Category: Painting
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Shadia was born in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, and became a well-known artist in the Arab World. She is a painter, photographer and creates installations. Starting as a painter, Shadia’s work switched to bigger volumes that found their way moving out of the canvas and into space. In part of her work, Shadia documents phenomena along…
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Nagat M.A. Elmahi is an accomplished educationist, painter, and designer with over 20 years of experience. She is a British of Sudanese origin, born and raised in El-Fasher, Sudan. She currently doubles up as a lecturer and the head of the painting department at the College of Fine and Applied Art (CFAA) at Sudan University.…
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Cham Chahda is a Syrian/ Canadian artist and pianist born in 1982 into a family of artists. Her parents were both established artists in their own right, and they nurtured Cham’s artistic talents from an early age. Encouraged by her father’s love for classical music, Cham began taking piano lessons and quickly discovered a talent…
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Rana Hatmal’s experience as an architect influences the construction and design of her art. Her use of space is minimalistic yet sufficient to express the richness of her inspirations. As a result, her work juxtaposes complementarity and contrast between the subjects depicted and the colors used. This duality originates in the older religions of the…
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Valia Abou AlFadel, a distinguished Syrian artist known for her proficiency in illustration and creative art direction, has made significant contributions to the world of visual arts. A graduate of “The High Institute of Fine Arts and civil preparatory education,” Valia is a proud member of the Union of Plastic Artists in Syria and holds…
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Born in Damascus in 1990, she graduated from the University of Fine Arts in Damascus in 2013. Her surrealist paintings focus on the human body and its relationship with war, whether with distorted parts, abstract shapes, or as composite elements in hybrid shapes. After her graduation, Waad exhibited in several joint exhibitions and workshops in…
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Emna Zghal is a Brooklyn-based visual artist. She was trained in both Tunisia and the United States and has shown her work in both countries and beyond. Her images of vast imagined spaces echo the patterns of nature and their infinite variety. And while the colors of her paintings, drawings and prints are surreal, they…
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Self-taught artist, Khedija Essaied Jeddi (1976), looks at the world through the eyes of an eternal child. The artist uses her sensitivity to subjects, some of which are recurring in her reflection, to deliver narrative work, mixing texts, embroidery, painting and pastels. Her artistic work is constructed and fleshed out mainly around issues that are…
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Gözde İlkin (b. 1981, Kütahya) uses painting and stitching to create works on repurposed domestic fabrics. Solo shows include The Eye of the Earth, The Mouth of the Ground (2022); Entrusted Ground, artSümer, Istanbul (2022); The Trap, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo (2016); Stained Estate, Françoise Heitsch Gallery, Munich (2015); and Please Clear the Dance Floor, artSümer,…
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Hanan Abdullah Salem Bahamdan is a portrait painter who has exhibited all over the Middle East and Europe. In 2005 she became Sotheby’s first female Saudi artist when her oil portrait painting Mannci sold at three times its top estimate, at the auction house’s first sale of modern and contemporary Arab and Iranian art. Thus,…
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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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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.…