A unique & curated international platform for creative publications & artists' books from or of the Middle East, North Africa, & South Asia.
Fully Booked is a unique & curated international platform for creative publications & artists' books from or of the Middle East, North Africa, & South Asia, anchored by having produced three annual editions of the Dubai art book fair. The flagship namesake fair—the first of its kind in the Gulf—premiered in 2017 in Alserkal Avenue, during the annual Dubai Art Week.
Fully Booked Co-Founders
Anthony Tino & Daphne Taranto
fullybookedfair@gmail.com
We appreciate the guidance & continuing support of Christina Skaf, Farah Al Qasimi, Raneen Bukhari, Sarah Alfarhan, Sarah Burney, Shahrzad Changalvaee, Somnath Bhatt, & Zandie Brockett.
We commissioned & produced five distinct Benefit Editions in order to make the 2019 fair a reality, in close collaboration with Mazin Al-Maimani, Shamma Buhazza, Shahrzad Changalvaee, Somnath Bhatt, & VVORK VVORK VVORK. These Editions are now available through our inventory & directly via the artists. Full descriptions of the Editions may be found at the archive link for the successfully crowdfunded Kickstarter campaign.
Identity by Alice Taranto
Site Design & Dev by Lukas
Photography by Helga Traxler
Set in Sporting Grotesque & Italian Oldstyle
Fully Booked has exhibited as a vendor in the following international art book fairs, featuring curated materials that are often rare, hard to find, or in limited distribution.
Melbourne Art Book Fair at the National Gallery of Victoria
March 2020
Odds & Ends Art Book Fair at Yale
December 2019
Chicago Art Book Fair
November 2019
FLAT (Fiera Libro Arte Torino, Italy)
November 2019
Northampton Print & Book Fair (Massachusetts)
September 2019
Printed Matter's New York Art Book Fair
September 2019
Happy Family Night Market at Abrons Arts Center (New York)
July 2019
Press Play Book & Music Fair at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn)
June 2019
Brooklyn Art Book Fair
June 2019
Ghent Art Book Fair (Belgium)
May 2019
Printed Matter's Los Angeles Art Book Fair
April 2019
Booked: Tai Kwun Contemporary’s Hong Kong Art Book Fair
January 2019
Odds & Ends Art Book Fair at Yale
December 2018
Chicago Art Book Fair
November 2018
Boston Art Book Fair
October 2018
Printed Matter's New York Art Book Fair
September 2018
Press Play Book & Music Fair at Pioneer Works (Brooklyn)
August 2018
San Francisco Art Book Fair
July 2018
Art Book in China (abC) Fair
June 2018
Philadelphia Art Book Fair
June 2018
Brooklyn Art Book Fair
May 2018
Odds & Ends Art Book Fair at Yale
December 2017
Chicago Art Book Fair
November 2017
Vancouver Art Book Fair
October 2017
BABZ (Bushwick Art Book & Zine) Fair
June 2017
We have placed titles in the following international permanent collections, making the materials available to researchers & the public.
— Jameel Arts Centre/Art Jameel, Art Library
— Asia Art Archive in America
— British Library, Arabic Collections
— Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M, Madrid), Library
— Getty Research Institute
— Institute of Contemporary Art Indian Ocean (Mauritius), Salim Currimjee Contemporary Art Library
— Kochi Biennale Foundation
— Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Decker Library
— Metropolitan Museum of Art, Watson Library
— The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Library
— San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), Library & Archives
— School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), Flaxman Library: Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection
— School of the Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA Boston), Clark Library
— School of Visual Arts (SVA), Riso Lab Archive
— Tai Kwun Contemporary, Artists' Book Library
— University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, Davis Library
— University of Pennsylvania (UPenn), Van Pelt Libraries
— Walker Art Center, Library & Archives