Lebanon - Art

John Andrew Perello, AKA JonOne is a graffiti artist, borns in 1963 in New York USA. Also known as Jon156, is an American graffiti  now living and working in Paris.   Born in New Yor...

Fernando Botero (Colombian, b.1932) is celebrated for his painted and sculpted scenes featuring animals and figures with inflated proportions, reflecting the artist’s predilection for satire, caricature, and political commentary. Born in Medellin, Colombia, Botero began exhibiting his paintings there in 1948, and later worked as a set designer in Bogotá. In the 1950s, he traveled to several different European countries, including Spain, Italy, and France, to study the work of Renaissance and Baroque masters. He also traveled to Mexico to familiarize himself with the current Mexican avant-­‐garde. Botero became renowned for the varied source material he drew upon, from Colombian folk imagery to canonical works by Diego Velázquez, Pablo Picasso, and Francisco de Goya. In his depictions of contemporary Latin American life, he portrays the poverty and violence prevalent in Colombia in somber images, as well as in his iconic inflated figures, satiric images of Latin American presidents, first ladies, and government officials. A meeting with Dorothy Miller from The Museum of Modern Art in the early 1960s proved to be a turning point in his career; she acquired his work at a time when abstraction was the celebrated idiom, and he later exhibited his work in a major exhibition at the museum, solidifying his international reputation. In the 1970s, Botero moved to Paris, where he created large figural sculptures with his signature inflated forms. He remains engaged with images of his Latin American home city, and with overtly political imagery; his recent works include large paintings of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in a direct commentary on the war in Iraq. Botero has exhibited his work at the Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, the Maillol Museum in Paris, the Palazzo Benezia in Rome, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the National Museum in Bogotá. He currently lives and works in Paris, Montecarlo, and New York. 2012–2013 Museo Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain 2012 Una celebración, Palacio Bellas Artes de México, Mexico 2012 Hommage zum 80. Geburtstag, Botero -­‐ Gemälde, Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany 2010 Art is deformation, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY (solo) Inaurgural Exhibition: Fernando Botero, David Benrimon Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Latinas!, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY 2009 Gary Nader Fine Art, Coral Gables, FL Fernando Botero: The Circus. James Goodman Gallery, New York, NY El Dolor de Colombia, Pinacoteca Diego Rivero, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico 2008 The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE 2007–2008 Botero: Oeuvres récentes, Marlborough Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco (solo) 2007 Fernando Botero: Abu Ghraib, University of California, Berkeley, CA (solo) The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, Musée National des Beaux-­‐Arts du Québec, Canada (solo) Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE (solo) New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (solo) Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY Latin Masters...

Pino Castagna was born in Castelgomberto, in the province of Vicenza, Italia, in 1932. He completed his academic studies in Verona and Venice.  Over the years, he acquired and improv...

Arman was an American-French artist best known for his unique style of found-object sculpture. Inspired by the philosophies and aesthetics of Dadaism, the artist gathered forks, inst...

Milton Avery, in full Milton Clark Avery, (born March 7, 1893, Altmar, New York, U.S.—died January 3, 1965, New York City), painter noted in his lat...

Bernard Buffet (French, 1928 – 1999) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. An extremely prolific artist, he produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was excl...

Helen Khal grew up in a Lebanese family in Pennsylvania. In 1946, she went to live in Lebanon for two years, studying painting at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts in Beirut, and meeting the artists Shafic Abboud...

BORN • Baghdad, 1963 EDUCATION • 1987 B.A. in Painting, Academy of Fine Arts, Baghdad SOLO EXHIBITIONS • 1994 Graphic Expiation, Riwaq Gallery, Baghdad • 2000 French Cultural Centre, Amman • 2001 French Cultural Cnetre, Doha • 2002 Steel and Asphalt Memory, French Cultural Centre, Doha • 2004 Blocks, Orfali Gallery, Amman • 2007 Beard Land, Karmin Gallery, Amman • 2008 Beard Code, Sultan Gallery, Kuwait • 2011 Yusuf, Al Bareh Art Gallery, Bahrain • 2012 Rosewater, Wade Wilson Art Gallery, Houston Texas • 2014 The Truth, Wade Wilson Art Gallery, Houston Texas • 2015 Reconquista, Meem Gallery Dubai • 2016 Criterion, Albareh Gallery, Manamam Bahrain GROUP EXHIBTIONS • 1985 Fredrickstad Biennale, Fredrickstad • 1997 Environment and Surroundings in Iraqi Art, Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts • 1997 Amman Homage to Jawad Selim...

