Category: Lebanon
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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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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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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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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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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…