-28, 2024
- The Creative Portrait, Maine Media Workshops, March 26 – April 23, 2024
- From the Personal to the Universal: The Tools to Create Intimate Portraits with Rania Matar, Griffin Museum of Photography Workshop, February 3 & 10, 2024
- The Creative Portrait with Rania Matar, Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP), January 16 – February 13, 2024
2023
- The Portrait: Expressing Identity with Rania Matar, 2023 Master Artist Workshop, Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville AL, October 5-7, 2023
- The Creative Portrait, Maine Media Workshops, September 5 – October 3, 2023
- From the Personal to the Universal: The Tools to Create Intimate Portraits, Santa Fe Workshops, March 21 & 28, 2023
- The Creative Portrait with Rania Matar, Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP), January 17 – February 14, 2023
2022
- Portrait, Intimacy, and the Long Term Project, Rania Matar, with special guest Sian Davey, La Luz Workshops, August 30 – October 25, 2022
- The Creative Portrait, Santa Fe Workshops, July 11-15, 2022
- The Creative Portrait, Maine Media Workshops, May 3-31, 2022
- Portrait and Identity: The Long Term Project, MassArt online course, March 1 – April 26, 2022
- The Creative Portrait with Rania Matar, Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP), January 25 – February 22, 2022
2021
- From the Personal to the Universal: The Tools to Create Intimate Portraits with Rania Matar, Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP) webinar, December 4, 2021
- The Creative Portrait With Rania Matar, Santa Fe Online Workshop, November 29 – December 16, 2021
- Portrait, Intimacy, and the Long Term Project, Rania Matar, with special guest Hellen Van Meene, La Luz Workshops, August 31 – October 26, 2021
- The Portrait: Expressing Identity, Anderson Ranch Arts Center Workshop, Snowmass Village CO, July 5-9, 2021
- The Creative Portrait, Maine Media Workshops, April 27 – May 25, 2021
- Portrait and Identity: The Long Term Project, MassArt online class, February 2 – April 27, 2021
- The Intimate Portrait: Staying Connected During Covid-19 with Rania Matar, Los Angeles Center of Photography online class, January 19 – February 23, 2021
2020
- Homebound: Intimate Portraits, Santa Fe Online Workshop with Rania Matar, September 17 – October 5, 2020
- Exposure Studio: Rania Matar, Exposure Photography Festival, August 19, 2020
- The Portrait: Expressing Identity with Rania Matar, Santa Fe Photographic Workshop, April 5-10, 2020
- Portrait and Identity: The Long Term Project, MassArt, Spring Semester 2020
Earlier
- Portrait and Identity Workshop, LA Center of Photography, Los Angeles CA, September 2019
- Photo Vogue Festival 2019 Juror, Milan Italy, May 2019
- The Portrait and Identity Workshop, Filter Photo, Chicago IL, September 2017
- Portraits and Identity by Rania Matar, Hampshire College, Amherst MA, September 2016
Rania Matar Book Edition
The Crit House
Rania Matar – MyFive
The Crit House
Rania Matar – Shared Humanity – Xposure 2024
Xposure
In Focus: Rania Matar
National Museum of Women in the Arts
In Conversation with Rania Matar
J. Sybylla Smith
i3 Lecture with Rania Matar
SVA Digital Photography Masters
Womanhood and Adolescence: A Photographic Journey
afikra
Artist Talk: Rania Matar
Rollins Museum of Art
In Conversation: Rania Matar and Ambreen Butt
National Museum of Women in the Arts
The Artist’s Voice: Rania Matar
ICA Boston
Talk – From the Individual to the Collective
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Intimate Photography In A Pandemic
GBH
Communitas Lecture: Rania Matar
Department of Art + Design, USU
MassArt 30th Anniversary Auction: Rania Matar
Massachusetts College of Art and Design