Lara Baladi is an Egyptian-Lebanese artist, archivist and educator recognized internationally for her multidisciplinary works. Her artistic practice spans photography, video, sculpture, architecture and multimedia installations. She currently serves as a professor of practice in the Visual Art Program at The American University in Cairo (AUC). From 2016 to 2022, Baladi was a lecturer in MIT’s Program in Art, Culture and Technology (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). She received fellowships from the Japan Foundation and MIT’s Open Documentary Lab. Her experience as an artist in residence includes globally recognized institutions such as MacDowell, Art Omi (USA) and New York University Abu Dhabi (UAE), among others. For two decades, Baladi was a pivotal member of the boards of the Arab Image Foundation in Lebanon and the Townhouse Gallery of Contemporary Art in Egypt, influencing the landscape of contemporary art in the Arab world.

Her work has received international recognition and awards, including the first prize/Grand Cobra Award at the 2008–09 Cairo International Contemporary Art Biennale. It has been widely published and exhibited in prominent venues such as the Centre Pompidou in France, Transmediale in Germany, the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea, the Sharjah Biennial in the UAE and the Hasselblad Foundation in Sweden. Most recently, her work was featured at the inaugural Cairo Art Fair at the new Grand Egyptian Museum.

In the 2023–24 academic year, Baladi was a visiting researcher at the American University’s Law and Society Research Unit (LSRU) and the Center for Economic, Legal and Social Studies and Documentation (CEDEJ) in Cairo, Egypt. Her ongoing project, Anatomy of Revolution, launched in 2011, is a groundbreaking web-based artwork, an ABC of revolts and revolutions, and an open-source portal into archives of the 2011 Egyptian revolution and other past and present global social movements.