Born in Lebanon, Daisy Abi Jaber studied at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris. She had participated in several individual and gro...

He has participated in over sixty group Art Shows and biennales since 1968 including Rochester Memorial museum 1974, Low Art Centre, Syracuse 1975, Soursouk Museum, Beirut, 1984-2008...

Born in Beirut in 1973, Yedalian is a Lebanese-Armenian painter and sculptor. He studied Etching at the Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts “ALBA”, and Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine...

  “I paint portraits because I am obsessed with the beauty of close-up human faces. I have always spent hours watching faces from behind a camera with a good zoom, and I guess that i...

He has participated in over sixty group Art Shows and biennales since 1968 including Rochester Memorial museum 1974, Low Art Centre, Syracuse 1975, Soursouk Museum, Beirut, 1984-2008...

George Merheb was born in Lebanon in 1960 where he currently works and resides. He obtained a Master’s degree in Drawing and Painting from the Lebanese University of Beirut, Lebanon....

Unique Artwork by Fatima El-Hajj. The artist was born in Lebanon in 1953, graduated from the Lebanese University’s Fine Arts Institution, the completed a second degree at the Lening...

Arman was an American-French artist best known for his unique style of found-object sculpture. Inspired by the philosophies and aesthetics of Dadaism, the artist gathered forks, inst...

  “I paint portraits because I am obsessed with the beauty of close-up human faces. I have always spent hours watching faces from behind a camera with a good zoom, and I guess that i...

DANIEL SAMPER AVENDAÑO (COLOMBIAN, b. 1980) “I explore the art overlapping paint lines and dots that are dispose systematically over canvas, giving a three-dimensional character to the work, making the silence shadow and the inevitable movement to take leadership.” – Daniel S. INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS: 2021 “Pendiendo de un Hilo” Galeria Arte Alto, Medellin, Colombia. 2015 “Fronteras” Galería Naranjo & Velilla, Medellin, Colombia. 2014 “Movimiento Paciente”  Galería Otros 360 Grados, Bogota, Colombia. 2012 "Los capricho del agua y del viento", Galería Alcorriente, Bogota, Colombia. 2011 "Espacios Develados", Galería Alcorriente Arte, Bogotá, Colombia. COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS: 2016 Galería 18 PTY ciudad de Panamá, Panamá. 2014 Galería Otros 360 Grados, Bogotá, Colombia. 2013 Galería Otros 360 Grados, Bogotá, Colombia. 2013 Galería Alcorriente Arte, Bogotá, Colombia. 2012 Galería Otros 360 Grados, Bogotá, Colombia. 2012 Galería Alcorriente Arte, Bogotá, Colombia. ART FAIRS: 2019 ArtParis, Paris, Francia. Galeria Mark Hachem...

DANIEL SAMPER AVENDAÑO (COLOMBIAN, b. 1980) “I explore the art overlapping paint lines and dots that are dispose systematically over canvas, giving a three-dimensional character to the work, making the silence shadow and the inevitable movement to take leadership.” – Daniel S. INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS: 2021 “Pendiendo de un Hilo” Galeria Arte Alto, Medellin, Colombia. 2015 “Fronteras” Galería Naranjo & Velilla, Medellin, Colombia. 2014 “Movimiento Paciente”  Galería Otros 360 Grados, Bogota, Colombia. 2012 "Los capricho del agua y del viento", Galería Alcorriente, Bogota, Colombia. 2011 "Espacios Develados", Galería Alcorriente Arte, Bogotá, Colombia. COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS: 2016 Galería 18 PTY ciudad de Panamá, Panamá. 2014 Galería Otros 360 Grados, Bogotá, Colombia. 2013 Galería Otros 360 Grados, Bogotá, Colombia. 2013 Galería Alcorriente Arte, Bogotá, Colombia. 2012 Galería Otros 360 Grados, Bogotá, Colombia. 2012 Galería Alcorriente Arte, Bogotá, Colombia. ART FAIRS: 2019 ArtParis, Paris, Francia. Galeria Mark Hachem...

