Category: Lebanon
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Audrée Anid is an artist, curator, and writer. Audrée was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan to Lebanese immigrant parents and was raised in New York City. She holds a BA from Wesleyan University in Connecticut and an MA from Teachers College, Columbia University in New York. Her visual art practice spans photography, painting, and printmaking;…
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Aya Haidar (b. 1985, lives and works in London) is a multimedia artist; her work focuses on the use of found and recycled objects exploring loss, migration, memory, labour, domesticity and womanhood. Her hand-embroidered interventions onto culturally and historically specific objects, unfold silenced and authentic narratives around socially and politically engaged issues. Aya Haidar graduated…
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A multidisciplinary Lebanese‐Armenian architect and visual artist, currently based in the vibrant city of London. Her artistic journey is a fusion of two diverse worlds, combining the precision of architecture with the freedom of visual art. Her canvas is a unique space where bold, radiant colors come together to capture the vibrancy that resides within…
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Azza Alameddine has been working as a graphic & type designer in the UK and Spain. Her goal is to bring more awareness to graphic and type designers in the Middle East about the added value of good typography in visual communication. Azza specializes in Arabic branding and tries through her work to preserve the…
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Danièle Chikhani (born in Beirut, Lebanon) is an Architect by training, she worked in this field in Lebanon and in Paris, where she lived from 1985 to 2006. She returned from France to her native Lebanon in 2006, and now lives in Beirut. Daniele began to use photography in 1978, in parallel with her studies…
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Dzovig Arnelian was born on March 6, 1996 in Beirut, Lebanon, into a family of musicians. Although she spent her first years listening to music, it was painting that caught her attention, and thus from the age of 13 she started to express herself through art. She has enrolled in the Lebanese University, where she…
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Born in Beirut, Lebanon, Ghada Jamal started painting in the early 80s and continued her studies at Beirut University College. She immigrated to the United States of America and earned a Master degree in Fine Arts in Drawing and Painting from CSULB in 1990. lived in California till her return to Lebanon in 2002. Over…
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Ghada Zoghbi is a Lebanese artist, born in Shmestar in 1980. At 18,she moved to Beirut to enroll in art teachers’ college, and in 2010,she earned a degree in Fine Art from the Lebanese University. Her first solo show, “Regimes of the Personal”, took place in 2016, at Artspace Hamra Gallery, Beirut where she presented…
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Haibat Balaa Bawab is a Lebanese artist mainly known for her collage artworks. Haibat Balaa weaves narratives of Beirut and its people in her collages and in her oil paintings. Born in the city and having lived in it all of her life, the day-to-day scenes have had an effect on her and were translated…
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Lara Atallah is a multidisciplinary artist and writer. Her practice explores the political dimensions of landscape, probing both the futility and fluidity of borders as man-made constructs. Her work has been exhibited in the US and internationally and is part of the NYU Langone Collection and the Met Museum, among others. Her writing has appeared…
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Lara Chahine lives and works in Lebanon. She is a self-taught freelance photographer and researcher. Her project “Bless Your Beauty,” created with the Arab Documentary Photography Program is her first long-term documentary project and the starting point of her career as an image-maker. Her approach to photography is spontaneous, and her goal is to interpret…
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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…