Ahmad Ghaddar aka Renoz is a Lebanese multidisciplinary artist based in Barcelona. His work exists at the intersection of urban art and studio practice. Originally from South Lebanon and trained at the Lebanese University, his practice has always been a deconstruction of the social and political forces that dictate our public spaces. In Beirut, this meant a clinical examination of post-civil war urban structures and the "makeshift" solution that communities create to survive systemic failures.
Since moving to Catalonia, Renoz has found that cooking and food preparation are the only practices that have provided him with a coherent framework for navigating a new environment. He has realized that culinary architecture has a profound power to preserve and communicate what borders try to erase: memory, culture, and history. His current research treats food-making as a "portable territory" for the displaced. Through this practice, he positions the kitchen as a site of resist erasure.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2018 BA Fine Arts - Faculty of Fine arts, Lebanese University Branch 1
Professional Background
2024 Assistant professor, American University of Beirut, Beirut,Lebanon 2023-2024 Trainee, BeMA Paper Conservation and Restoration Traineeship, Beirut,Lebanon
2023 Co-founder of Where There’s Walls, Beirut Lebanon
2022-2023 Studio Assistant, Beirut Printmaking Studio, Beirut,Lebanon
2022 Bema Educational Program, Beirut,Lebanon
2018-2021 Art teacher, Wellspring Learning Community, Beirut,Lebanon
Exhibitions Solo2022 Lawen Wasel, ARTLAB BEIRUT, Beirut, Lebanon
Group2025 Public Disorder Collective, MENART fair, Paris , France
2025 Furn Elhara, site specific intervention, 200cents gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2023 Home Works 9: Intimate Garden Scene (in Beirut), Ashkal Alwan, Sursock Museum, Beirut Lebanon
2023 30 Years of Color, Galerie Januin Rubeiz, Beirut, Lebanon
2023 MORSURE #3 L’archipel, Brittany, France
2023 Pebeo URBAN ART PRIZE, FLUCTUART, Paris, France 2023
2023 Biennale Internationale Destampe Contemporaire de Trios Riviere, Quebec, Canada
2023 Art Laguna Art Prize, Finalist Exhibition, Venice, Italy
2023 Black Sun, White Mountains 2, Skånes konstförening, Malmo, Sweden
2023 Imagine That Tommorow, Inbetween Festival, Abroyan Factory, Beirut, Lebanon
2022 Impressions from an Archive, Liverpool Arab Arts Festival, Liverpool , UK
2022 BPS-AIF Translating Images, Mena Image Center, Beirut, Lebanon
2022 Journée de l’Estampe Contemporaine, Place Saint Sulpice, Saint Sulpice, Paris
2022 IMPRINT 01, Beirut Printmaking Studio, ARTLAB BEIRUT, Beirut, Lebanon
2022 Support for Lebanese engravers, FONDATION TAYLOR, Paris, France
2022 Pebeo URBAN ART PRIZE, FLUCTUART, Paris, France
2022 In The Rift, Where Time is suspended, Galerie Janin Rubeiz, Beirut, Lebanon
2022 Black Sun, White Mountains, Skärholmen, Stockholm, Sweden
2021 JAALA 22nd, Yokohama Civic Art Gallery, Yokahoma, Japan
2021 Space and emotions amidst confinement, Galerie Janin Rubeiz, Beirut, Lebanon
2020 Egypt International Art Fair, New Cairo, Egypt
2020 Rise Up Beirut, LOYAC, Beirut, Lebanon
2020 Beirut Year Zero, Arthause Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon
2020 Beirut 2020, Galerie Janin Rubeiz, Beirut, Lebanon
2020 October 17th 2nd Edition, Galerie Janin Rubeiz, Beirut, Lebanon
2018 CUB x Skoun, CUB Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2018 Talent Unbound, Beirut Art Salon, Beirut, Lebanon
2018 Emerging, CUB Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
RESIDENCIES2025 Autostop II, L’automatica , Barcelona, Spain
2025 B-murals Urban Art Residency, Barcelona,Spain
2024 Art dans les Cités, Brittany, France
2023 Pilar Joan Miro Foundation Printmaking Editioning Residency, Palma De Mallorca, Spain
2023 Air Beirut, SARADAR Foundation, Beirut Lebanon
2022 BEIRUT PRINTMAKING STUDIO Art Residency, Beirut, Lebanon
AWARDS & PRIZES
2023 The Boghossian Foundation Prize Lebanon
2023 PARIS URBAN ART PRIZE 2023
2022 PILAR JUNCOSA & SOTHEBY’S BIENNIAL PRINTMAKING AWARD