Arman was an American-French artist best known for his unique style of found-object sculpture. Inspired by the philosophies and aesthetics of Dadaism, the artist gathered forks, inst...

Bernard Buffet (French, 1928 – 1999) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. An extremely prolific artist, he produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was excl...

DANIEL SAMPER AVENDAÑO (COLOMBIAN, b. 1980) “I explore the art overlapping paint lines and dots that are dispose systematically over canvas, giving a three-dimensional character to ...

Sara Shamma is a renowned painter whose works can be found in both public and private collections around the globe. Shamma was born in Damascus, Syria (197...

Born in Beirut in 1973, Yedalian is a Lebanese-Armenian painter and sculptor. He studied Etching at the Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts “ALBA”, and Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine...

Arnaud creates elegant and solemn oil paintings of a dark and heavy experiences. The surfaces are thickened by paint, like tweed tapestries of labor-intensive strokes. They create a ...

Early Life and Education: Ghazi Baker, a proponent of Neo-expressionism, was born in 1967 in the vibrant city of Beirut, Lebanon. Raised amidst the rich cultural tapestry of Lebanon, Baker's early years were influenced by the eclectic blend of history, art, and tumultuous social dynamics of the region. In 1991, Baker graduated with distinction from the esteemed American University in Beirut, earning a degree in architecture (B. Arch). This academic pursuit not only honed his technical skills but also instilled in him a profound appreciation for spatial dynamics, form, and structure—a foundation that would later shape his distinctive artistic style. Artistic Journey: Despite his architectural training, Baker felt an irresistible pull towards the realm of visual arts. Fueled by an innate passion for creativity and expression, he embarked on a transformative journey into the world of painting. Drawing inspiration from his surroundings, Baker immersed himself in the vibrant palette of pop art and Neo-expressionism— movements characterized by i bold colors, emotive brushwork, and introspective themes.   Neo-expressionist Evolution: Baker's artistic evolution unfolded against the backdrop of a rapidly changing world. His works reflect a profound engagement with the human condition, exploring themes of identity, displacement, and the universal quest for meaning. Through his dynamic compositions and visceral imagery, Baker invites viewers to delve beneath the surface.   International Recognition: Over the years, Baker's distinctive style has garnered widespread acclaim, earning him recognition on the international stage. His works have been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, captivating audiences with their raw energy and emotional resonance. From New York to Paris...

Born in Baghdad in 1939, Dia Azzawi started his artistic career in 1964, after graduating from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad and completing a degree...

Arnaud creates elegant and solemn oil paintings of a dark and heavy experiences. The surfaces are thickened by paint, like tweed tapestries of labor-intensive strokes. They create a ...

Born in Beirut in 1973, Yedalian is a Lebanese-Armenian painter and sculptor. He studied Etching at the Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts “ALBA”, and Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine...

Sculptor Alfred Basbous (1924 - 2006) was born in Rachana, Lebanon. His works express a lifelong exploration of the human form and its abstract propert...

French painter, sculptor, engraver, James Coignard was born in Tours in 1925. He lived and worked in Antibes, in the Maritime Alps, and he died in March 2008. Coignard began his studies in 1948 at the School of Fine Arts in Nice; however, his journey as an artist began in the Côte d'Azur, where he settled. In fact, Coignard traveled a lot, living for a period from 1985 to 1988 in New Orleans. His artistic career was marked by collective and personal exhibitions both in France and abroad (Sweden, Switzerland, the United States...), where he enjoyed fame and recognition. Until the 1960s, his artistic development was characterized by an expressionistic style; then Coignard found himself moving towards an abstract one with random spots, regular shapes, typographical characters, and mixed media backgrounds. He was a painter but also a sculptor, who experimented with bronze and with glass. His work as an engraver was also quite well-known. James Coignard created his first glass sculpture in the 1970s at the Fucina degli Angeli. Only later, after meeting Adriano Berengo...

