Lara Tabet is a medical doctor and trans-disciplinary artist working at the intersection of art, ecology, biomedical science and politics. She works across multiple formats including experimental photography, installation, video and bio-art. Her recent work blends research science with fiction and autobiography in relation to water, toxicity and the mutiscalar entanglements between microscopic exchanges and global flow. 

In 2012, after finishing her specialization in Clinical Pathology at the American University of Beirut, Tabet graduated from the International Center of Photography in New York and was the recipient of the Lisette Model scholarship. 

Her work has been shown throughoutt the Arab world, Europe and the U.S.A. Tabet received grants from STARTS, DRAC, CNAP, AFAC, Al-Mawred. She was the recipient of the Arte East fellowship in 2016 and was awarded the Sursock Museum Prize in 2018. 

She was an artist in residence at Musee Nicephore Niepce, La cite internationale des arts in Paris, the National Center of Biotechnology in Madrid, La Becque in Switzerland, Tara scientific boat and the Camargo Fondation. In 2022, she was awarded the Prince Claus mentorship award for cultural and artistic response to environmental change. 

Tabet has taught photography at the American University of Beirut and at the International Summer Academy in Salzburg.