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SoHo New York |
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| SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2010 | Art Circle Gallery, "Aesthetics: Art & Politics", Beirut, Lebanon |
| 2008 | Skoto Gallery, "Darkness Ushers Dawn", New York, NY [Skoto Gallery Link] |
| 2007 | Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba, "Love, Life and Pain", New York, NY |
| 2004 | Blink Gallery, "Personal Landscapes", Andes, NY |
| 2002 | Denise Bibro Fine Art, "Strange Fruit", recent paintings, Chelsea, New York, NY |
| 2000 | Denise Bibro Fine Art, Recent Paintings, Chelsea, New York, NY |
| 1999 | Denise Bibro Fine Art, "Beyond the Brush", Chelsea, New York, NY |
| 1998 | Farleigh Dickinson University, Paintings, Hackensack, NJ |
| 1997 | Denise Bibro Fine Art, Recent Paintings & Pastels, Chelsea, New York, NY |
| 1995 | Denise Bibro Fine Art, WORKS IN PROCESSs, SoHo, New York, NY |
| 1994 | Denise Bibro Fine Art, "Landscapes: Where My Soul Roams", SoHo, New York, NY |
| 1993 | Kenkelaba Gallery, Four Artists-solo shows, New York, NY |
| 1982 | 22 Wooster Gallery, "New York, NY 1981" , 22 Wooster Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1981 | 22 Wooster Gallery, New York, NY |
| 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") |
| 1994 | Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, "American Abstraction: A new Decade", Loretto, PA |
| SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2012 | Skoto Gallery, Exhibition of Drawings, New York, NY |
| 2011 | Curate NYC - "Towering" Hoong Yee Lee Krakauer, Executive Director, Queens Council on the Arts |
| 2011 | Skoto Gallery, Summer Show, New York, NY |
| 2010 | "New York Chronicles"
Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar VCUQ Gallery Doha, Qatar |
| 2008/09 | "ART in Embassies Exhibition" [US Embassy], Kuwait City, Kuwait. Catalogue |
| 2009 | Skoto Gallery, group exhibition, New York, NY |
| 2009 | "Small Works; 30 seconds" Washington Square Gallery, New York, NY |
| 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, New York, 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 onetwentyeight, 128 Rivington Street, New York, NY |
| "Pieces 6", Gallery onetwentyeight, 128 Rivington Street, New York, NY | |
| 2004 | "Y W" [Why War, Why Dubya?] Viridian Gallery, Chelsea, New York, NY |
| 2003 | "New York Collection 2002", Albert Knox Museum Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
| WAR ART, Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY | |
| DEFIANCE, Udi Aloni Project Room 529 West 20th New York, NY | |
| 2002 | Albert Knox Museum Gallery, "New York Collection 2002", Buffalo, NY |
| 2001 | Gallery onetwentyeight, Ceramic and Oils, 3 person show, 128 Rivington Street, New York, NY |
| 2000 | Williamsburgh Art and Historical Center, Local papers, Brooklyn, NY |
| A.I.R. Gallery, Generations II: survey of women artists at the Millennium, New York, NY | |
| Gallery onetwentyeight, invitational exhibition, 128 Rivington Street, New York, NY | |
| 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, New York, NY | |
| 1995 | Gallery onetwentyeight, Group Exhibition, 128 Rivington Street, New York, NY |
| 1992 | Denise Bibro Fine Art, Abstraction I, SoHo, New York, NY |
| SoHo Art Space, Juxtapositions, Four Artists, Curated by Virginia Cuppaidge, New York, NY | |
| Marine Midland Bank, Spare Parts, Collages from the 19 Painters and Printmakers, Curated by Peggy Hadden, New York, NY | |
| 1991 | Platform Gallery, "Three Painters", Beirut, Lebanon |
| 1990 | Triplex Gallery, Shapeshifters, Borough of Manhattan Community College, New York, NY |
| International Monetary Fund, Two Person Exhibition, Washington, D.C. | |
| 1989 | The Studio American Collection, Traveling Exhibition, Poland |
| Cityscapes, Window Installation, 480 Broome Street, New York, NY, 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, New York, NY. Catalogue |
| Galerie Pablo Picasso, Chenal Group, Denain, France. Catalogue. | |
| 1985 | 22 Wooster Gallery, Two Person Exhibition, New York, NY |
| Northside Arts Industries, Artists at Northside, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Espace Vendome, Chenal Group, Paris, France. Catalogue. | |
| Peri-Renneth Gallery, Two Person Exhibition, Westhampton Beach, NY | |
| PUBLIC COLLECTIONS | |
New
York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, New York, NY |
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| PUBLICATIONS | |
| At the Edge of the City: Reinhabiting Public Space Toward the Recovery of Beirut's Horsh Al-Sanawbar Fadi Shayya (Editor), George Arbid (Foreword), Danny Khoury (Designer) - First edition in 2010, Published by DISCURSIVE FORMATIONS Beirut’s park and public space, an effort towards understanding contextual meanings and practices of public life and public space in the Mediterranean context of Beirut."Pine trees don't make pine nuts" Oweis, Fayeq; Encyclopedia of Arab American Artists ; Greenwood Press, Westport,CT 2008 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 |
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| REVIEWS | |
"Beyond Good & Evil" - NOW Lebanon, Hannah Jewel, June 11, 2010 |
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| AWARDS & GRANTS | |
| Emily Harvey Foundation Residency Venice, Italy, 2010 | |
| Finalist: Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation's Individual Support program, 2008 | |
| EDUCATION | |
| B.A. American University of Beirut | |
| M.A. University of Pittsburgh, 1965 | |
| PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION AND EXPERIENCE | |
"Turning Writing Into Art" |
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