Ben Abounassif was born in Caracas in 1964 to Lebanese parents. He graduated from Tennessee Tech University in 1987 with a B.A. in Business Management. Abounassif's first contact working in the art world was in 2006 when he launched Leiter Gallery in Miami, a short but successful experience as a co-owner working along with Cuban-born, Miami-based artist Sinuhe Vega Leiter, and Venezuelan-born internationalist & journalist, Jesus Rojas Torres. Abounassif's innate creativity was highly influenced by working closely with local artists and by visiting their studios and launching exhibitions at Leiter's, the only gallery in the U.S. that paid a living tribute to the late Cuban musician, Israel “Cachao" López. A year later in 2007, Abounassif exhibited his first art cube on Photo Miami '07 with Hardcore Contemporary Art in Wynwood. In 2008, Miami art dealer...

Henry Spencer Moore OM CH FBA (30 July 1898 – 31 August 1986) was an English artist. He is best known for his semi-abstract monumental bronze sculptures which are located around the ...

Ihab Ahmad is a painter and sculptor based in Lebanon whose works have been exhibited in China, Italy, the United Arab Emirates, and France. He describes the majority of his pieces a...

Since the 1940s, the Egyptian painter Hamed Abdalla is not only a visionary pioneer of modern art for the global south and Arab countries; he is also one of the first of his generation to envision painting as political art and activism. The current display focuses on a specific time of defeat and disillusion for a whole generation of Arab artists and intellectuals, in the aftermath of the “Six Days War” led by Israel and their allies (a war title which a lot of Arab activists consider propagandist, preferring to call it “The Defeat of 1967” or simply the “June 1967 War”). This persistent ideological wound became the symbol of failed dreams for the “Arab Nation” or Arab states alliances – including the short but emblematic Egyptian-Syrian achievement of the United Arab Republic. Another major failure, to which Abdalla will respond through the paintings on display here, is the Egyptian President Anwar Sadat program of “opening up” (Infitah) the Egyptian economy and give way to political compromise with the US and Israel – Abdalla assimilating this period to a vast state of Coma for all Arab people and territories. In a collective statement by a group of Egyptian artists exiled in Paris (including Abdalla), published in the Egyptian local journal Al-Dustur, on 5 December 1977, one can read: “This disaster is far greater than the defeat of June 1967. Rather, it approaches the scale of the disaster that took place in 1948 (…) To destroy the Arab people’s noble three decades-long struggle against imperialism and Zionism (…) Sadat is exploiting the stifling economic crisis that Egypt is currently facing (…) We must resist this betrayal of our nation or be crushed under the wheels of global imperialism for generations to come.” The works presented here reflect Abdalla’s transformation of the Hurrufiyyah aesthetics, to achieve his own way of “Arab Letterism”. It claims for a deeply experimental, non-decorative, politically committed and non-commercial use of the Arabic letter...

Ben Abounassif was born in Caracas in 1964 to Lebanese parents. He graduated from Tennessee Tech University in 1987 with a B.A. in Business Management. Abounassif's first contact working in the art world was in 2006 when he launched Leiter Gallery in Miami, a short but successful experience as a co-owner working along with Cuban-born, Miami-based artist Sinuhe Vega Leiter, and Venezuelan-born internationalist & journalist, Jesus Rojas Torres. Abounassif's innate creativity was highly influenced by working closely with local artists and by visiting their studios and launching exhibitions at Leiter's, the only gallery in the U.S. that paid a living tribute to the late Cuban musician, Israel “Cachao" López. A year later in 2007, Abounassif exhibited his first art cube on Photo Miami '07 with Hardcore Contemporary Art in Wynwood. In 2008, Miami art dealer...

Bernard Buffet (French, 1928 – 1999) was a French painter, printmaker, and sculptor. An extremely prolific artist, he produced a varied and extensive body of work. His style was excl...

George Merheb was born in Lebanon in 1960 where he currently works and resides. He obtained a Master’s degree in Drawing and Painting from the Lebanese University of Beirut, Lebanon....

Philippe Hiquily (1925 – 2013) is a French artist and designer known for biomorphic furniture and sculptures. He was able to combine modernist design, insect physiognomy, and human s...

