Lida Abdul

Giorgio Persano Gallery, Turin

Linz, OK Center for Contemporary Art, In Transit, 2008
Turin, Giorgio Persano Gallery, In Transit, 2008 
Toulouse, Toulouse Art Festival, Le Printemps de Septembre, In Transit, 2008
Champaign, Illinois, Krannert Art Museum, Lida Abdul, 2010
Sharjah, Maraya Art Centre, Migrasophia, 2012
Lisbon, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lida Abdul, 2013, pp. 72-75, illustrated in colour
Málaga, CAC Málaga - Centro De Arte Contemporáneo De Málaga, Lisa Abdul, 2013
Paris, Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisa Abdul, 2014
New Jersey, TCNJ Art Gallery, The College of New Jersey, Art Amongst War: Visual Culture in Afghanistan, 1979-2014, 2014
Seoul, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Utopian Days x Freedom, 2014 

Exhibition Catalogue, Linz, OK Artist in Residence, Lida Abdul – works 1999-2008, 2008, pp. 8-9 

"It is really a playful piece, a fantasy piece, with a group of kids who are playing with a very old Russian plane, that was left over years ago. I was really struck by this piece because it looks between a plane and a bird. It's like a skeleton almost…I want to bring out the beauty of the tragic way in which children face violent scenarios and show how they can be flexible in similar conditions with their innocence, by creating an antidote to the tragedy of their condition. Without children playing and running through the streets of Kabul, Afghanistan today would be even more violent than it is." Lida Abdul, 2013