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Anna Ogden-Smith

Anna Ogden-Smith is a visual artist whose body of work spans across the moving image, fine arts, graphic design, and writing. Her projects take on many forms, engage different mediums crafted around specific narratives, and explore new modes of reading. Anna completed an MA at the Royal College of Art, London, in 2013. Her work has been exhibited and screened in museums and festivals internationally at the Beirut Art Center (2016), Vancouver Film Festival (Vancouver, 2013); British Film Institute (London, 2013), Musee du Jeu de Paume (Paris, 2008); Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt (Berlin, 2008); Reina Sofia National Museum (Madrid, 2008); New Museum (New York, 2011), Sursock Museum (Beirut, 2015). In 2017, Anna founded visual communication agency, bananamonkey., which she manages and heads creatively.

Works

Anna Ogden-Smith
Day 7

2025

30 x 41 cm (Flesh) 30 x 42 cm (Flower)

31 x 43 cm (Beta) 38 x 50 cm (Black)

Pig skin, betadine, watercolor, oil pastel, pencil, ball pen, thread, dental floss, and needle

Exhibitions
28 November, 2025 to 11 January, 2026
Beit Beirut, Sodeco Square, Monot, Ashrafieh, Beirut.

Freedom Recalled

Freedom Recalled is a landmark exhibition at Beit Beirut which confronts Lebanon’s unresolved history of impunity, the failures of justice and the unhealed wounds that continue to echo through its collective psyche. At its heart, Freedom Recalled asks: Do we bear a responsibility to remember — and if so, how? What silences do we choose to uphold, and what price must truth exact in return? And ultimately, how might the pursuit of justice become a catalyst for personal healing and national renewal? Explore