Archives: Artists
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Born in Lebanon in 1978.Lives and works between Beirut and Marseille. In 2005, she won first prize in photography at the 5th Francophone Games. She was also awarded the No Limit prize at the Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles in 2006, an international prize which rewards an artist whose work takes photography beyond the boundaries of the…
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Born in 1996, Rahma Lhoussig is a visual artist from Taroudant, Morocco, graduated from the National Institute of Fine Arts of Tetouan. Rahma’s artwork is characterized by a captivating blend of animals, everyday objects, and nature. Her compositions emanate a familiar atmosphere, where dissonant elements coexist harmoniously. Animals, flowers, insects, and tools intertwine, creating a…
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Nagham Hodaifa’s work explores the human condition through the representation of the body and/or by its disappearance. She includes questions such as intimacy/desire, inner/physical, nature/pollution, threshold/ending, birth/death and the notion of what we leave behind to nature. As a painter, she creates using various materials and different techniques. Her painting materializes on different scales: on…
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Safadi was born in Majdal Shams (The Occupied Golan Heights) in 1982, and is based in Ramallah. She is a visual artist, a tutor and a founding member of Fateh Mudarris Center for Arts and Culture in Majdal Shams. Safadi, a visionary artist born with a palette of creativity, has woven an inspiring narrative through…
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Samia Muhammad Khashoggi was born in 1958 in the city of Abha (Saudi Arabia). She holds a Master’s degree in Fine Arts from Montfort University, Leicester and a Bachelor’s degree in Interior Design from Kingston University in Britain. She is an artist, curator, researcher and educator. Khashoggi is the first Saudi woman to work as…
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Ranging from painting and sculpture to performance and multimedia installation, the artistic practice of Dana Awartani (Saudi Arabia/Palestine) imbues forms, techniques, concepts, and spatial constructs that define Arab culture with contemporary awareness. Her work spans a variety of materials and techniques and often revolves around reinterpreting geometric patterns as a highly codified and philosophical mode…
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Afraa Ahmed (b.1992, Yemen), currently based in Cairo, is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work includes installation, sculpture, photography and video. She holds a degree in Multimedia Technology from Asia Pacific University in Malaysia. There she began to explore the ways familiarity and ‘safety’ of home stay within us even after being disconnected. Her work has…
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Helen Zughaib was born in Beirut, Lebanon, living mostly in the Middle East and Europe before moving to the United States to study art at Syracuse University, earning her BFA from the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Her work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States, Europe and Lebanon.…
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Working primarily in photography and video, Maha Maamoun’s work has been presented by many institutions worldwide including Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; MoMA, New York; ICP, New York; New Museum, New York; MuHKA, Antwerp; MATHAF – Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo; Beirut Art Center, Beirut; Makan, Amman; Steirischer Herbst,…
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Born in 1955, Greta Naufal is a visual artist and art educator. She started studying painting under John Guvder in 1967 and later at l’Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts under the tutelage of the pioneers of Lebanese modern art (Yvette Achkar, Seta Manoukian, Aref El Rayess, Rafik Charaf, Jamil Malaeb, Nadia Saikaly and Amine El Bacha).…
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Moira Ali is an Egyptian graphic designer and illustrator. She holds a bachelor’s degree in graphic design from the Faculty of Applied Sciences & Arts at the German University in Cairo (GUC), and holds a master’s degree from L’École Européenne Supérieure d’Arts de Bretagne (Eesab) in Lorient, France. Since 2016, Moira has been working as…
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Leila Ghandchi (b.1982, Tehran, Iran) is a PhD candidate in Teaching German as a Foreign Language at Azad University in Tehran, Iran. Ghandchi studied painting under the tutelage of Manouchehr Motabar, a well-known Iranian painter, in addition to serving as his teaching assistant from 2000 to 2004. Her paintings cover a wide variety of themes.…
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Magda Saad El Din, was born on July 26, 1952, in Monufia, Egypt. Her childhood and adolescence were spent in a grand house overlooking the Shibin El Kom River, a significant tributary of the majestic Nile. Magda embarked on her artistic journey by enrolling in the Faculty of Fine Arts in Alexandria in 1970, culminating…
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Born to an Austrian mother and a Lebanese father, Tanya spent her early childhood in Beirut. Growing up between two very different cultures, she experienced not only cultural enrichment but also a profound alienation from the concept of “home”. This sense of disruption and search defines Tanya’s photographic work throughout the years. Later on, while…
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Interdisciplinary and award winning artist Doris Bittar explores overlapping patterns, decorative motifs and text within the context of historical legacies. Bittar views patterns as cultural DNA mutating in tandem with human migration. Bittar, an Artist Legacy awardee by the California Arts Council, has been recognized for artistic accomplishments and mentoring of young artists (2023). She…