Salamoun describes herself as a dedicated observer of human evolution and the ever-shifting tides of change. Fueled by her profound fascination with the human experience and her pass...

Victor Ekpuk is a Nigerian-American artist based in Washington, DC.  His art, which began as an exploration of nsibidi “traditional” graphics and writing systems in Nigeria, has evol...

“Her paintings show an absence of concession, a search for a personal world, for a harmony that is born from contradictory sentiments, between tranquillity and revolt, dreams and dou...

After a struggle spanning the seventies, eighties and nineties, the wrapping of the Reichstag was completed on June 24, 1995 by a work force of 90 professional climbers and 120 insta...

Fabbri was born in Quarrata (Tuscany). At the age of 12, he attended the Scuola d'Arte in Pistoia and then, under the instruction of the painter Fabio Casanova, he decided to embark on an artistic career and created his first sculptures, mainly using the wax and plaster. In 1932 Fabbri, in order to continue his education at the Accademia di Belle Arti, moved to Florence where he frequented the artists' Caffè Giubbe Rosse, meeting point for the intellectuals known as the Ermetici Group (Eugenio Montale, Carlo Bo, etc.) and also came into contact with the painter Ottone Rosai and the poet Mario Luzi. At the end of the year he moved to Albisola (Savona), where he worked in the La Fiamma...

Salamoun describes herself as a dedicated observer of human evolution and the ever-shifting tides of change. Fueled by her profound fascination with the human experience and her pass...

Alexandra Gestin (b. 1967) is a French artist from Guérande, a small town located in the West of France. A number of amazing voyages gave her, her passion for art. In North Africa, h...

Alexandra Gestin (b. 1967) is a French artist from Guérande, a small town located in the West of France. A number of amazing voyages gave her, her passion for art. In North Africa, h...

Born in Baghdad in 1939, Dia Azzawi started his artistic career in 1964, after graduating from the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad and completing a degree...

B. Yaghi is a Lebanese contemporary artist born in 1984. Having lived in several countries, B. Yaghi soaked up the rich cultures of Beirut, London, Miami and Dubai, and was immersed ...

Missak Terzian is a Lebanese-American contemporary visual artist of Armenian descent born in 1949 in Beirut. Renowned for his semi-abstract figurative and modern abstract expressioni...

Missak Terzian is a Lebanese-American contemporary visual artist of Armenian descent born in 1949 in Beirut. Renowned for his semi-abstract figurative and modern abstract expressioni...

Nadim Karam is a Lebanese artist, architect, and urban planner known for his diverse body of work that includes sculpture, painting, installations, and urban interventions. Born in 1...

Born in Beirut in 1973, Yedalian is a Lebanese-Armenian painter and sculptor. He studied Etching at the Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts “ALBA”, and Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Art Toros Roslin. Some of the artist’s works are on view in permanent collections including: Sursock Museum (Beirut), Vatican City (Rome), Modern and Contemporary Art Museum “MACAM” (Lebanon), Museum of the Shrine of Fatima...

Missak Terzian is a Lebanese-American contemporary visual artist of Armenian descent born in 1949 in Beirut. Renowned for his semi-abstract figurative and modern abstract expressioni...

George Merheb was born in Lebanon in 1960 where he currently works and resides. He obtained a Master’s degree in Drawing and Painting from the Lebanese University of Beirut, Lebanon....

Artistic perceptions are deeply subjective experiences that engage our imagination, emotions, and sensitivity. They allow us to see the world through the eyes of artists and connect ...

Nadim Karam is a Lebanese artist, architect, and urban planner known for his diverse body of work that includes sculpture, painting, installations, and urban interventions. Born in 1...

Nadim Karam is a Lebanese artist, architect, and urban planner known for his diverse body of work that includes sculpture, painting, installations, and urban interventions. Born in 1...

Nadim Karam is a Lebanese artist, architect, and urban planner known for his diverse body of work that includes sculpture, painting, installations, and urban interventions. Born in 1...

George Merheb was born in Lebanon in 1960 where he currently works and resides. He obtained a Master’s degree in Drawing and Painting from the Lebanese University of Beirut, Lebanon....