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Rania Matar was born and raised in Lebanon and moved to the U.S. in 1984. As a Lebanese-born American woman and mother, her cross-cultural experience and personal narrative inform her photography.

Matar’s work has been widely exhibited in museums worldwide, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Carnegie Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Rollins Museum of Art and more. Her work is included in the permanent collections of several museums, institutions and private collections. A mid-career retrospective of her work was recently on view at Cleveland Museum of Art, Amon Carter Museum of Art and the American University of Beirut Museum.

Matar received a 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2017 Mellon Foundation artist-in-residency grant, 2011 Griffin Museum of Photography Legacy Award and a Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowships in 2021, 2011 and 2007. In 2008, she was a finalist for the Foster Award at the ICA/Boston with an accompanying solo exhibition.

She has published four books: SHE, 2021; L’Enfant-Femme, 2016; A Girl and Her Room, 2012; Ordinary Lives, 2009.

After 10 years, the "i3: Images, Ideas, Inspiration" lecture series continues to features leading photographers, artists, editors, gallerists and industry experts. This Spring, faculty member, Pulitzer Prize winning photo editor, and consultant Stella Kramer is the guest curator and host. Presented by MPS Digital Photography.