Curriculum Vitae:

Born in 1969 – Beit Eddine, Lebanon

1995 – Masters in Visual Art at the Lebanese Academy of Fine arts ALBA.
1997 – 1998 Specialization in sculpture and in Virtual Sculpture at the “Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Cergy” ENSAC, France.
1995 till 2000 – Teacher of sculpture at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts ALBA.

AWARDS

2014 – “Contemporary Sculpture Award” presented by Macam museum, at the 5th Visual Art Forum, organized by LAAPS, at UNESCO Beirut.
2001 – Awarded by the municipality of Hull, Quebec, Canada.
2001 – Awarded by the Lebanese Ministry of Culture.
2001 – Silver Award of the 2nd Biennale of Latakia, Syria.
1998 – Special Prize of the jury at the “Salon d’Automne” of Sursock museum.
1995 – 1st Prize HARVEST 95 of sculpture.

DESIGNER OF SEVERAL TROPHIES

– Gibran Khalil Gibran (Gibran National Committee) trophy.
– The Golden Murex awards (annual award).
– The Cannes Junior – Beirut Festival 1997 trophy.

INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS

2014 – The Al Bustan International Festival of Music and the Arts, Lebanon.
2008 – Zayed University, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
2000 – German Cultural Center Kulturzentrum.
1998 – Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Art Cergy ENSAC, interactive installation with CD-Rom, France.
1997 – Bekhazi Art Gallery at the International Byblos Festival.

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

– Participated in more than 50 collective exhibitions between the year 1993 and 2014.

STONE SCULPTURE SYMPOSIUMS

2003 – CHANGCHUN International City Sculpture Symposium, China.
2003 – ESSAOUIRA International Sculpture Symposium, Morocco.
2001 – Represented Lebanon at the “Jeux Culturels de la Francophonie” in OTTAWA, Canada, the sculpture is now part of the collection of The Contemporary Museum of Fine Arts “Maison du Citoyen” Ottawa, Canada.
2000 & 2003 – Rachana International Sculpture Forum, Lebanon.
1999 – Corniche Project, Beirut.
1999 & 2000 – Aley International Sculpture Symposium, Lebanon.
1998 – Latakia International Sculpture Symposium, Syria.

MONUMENTAL SCULPTURES IN PUBLIC PLACES

Lebanon: Downtown Beirut, Mten roundabout, Aley Rachana, Kfour roundabout, Deir el Ahmar roundabout, Zouk roundabout main highway.
International: Changchun – China, Essaouira – Morocco, Latakia – Syria, Ottawa – Canada.

Artist's statement:

What is the chemistry that connects between people different characters?
What is in common between the 4 elements of the earth?
Between water and fire? Wind and earth?

Nothing is in common, yet they are the essence of our planet. From the diversity of nature to the complexity of the human behavior, to the recycling laws of animals, to the majestic system of galaxies, to the power of microscopic atoms… there is a huge contrast.

Which dimension can gather them all?

Each day, we wake up with different feelings, different thoughts, each moment we grow up, we constantly change physically and mentally. Being mature is an unreachable moment yet this is maturity.

As an artist, I wonder how could I spend my life working on the same theme and the same line or concept? It is like looking from the same angle all my life without exploring other perspectives.

Being an artist is about searching freely, without any rules, while experimenting with materials, textures, ideas, volumes, and voids.

In observing what is surrounding my body and mind I am capturing my own dimension: The Fourth Dimension.

Sounds and echo don’t disappear, they travel in space, in a void, in the Fourth Dimension, same as light and shadow but with a different perspective. If we change our perspective then the same artwork changes.

Between realism, figurative, impression, odd, water motion, space harmony and whatever I might work on in the future, there is only one thing in common: Me.

One vision with different shapes, the same sculptor with different approaches.

An artist’s mind is an open art lab where feelings are merging with texture, ideas with volumes, shapes with light and void with shadows.