Download CV
Selected work available at artsy.com
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 - Leila Heller Gallery, “Long Voyage,” New York, NY
2019 - Carter Burden Gallery, “Lines, Forms, Substance,” New York, NY
2017 - Carter Burden Gallery, "On the Wall," New York, NY
2017 - Artscoops.com, "Featured Artist,” Online Exhibition
2010 - Art Circle Gallery, "Aesthetics: Art & Politics," Beirut, Lebanon
2008 - Skoto Gallery, "Darkness Ushers Dawn," New York, NY
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,” New York, NY
2000 - Denise Bibro Fine Art, “Recent Paintings,” New York, NY
1999 - Denise Bibro Fine Art, "Beyond the Brush," New York, NY
1998 - Farleigh Dickinson University, “Paintings,” Hackensack, NJ
1997 - Denise Bibro Fine Art, “Recent Paintings & Pastels,” New York, NY
1995 - Denise Bibro Fine Art, “Works in Process,” New York, NY
1994 - Denise Bibro Fine Art, "Landscapes: Where My Soul Roams," New York, NY
1993 - Kenkeleba 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
2023 - “Osama Abusitta Collection,” Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman, Jordan
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
2024 - Art Dubai, Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2023 - “Over the Sofa,” Carter Burden Gallery, New York, NY
2023 - Darat al Funun, The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman, Jordan
2023 - “Friends and Family Show,” Carter Burden Gallery, New York, NY
2022 - CITYarts SoHo Artist History Walk, CITYArts, New York, NY
2020 - “Salon Zurcher: Eleven Spirited Women,” Zurcher Fine Arts, New York, NY
2019 - Auction, Artscoops.com, Beirut, Lebanon
2019 - “Abstract Vision” - El Barrio’s Artspace PS109, New York, NY
2017 - "Summer Show" - Skoto Gallery, New York, NY
2016 - "Carter Burden Group Show" - Carter Burden Gallery, New York, NY
2015 - "Figuring Abstraction" - Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2013 - "The Emo Show" - The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
2012 - Berlin Biennale - ArtWiki: Digital Venue of the 7th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art
2012 - "25 Years Anniversary Show Part 2", Curated by Kazuko Miyamoto - Gallery onetwentyeight, New York, NY
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
2009 - Skoto Gallery, Group Exhibition, New York, NY
2009 - "Small Works; 30 Seconds" - Washington Square Gallery, New York, NY
2007 - Blink Gallery, Andes, NY, Three 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
2006 - Blink Gallery, Andes, NY, Three Person Show
2005 - "Real Compared to What; Artistic Expression as a wrench in the system -- not a cog in the wheel." , Gallery onetwentyeight, New York, NY
2005 - "Pieces 6," Gallery onetwentyeight, 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
2003 - WAR ART, Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
2003 - 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,” Three Person Show, New York, NY
2000 - Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Local papers, Brooklyn, NY
2000 - A.I.R. Gallery, Generations II: Survey of Women Artists at the Millennium, New York, NY
2000 - Gallery onetwentyeight, Invitational Exhibition, New York, NY
1999 - International Exhibitions, Art In Embassies, American Embassy, Beirut, Lebanon
1999 - Albright Knox Museum Gallery, “New York Abstractions,” Buffalo, NY
1999 - Denise Bibro Fine Art, Group Invitational, New York, NY
1995 - Gallery onetwentyeight, Group Exhibition, New York, NY
1992 - Denise Bibro Fine Art, “Abstraction I,” New York, NY
1992 - SoHo Art Space, “Juxtapositions, Four Artists,” Curated by Virginia Cuppaidge, New York, NY
1992 - 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
1990 - International Monetary Fund, Two Person Exhibition, Washington, D.C.
1989 - The Studio American Collection, Traveling Exhibition, Poland
1989 - 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
1986 - Contemporary Arab Art in the US, Sponsored by the US-Arab Chamber of Commerce, New York, NY
1986 - Galerie Pablo Picasso, Chenal Group, Denain, France
1985 - 22 Wooster Gallery, Two Person Exhibition, New York, NY
1985 - Northside Arts Industries, Artists at Northside, Brooklyn, NY
1985 - Espace Vendome, Chenal Group, Paris, France
1985 - Peri-Renneth Gallery, Two Person Exhibition, Westhampton Beach, NY
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
American Collection, Centrum Sztuki, Warsaw, Poland
Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, Michigan
Bank Audi, Beirut, Lebanon
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Chemical Bank, New York, NY
Darat al Funun, The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman Jordan
Kenkelaba House, New York, NY
Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman Jordan
New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, New York, NY
Prudential Insurance
Pfizer Pharmaceutical, New York, NY
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
REVIEWS
"Beyond Good & Evil" - NOW Lebanon, Hannah Jewel, June 11, 2010
al Akhbar newspaper, Z. Ghanem, June 18, 2010
"Fait la guerre à la guerre" - Femme Magazine, Frida Debanné, June 2010
"L'art engagé (et enragé)" - L'Orient le Jour - Maya Ghandoor Hert, June 5, 2010
"Three Arab Painters in New York" - Palestine Chronicle, Remi Kanazi 2006
"In/Visible" - Nafas Art Magazine, 2005
"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, New York, NY
"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, New York, NY
AARG (Association of Artist Run Galleries), December, 1982, New York, NY
ArtSpeak, February, 1981, New York, NY
AWARDS, GRANTS, RESIDENCIES
The Skopelos Foundation for the Arts Resiency, 2021
Emily Harvey Foundation Residency Venice, Italy, 2010 & 2018
Pollock-Krasner Individual Grant, 2016
Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant, 2015
Finalist: Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation's Individual Support program, 2008
EDUCATION
M.A. University of Pittsburgh, 1965
B.A. American University of Beirut, 1960
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATION AND EXPERIENCE
"Turning Writing Into Art," Panelist, Artists Talk on Art, March 20, 2009
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