Born in Beirut / Lebanon 1945
1973 Graduate of the Lebanese University. Institution of Fine Arts.
1975 Graduate of the Higher National School of Decorative Arts. Paris.
1982 B.A in teaching visual arts / Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne.
1992 Master degree in visual arts / Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne.
1993 D.E.A in visual arts / Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne.
France
Founder-member of the group Arab painters in Paris 1975;
Activist in the Free Expression group, member of the Art Amateurs Goup
Lebanon
Member in the Lebanese Artists Association of Painters and Sculptors.
Participated in the works of the group Essais Modern 1995.
Teacher at Lebanese University. Institution of Fine Arts.
Contribution of Fine Art editorials in the panarab press (Al Anwar- At Safir and
Kol Al Arab) 1980-1990, about great Parisian demonstrations FIAC. SAGA and others.
Author of a thesis on the chess game and modern painting:
ECHEC, exaltation variances and metamorphosis 1992.
Private Exhibitions
1967 Ahiram Hotel - Byblos.
1972 Vendôme Hotel - Beirut.
1973 Gallery One - Beirut.
1974 Le Trou Gallery - Beirut.
1984 Espace Penta - Geneva - Switzerland.
1992 Lebanese House - Paris - France.
1995 Station des Arts - Beirut - Lebanon.
1997 Station des Arts - Beirut - Lebanon.
1997 Saint-Jean d' Orbestier Abbey - Castle of Olonne / Vendée - France.
1998 Centre Culturel Français - Beyrouth
1999 Station des Arts - Badaro, Beyrouth
Public Exhibitions
1967 - 74 Spring Exhibition - Beirut.
1968 - 69 Autumn Saloon at Sursock Museum -
Beirut
1974 - ENSAD student exhibition- Grand Palace -
Paris.
- Exhibition of the old souk - Byblos
1977 The Saloon Exhibition - Grand Palace - Paris.
1982 - 36th Saloon of New Realities - Paris.
- Biennial of the 13th district - Paris
1984 XXIX Saloon of watercolor painting - Grand Palace - Paris
1984 - Art Forum - Paris. With the tripolitain group of the Ten, Egyptian Cultural Center - Paris.
- CIAC - Paris.
1985 - XI Saloon at the fifteen mayorals f the IV
district - Paris (Medal of the AAA.)
- Lebanese House - Paris - France.
1986 -11th Exhibition Art and Concrete - Maisse -
France.
- Baghdad Art Festival - IRAQ.
- 12th Autumn Saloon at Sursock Museum -
Beirut.
1987 International Festival of Gabès - Tunisia.
1988 - Six Arab painters. At UNO - Geneva.
- Participated with the Movement Rompre le Silence for Lebanon / VI district - Paris
1989 Drawing and pastel. Dauphin d'Or - Paris.
1991 - Lebanese Painters IMA (Institut du Monde Arabe } - Paris.
- Autumn Saloon - Paris.
- Four Arab painters Zwiggetterweg Gallery
(Maya Wildevuur) - Hooghalen - Hollan
1993 Interference - Cultural Center of Clyma - Lyon - France.
1994 - Six Modern Essays. Glass Room (Ministry of
Tourism } - Beirut.
- Participation in the Lebanese Army day -
Glass Room - Beirut
- Carlton Hotel - Beirut.
1995 - Six Lebanese Painters (Massart group)
at INT Evry - France.
- Sharjah 2nd Arts Biennial 1995.
Realization of " La mémoire ouverte " mural
painting of 20 sq.m with the group "Essais
Modernes".
- Participated in the Exhibitions of the Arab
Institution for culture and fine arts ( Tripoli,
Beirut, Saida.)
- Forty Lebanese Painters. Al Riwak Al
Tachquili - Beirut
- NAWAR art exhibition / Cultural Club of
Hboub.
- Coin d'Art - Zouk Michaël - Lebanon.
- Sixty painters for the 29th world Day
of social communications - Cultural Centre
of Antélias.
- Dar Al Nadwa - Beirut - Lebanon.
1996 - Itinerant Exhibition (North-South Nostalgia),
with with the group "Essais Modernes".
in Beirut, Zahlé, Tripoli, Deir el Quamar.
French Cultural Center
- NAWAR art exhibition / Cultural Club of
Hboub.
- 9th South Exhibition - Nabatié.
- Participated in the painting Exhibition at the
ELAC, within Franco-Arab Book Exhibition
organized by Clyma, Lyon - France.
- Participated in the Massart Group Exhibition
on the occasion of the Arab Film Festival,
Fameck - France
1997 - Annual Exhibition of AAPL.
- The 3rd Arts Biennial of Sharjah.
- Lebanese cultural Week - Bahrain.
- Participated in the Exhibition of the Lebanese
Artists Association of Painters and Sculptors -
Lebanon (March: Tripoli - Saida, April: Kana - Tyr - Sarafand/Fouadville, June - Taalabaya Beirut/ Daraj Al Fan -National college - Chouf Rachaya Al Wadi, August - Army Day/
Beirut - Barouk Festival - Douma Festival,
Nabatié - Rachid Karamé Hall.(Tripoli).
Some of the Works