Category: Lebanon
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Mariam Ghani is an artist, writer, and filmmaker. Her work operates at the intersections of language, loss, migration, memory, and history. Her films, public projects, photographs, and installations have been presented and collected worldwide, notably in Times Square and the new Terminal C at LaGuardia Airport; the Guggenheim, New Museum, MoMA, Smithsonian, and Metropolitan Museums;…
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Born in 1981 in Beirut, Hala Dabaji spent her childhood in Ngaoundéré, Cameroun. Currently living in Beirut, she holds a degree in fine arts from ALBA (Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, Beirut) Since 2006, she has been exhibiting her paintings, photographs, drawings in Lebanon, Jordan, Ivory Coast, Italy, and the United States. Her works also include…
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Born in 1960, Katya A.Traboulsi is a Beirut based multimedia artist whose practice is characterized by the emotional intensity with which she confronts the effects of the Lebanese civil war. Both her painting and sculptural works are characterized by her bold use of color, which disrupts the viewer’s expectations of the dark subject matter they…
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Lara Tabet is a medical doctor and transdisciplinary 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. Get in touch!
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Maral Der Boghossian is Lebanese artist, born in 1976 in Paris from Armenian origin. She lives and works in Beirut and comes from a family of artists: her late mother Gulen (1951-2022) is sculptor, her late maternal uncle Haroutioun Torossian (1933-2022) is a painter and her father, a landscape painter. Their support had shaped her…
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1916 – 2017 Born in 1916 in Ain el Mreisseh, Beirut, Lebanon, Choucair came from a family of doctors, lawyers, engineers and historians. Her father, Salim Rawda (1872-1917) was an expatriate in Australia trading herbs and writing manuscripts on their medicinal values. When he returned to Lebanon in 1910, he met and married Choucair’s mother,…
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(1889 – 1973) The late Marie Chiha Hadad was born in 1889 in Beirut, Lebanon to a prominent family of bankers. She completed her education in 1908 at the exclusive French school ‘l’Ecole Des Dames De Nazareth,’ where she studied the work of the French masters in both literature and arts. Marie Chiha was married…
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(1931 – 2019) Huguette Caland was a Lebanese painter, sculptor and fashion designer known for her erotic abstract paintings and body landscapes. Based out of Los Angeles, her art was displayed in numerous exhibitions and museums around the world. Caland was born into a Lebanese political family in Beirut, Lebanon on 19 January 1931. Her…
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(1923 – 2009) Khal was an American artist and critic of Lebanese descent. Helen Khal was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania to a Lebanese American family from Tripoli, Lebanon. She started her painting career at the age of 21; when illness forced house rest, she began to draw. On a visit to Lebanon in 1946 she…
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(1930 – 2015) Derrieh Fakhoury was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1930. 1946-1951 Studied painting at the Fine Arts Academy in Beirut. in 1955, Fakhoury won a prize upon an exhibition organized by the Ministry of National Culture and Fine Arts in Beirut. Later, she was granted a scholarship to Italy to continue her studies…
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(1912 – 2011) Of Lebanese origin and nourished by the resplendence of our fiery sun, our starry skies and our landscapes full of light, Blanche Lohéac Ammoun left at a very early age to encounter the Occident. And there, in this sensitive spirit, was the union of the poetry of the Orient and the thought…
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Lara Baladi is an Egyptian-Lebanese artist, archivist and educator recognized internationally for her multidisciplinary works. Her artistic practice spans from photography, video, sculpture to architecture and multi-media installations. Informed by critical investigations into historical archives and the study of popular visual culture, Baladi’s work questions the theoretical divide between myth, memory, socio-political narratives and the…
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Born and raised in Australia, Andrea Nassar moved to Beirut to pursue a degree in Graphic Design from the American University of Beirut. After over 15 years of working in corporate and print design, and with numerous works recognized in various international design publications, she returned to her initial love for creating objects and working…
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Born in 1972, Annie Kurkdjian had to endure sixteen years of civil war in her native Beirut. Her childhood was marked by the noise of bombs, terror, permanent insecurity and the inconsistency of ordinary things. As an Armenian, she already held out the traumatism of the Armenian Genocide through the history of her grandmother. At…
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Aude Abou Nasr is a Lebanese – French illustrator and artist based in Beirut (Lebanon). She works with independent media and platforms in the Middle-East and Europe, illustrating voices that thrive to give a more relevant, accurate and critical understanding of the changes operating in both regions, within diasporas, and among some of the communities…