Nadia Saikali (born 1936, Beirut, Lebanon)[1] is a Lebanese Abstract Expressionist painter. She attended the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA), the Académie de la Grande Chaumière, and the L'École des Arts Decoratifs.[2]

Her work is in the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation.[3] In 2020 work was included in the Sharjah Art Museum's exhibition The Memory Sews Together Events That Hadn’t Previously Met.[4] In 2022 her work was included in the exhibition Manifesto of Fragility: Beirut and The Golden Sixties at the Gropius Bau in Berlin.[5] The show traveled to the Lyon Biennial in Lyons, France.[6] It then travel to the Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art.[7][8]

In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.[9]

References

  1. "About the Artists". Mathaf. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  2. "Nadia Saikali". Ans Azura. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  3. Chaves, Alexandra (8 July 2021). "Barjeel Art Foundation exhibits more than 30 new acquisitions in Sharjah". The National. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  4. "Nadia Saikali". Barjeel Art Foundation. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  5. "Gropius Bau opens 'Beirut and the Golden Sixties: A Manifesto of Fragility'". ArtDaily. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  6. "Nadia Saikali". Mutual Art. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  7. "Beirut and the Golden Sixties: A Manifesto of Fragility at Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art". Selections Magazine. 20 March 2023. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
  8. "Beirut and the Golden Sixties: A Manifesto of Fragility". Mathaf. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
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