Gruppenausstellungen

2023

Off the Grid: Post-Formal Conceptualism
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2022

Villa Romana, Open Studio 22 (Haure Madjid)
Florence, Italy

2022

Migration,
Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany

2022

12. Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art,
Berlin, Germany

2021

Under Construction Part II,
Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, UAE

2021

Under Construction Part I,
Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai, UAE

2021

Der Traum vom Wohnen,
Museum Ratingen, Germany

2020

Blue,
Lawrie Shabibi, Al Quoz, Dubai, UAE

2019

Between Them: An Installation Composed of Drawings,
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

How the Light Gets In,
Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithica, NY

Materialize,
Lawrie Shabibi, Al Quoz, Dubai

2018

Phantoms of Perception,
Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany

L’un et l’autre,
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

Each Day an Artist,
Lawrie Shabibi, Al Quoz, Dubai

2017

Perpetual Construction: A Dialogue with the House of Jean Prouvé III,
CAB Art Center, Brussels, Belgium

2016

La Ville au Loin, Les Turbulence,
FRAC Centre, Orléans, France

2015

Walls and Margins,
Barjeel Art Fondation, Sharjah

Promenons-nous,
l ́Abbaye, Annecy-le-vieux, France

191° S, Wallpainting II,
Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf

2014

Memory, Place, Desire,
The Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College, PA

Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain,
Dakar, Senegal

2013

La route bleue,
Villa Empain, Brussels

2012

Look Both Ways,
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

25 Ans de Créativité Arabe,
Institute de Monde Arab, Paris, France

Horizons Croisés,
Moussem culturel international d’Assilah, Asilah, Morocco

Placebo,
Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Dubai, UAE

Semi-Permeable,
Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY

Maghreb: Two Shores,
Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, Spain

Desivar do olhar,
Caroline Pagès Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal

« Dok 25a »,
Devening Projects+editions, Chicago, IL

2011

Geometric Days,
Exit Art, New York, NY

The Future of A Promise: Contemporary Art from the Arab World,
produced by Edge of Arabia during the 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Le Retour,
3ème Festival International d'Art Contemporain d'Alger, Algiers, Algeria

2010

EINFLUSS: 8 from Düsseldorf – Introducing the Next Wave fromo Germany,
Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY and San Francisco, CA

Cairo Biennial, Cairo, Egypt

archiTECHtonica,
CU Art Museum, University of Colorado at Boulder, CO

In Full Color,
Hosfelt Gallery, New York, NY

2009

Looking Inside Out, 
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway

Crossings/Traversées,
Bab Rouah/Bab El Kebir, Rabat, Morocco

Périfériks,
Centre d’Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

2008

Watching the Detectives,
Meierhof Projekte, Düsseldorf, Germany

Iconoclastes: Les Territoires de l ́Esprit,
Gallerie Anne de Villepoix,Paris, France

Art Entre Quatre Murs,
Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France

2007

Pattern vs. Decoration,
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA and New York, NY

Alger: Capitale de la Culture Arabe,
Musée National d’Art moderne etcontemporain d’Alger, Algeria

2006

Sonntag: Painting from Düsseldorf,
Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2003

Centre d’Art Château de Servières, Marseille, France

2001

Unterwegs,
Achim Franz Willems/Driss Ouadahi, Atelierhaus e.V., Aachen, Germany

Traumzeit 2001,
Landschaftspark Duisburg, Germany

1997

51. Bergische Kunstausstelung, Museum Baden, Solingen, Germany

1996

AL FANN II,
DOCK 4, Kassel, Germany

1995

Les effets du voyage,
Palais des congrès et de la culture, Le Mans, France

1991

Galerie Isma, Algiers, Algeria

1989

Musée Picasso, Antibes, France

Öffentliche Sammlungen

Museum Ratingen,
Ratingen, DE

Barjeel Art Foundation Collection,
Sharjah, UAE

Frac Centre, Les Turbulences,
Orléans, France

Herbert-Weisenburger-Stiftung,
Rastatt, Germany

Kamel Lazaar Foundation,
Geneva, Switzerland

Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf,
Düsseldorf, Germany

Nadour Collection,
Germany

Stadtsparkasse Baden-Baden,
Germany

Von der Heydt Museum,
Wuppertal, Germany

Auszeichnungen & Künstlerresidenz

2014

Grand Prix Léopold Sédar SENGHOR,
Dakar, Senegal

2013

Cité international des Arts Paris,
Verein der Düsseldorfer Künstler

2011

Artist Residency,
Etaneno Museum im Busch, Namibia

2003

Artist Residency,
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Istres, France

Bibliografie

LE MONDE diplomatique (Deutsche Ausgabe),
Juni 2022.

