sumayyah samaha
artist
 
  SoHo New York
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS  
2008 Skoto Gallery, "Darkness Ushers Dawn", NYC
2007 Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, "Love, Life and Pain", NYC
2004 Blink Gallery, "Personal Landscapes", Andes, NY
2002 Denise Bibro Fine Art, "Strange Fruit", recent paintings, NYC
2000 Denise Bibro Fine Art, Recent Paintings, NYC
1999 Denise Bibro Fine Art, "Beyond the Brush", NYC
1998 Farleigh Dickinson University, Paintings, Hackensack, NJ
1997 Denise Bibro Fine Art, Recent Paintings & Pastels, NYC
1995 Denise Bibro Fine Art, Recent Works, SoHo, NYC
1994 Denise Bibro Fine Art, "Landscapes: Where My Soul Roams", SoHo, NYC
1993 Kenkelaba Gallery, Four Artists-solo shows, NYC
1982 22 Wooster Gallery, "NYC 1981" , 22 Wooster Gallery, NYC
1981 22 Wooster Gallery, NYC
 
MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
2005 "In / Visible - Contemporary Art by Arab American Artists"
Opening of The Arab American National Museum and Cultural Center
Dearborn, Michigan (featured work: "Palestine Fence" see Works on Paper)
1994 Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, "American Abstraction: A new Decade", Loretto, PA
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Blink Gallery, Andes, NY, 3 person show
2006 "3 Arab Painters in New York: Samia Halaby, Sumayyah Samaha, Athir Shayota"
Curated by Maymanah Farhat, The Bridge Gallery, NY, NY
  Blink Gallery, Andes, NY, 3 person show
2005 "Real Compared to What; Artistic Expression as a wrench in the system -- not a cog in the wheel." Gallery 128, 128 Rivington Street, NY, NY
  "Pieces 6", Gallery 128
128 Rivington Street, NY, NY
2004 "Y W" [Why War, Why Dubya?]
Viridian Gallery, Chelsea, NYC, NY
2003 "New York Collection 2002", Albert Knox Museum Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  WAR ART, Judson Memorial Church, NYC, NY
  DEFIANCE, Udi Aloni Project Room 529 West 20th NYC, NY
2002 Albert Knox Museum Gallery, "New York Collection 2002", Buffalo, NY
2001 Gallery Onetwentyeight, (128 Rivington Street), Ceramic and Oils, 3 person show
2000 Williamsburgh Art and Historical Center, Local papers, Brooklyn, NY
A.I.R. Gallery, Generations II: survey of women artists at the Millenium, NYC
128 Rivington Street Gallery, invitational exhibition, NYC
1999 International Exhibitions, Art In Embassies, American Embassy, Beirut, Lebanon
Albright Knox Museum Gallery, New York Abstractions, Buffalo, NY
Denise Bibro Fine Art, Group Invitational, NYC
1995 128 Rivington Street Gallery, Group Exhibition, NYC
1992 Denise Bibro Fine Art, Abstraction I, SoHo, NYC
SoHo Art Space, Juxtapositions, Four Artists, Curated by Virginia Cuppaidge, NYC
Marine Midland Bank, Spare Parts, Collages from the 19 Painters and Printmakers, Curated by Peggy Hadden, NYC
1991 Platform Gallery, "Three Painters", Beirut, Lebanon
1990 Triplex Gallery, Shapeshifters, Borough of Manhattan Community College, NYC
International Monetary Fund, Two Person Exhibition, Washington, D.C.
1989 The Studio American Collection, Travelling Exhibition, Poland
Cityscapes, Window Installation, 480 Broome Street, NYC, Funded by Con Edison and New York Community for Artists
1988 Kufa Gallery, Contemporary Lebanese Artists, London, England. Catalogue.
1986 Contemporary Arab Art in the US, sponsored by the US-Arab Chamber of Commerce, NYC. Catalogue
Galerie Pablo Picasso, Chenal Group, Denain, France. Catalogue.
1985 22 Wooster Gallery, Two Person Exhibition, NYC
Northside Arts Industries, Artists at Northside, Brooklyn, NY
Espace Vendome, Chenal Group, Paris, France. Catalogue.
Peri-Renneth Gallery, Two Person Exhibition, Westhampton Beach, NY
1983 First Woman's Bank, "Diversity", NYC
Peri-Renneth Gallery, Three Person Show, Westhampton Beach, NY
Bacchanal Gallery, "Images of Self", Philadelphia, PA
1982 Federal Courthouse, "Contemporary Expression", sponsored by the Organization of Independent Artists, Brooklyn, NY
Cork Gallery, "Drawing on Dance", sponsored by the Organization of Independent Artists, NYC
22 Wooster Gallery, "Strictly Abstract"; Invitational Exhibition, NYC
Association of Arab University Graduates, Arab Artists, NYC
1979 Holman Art Gallery, "National Drawing 79", juried by Berneice Rose, Curator of Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ
 
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
  New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, NYC
Chemical Bank, NYC

American Collection, Centrum Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland

Prudential Insurance

Pfizer Pharamceutical, NY City

Bank Audi, Beirut, Lebanon

Kenkelaba House, New York City
 
PUBLICATIONS
  Khal, Helen; The Women Artists in Lebanon; Prepared for the Institute of Women's Studies in the Arab World

"A Gathering of the Tribes" Volume 4, No. 1, 1995 Black & White Photo, page 21

"IBM Nachrichten 45" , HEFT 323, 1995, color photos of ceramic/mixed media work, page 54-55, 57-58, 61
 
REVIEWS
 

"In/Visible" Bidoun; Art and Culture from the Middle East, Kate McClellan, Fall 2005
“Sumayyah Samaha Explores Issues of War and Occupation”, Maymanah Farhat, ArteEast, June 5, 2005
"Le Fruit Défendus", L'Orient Le Jour, Sylviane Zehil, October 2, 2002, Beirut, Lebanon
"Sumayyah Samaha: The Form of Passion", catalog essay by Garrit Henry, for 1997 Exhibition, NYC
"Fecondité d'Invention pour un Trio Seducteur", L'Oreint Le Jour, May Makarem, August 2, 1991, Beirut, Lebanon
"Sumayyahs Samaha", Sayyidati, (Elle Magazine, Arabic Edition), Thérèse Basbous, Spring 1992, Paris, France
"Samaha, Rameh, Demeulnaere", Al Nahar, August 9, 1991, Beirut, Lebanon
ArtSpeak, November, 1982, NYC
AARG (Association of Artist Run Galleries), December, 1982, NYC
ArtSpeak, February, 1981, NYC

 
EDUCATION
  B.A. American University of Beirut
  M.A. University of Pittsburgh, 1965
 
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION AND EXPERIENCE
  Fourth Annual NAAP National Conference Panel Discussion:
“With Each Stroke: The Role of Art in Activism and Social Change”
The Network of Arab American Professionals (NAAP)
November 17, 2007, New York

Co-founded and was an active member of 22 Wooster Gallery, 1978-1988

Panelist: Painting, New York Foundation for the Arts, 1998
 

Other online links to this artist:
askart.com
the saatchi gallery online
artists file online

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