Archives: Artists
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Layla Dagher was born in Beirut, Lebanon. She studied at Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (Alba) and hold her master’s degree in Visual Arts with honors. She teaches Fine Arts at Notre Dame University ( N.D.U). She took part in various group and solo shows in Beirut and has participated in numerous international exhibitions in…
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Manal Abu-Shaheen (b. 1982, Beirut) is a Lebanese-American photographer currently living and working in the Bronx, NY. Her recent solo exhibitions include Beirut, The Artist Room by Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK (2022), Mapping Utopia, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR (2021), 2d Skin, Soloway, Brooklyn, NY (2019), Theater of Dreams, Bernstein Gallery, Princeton University, NJ…
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Manar Ali Hassan is a multidisciplinary artist and curator who blurs artistic boundaries by merging diverse mediums such as painting, sculpture, digital art, and immersive installations. With a Master of Visual Arts from ALBA, she explores social and philosophical related themes and their intersection with art and technology. As a curator, she bridges contemporary and…
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Graduated from Saint Joseph University in Beirut in 2012, Melissa Chalhoub has directed and sound designed many experimental short films, and has been working as a visual artist and illustrator, translating what she learned from movie making onto paper. Melissa Chalhoub took part in many art fairs around the world, from Egypt, Amsterdam, Barcelona to…
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Mona Nahleh completed her English Literature degree from the Lebanese University in Beirut . Since, Mona has taken to her canvas to document her story. Each brushstroke a word and each divine figure a poem . Mona has formed a very unique style as well as subject matter to her art . The viewer is…
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Reem Bassous received her BA from The Lebanese American University and her MFA from The George Washington University. She started teaching drawing and painting in 2001 at The George Washington University, and taught at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa for 9 years. Reem also served as assistant professor at Leeward Community College at the…
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Sarah Richani, originally from Lebanon, is a full-time artist based in Zurich, Switzerland, since 2018. Richani works with mixed media including collage techniques, textural pastes, metal erosion and uses oil, gouache or acrylic paint on canvas or cardboard. In her art, she tackles topics related to philosophy, psychology, and society. She graduated in Fine Arts…
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Born in Beirut, Lebanon. 1945Works and Lives in Los Angeles, U.S.A Born into an Armenian family, artist Seta Manoukian grew up in Beirut, Lebanon. She began to draw at an early age and won the first prize in an art competition organized by the Italian Embassy at the age of seventeen and was sent to…
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Stéphanie Saadé was born in 1983 in Lebanon. She lives and works in Paris and Beirut. She graduated in Fine Arts from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris and was an artist in residence at Van Eyck, Maastricht and Cité des arts, Paris. She is one of the four artists selected to be part…
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Yara Chaalan is an emerging artist currently pursuing her master’s in fine arts in the Netherlands. With a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Lebanon, Yara has developed a strong foundation in painting, utilizing various mediums such as oil and watercolor. Yara’s artistic journey is characterized by a unique approach that merges her own body…
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Btihal Remli ( b. 1987, Germany out of Moroccan descent) is a visual storyteller focused on art and documentary photography. Based in Morocco, where her family is originally from, Btihal explores stories related to identity, religion and belief, gender and socio-cultural representation in her home country. She has also attempted to convey the juxtaposition between…
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Born in 1973 in Meknes (Morocco). Lives and works in Marrakech. Ghizlane Sahli embroiders, sculpts and draws. She tells of an interior and organic journey, carried by a universal dimension. With the help of ancestral techniques and the know-how of the women artisans who surround her, she develops her contemporary ideas. Together, they create three-dimensional…
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Artist statement: The history of my practice is overwhelmingly informed by my status as a hybrid migrant, a condition associated with second generation migrants. My father is Syrian, my mother Swiss and I was born in Morocco. I am therefore African .The transient nature of my evolution as a person and as an artist opened…
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Jamila Lamrani graduated from the National Institute of Fine Arts of Tetouan in 1998. The artist likes to vary techniques that support her work but space remains her favored tool. She constructs it with from a fragile architecture made from dark fabrics evocative of the secret recesses of memory, she builds infinite layers of shadow…
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Khadija El Abyad is multidisciplinary visual artist, born in 1991 in Agadir. She is a graduate of the Institut National des Beaux Arts, (Tétouan 2017) and holder of a Master’s degree in Cultural and Artistic Engineering at FLSH Ben M’Sik (Casablanca 2019). Her plastic practice is essentially built around BODY SCREENS in various dimensions: the…