Present! Still - 12th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 
ISBN: 978-3-00-071963-9,
KUNST-WERKE BERLIN e.V.
2022.

Algérie, le rêve d’un réel,
ISBN: 978-2-35906-367-7
Le Frac Centre-Val de Loire,
2022.

Der Traum vom Wohnen — The Dream of Living,
Kettler Verlag, Bönen, S. 60-73
2021.

Ouadahi, Driss. “System der Abgrenzung”,
ISBN: 978-3-89202-100-1
Kettler Verlag, Bönen,
2018.

Frock, Christian L. “Driss Ouadahi: Breach in the Silence,”
SF Arts Monthly, vol. 25, no. 6, p. 14,
July-August 2016.

Lempesis, Dimitris. “Art-Presentation: Driss Ouadahi – Breach in the Silence,” dreamideamachine ART VIEW,
July 16, 2016.

Zack, Jessica. “Driss Ouadahi takes on fences in latest exhibit,”
San Francisco Chronicle,
July 13, 2016.

Clarke, Kelly. “Impression of the city in blurred lines,”
Khaleej Times,
December 22, 2014.

Tourish, Chanelle. “Imagined reality,”
Time Out Dubai,
December 17, 2014.

Seaman, Anna. “Driss Ouadahi’s latest show addresses urban alienation through real and imagined cityscapes,”
The National,
November 11, 2014.

Arni, Sophie. “Driss Ouadahi: Meeting with an International Style Painter,”
Global Art Daily,
November 10, 2014.

“Blurring the Lines,”
SWR, pp. 59-60,
November 2, 2014.

Mohammad, Arsalan. “Urban Renewal,”
Harper’s Bazaar Art, p.68
November-December, 2014

Weigant, Syham. “Driss Ouadahi, Le Plus Classique des Contemporains,”
Diptyk, no. 24, pp. 44-49,
June-September 2014.

Kermeliotis, Teo. “Dakar Biennale brings modern African art to the world stage,”
CNN.com,
May 29, 2014.

Bronner, Julian Elias. “Driss Ouadahi at Caroline Pagès Gallery,”
Artforum.com,
August 2013.

de Oliveira, Luísa Soares. “Driss Ouadahi pinta os bairros da imigração,” Ípsilon/Público, p. 22,
July 12, 2013.

Boucher, Marie-Pier. “Des artistes d’origine algérienne exposent dans les meilleurs musées du monde,”
Algerie-Focus,
March 13, 2013.

Haas, Maggie. “Through Windows, Through Walls: Driss Ouadahi at Hosfelt Gallery,”
Daily Serving,
February 27, 2013.

Turner, Chérie Louise. “Editorial Features: Driss Ouadahi,”
Visual Art Source,
February 2013.

“Le plasticien algérian Driss Ouadahi expose à San Francisco,”
Le Temps d’Algérie,
Febraury 13, 2013.

George, Kendall. “Driss Ouadahi’s ‘Trans-Location’ at Hosfelt Gallery,”
San Francisco Arts Quarterly,
February 2013.

“Driss Ouadahi: Trans-Location,”
Resonant City,
February 11, 2013.

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Gallery,”
ArtDaily,
February 6, 2013.

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San Francisco Bay Guardian,
January 29, 2013.

Indrisek, Scott. “Driss Ouadahi,”
Modern Painters,
Dec 2010/Jan 2011, p.72.

Triki, Rachida. “If Walls Could Talk...”
IBRAAZ,
May 24 2012.

“Breathing Space: Driss Ouadahi,”
Harpers Bazaar Art,
Spring 2012, pp. 122-23.

Lord, Christopher. “Driss Ouadahi Show Sees Modern Life Filtered Through a Mesh.”
The National,
February 26, 2012.

Kalsi, Jyoti. “Breakable Barriers,”
Gulf News,
February 24, 2012.

Viladas, Pilar. “Now Showing: Driss Ouadahi,”
The New York Times T Magazine Blog,
Oct 1, 2010.

Levin, Kim. “Gridded Tyrannies,”
catalogue essay from Driss Ouadahi: Densité
(Hosfelt Gallery, New York), 2010.

Hirsch, Thomas. “On the Painting of Driss Ouadahi,”
catalogue essay from Driss Ouadahi
Herbert-Weisenburger-Stiftung, Rastatt, Germany),
2009.

Schlenker, Katia. “Looking Inside Out” catalogue essay
Kunstnernes Hus, Olso, Norway,
2009.

Baker, Kenneth. “Galleries: The Paint Strokes Between Realism and Abstraction,”
San Francisco Chronicle, pp. E1, E10
December 1, 2007.

Meister, Helga.
Westdeutsche Zeitung,
June 9, 2006.