Samia Halaby
Bio
A Palestinian refugee, was born in Jerusalem in 1936. She is a painter, writer, and activist. Active painter, she continues to explore abstraction and its relationship to reality. Her paintings are exhibited internationally and collected both privately and by museums such as the Guggenheim and the Institut Du Monde Arabe. Halaby has authored two books: “Liberation Art of Palestine” and “Drawing the Kafr Qasem Massacre.” She is the subject of two monographs and numerous reviews.
Statement
Samia Halaby is considered to be a trailblazer in contemporary abstract art internationally. Halaby draws inspiration from nature and historical movements, such as early Islamic architecture and the Soviet avant-garde. Halaby believes that new approaches to painting can transform our ways of seeing and thinking, not only within aesthetics, but also as a way to discover new perspectives for advances in teaching, technology, and society at large.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
