Category: Painting
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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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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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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…
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Malika Sqalli is a multicultural and multilingual artist who uses photography as a medium which shows “reality” in new ways, or, as the great critic John Berger put it, her images are a way of “catching the frame between the frame”, and that frame can be an idea or an emotion in the mind that…
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Mariam Abouzid Souali bears witness to contemporary social, geopolitical, and environmental challenges on local, global, and universal scales. Her recent works immerse us in the world of childhood and the Olympic Games. However, her characters navigate through strange landscapes: containers, highways, mining fields, industrial ports, and many other symbols of overexploitation, climate crises, and migrations.…
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Born in 1992 in Rabat (Morocco), Yasmine Hadni studied at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Art Villa Arson in Nice, then earned a master’s degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is primarily a painter, while also exploring other forms of expression including video, drawing, sound and printmaking. Her works demonstrate technical…
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Art is her life journey! A Palestinian, born in Jerusalem, currently living in Dubai. Her modern abstract and Religious art is A Call for Peace, from the Holy Land to the Holy Land to all the ends of the earth. Her Hometown Ramallah, Palestine where she lived till age 21, had a great impact on…
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Zahra BuAli is a painter, printmaker, sculptor, and ceramist. From the figurative to the abstract, to the mixed media, she works with a multi-layered approach. Combines mediums and techniques, challenges boundaries, superimposes layers of form, color, and space. Her work is strongly linked to her constant search into identity, cultural history, and influences. A professional…