Nadia Saikali

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.
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3. Chaves, Alexandra (8 July 2021). "Barjeel Art Foundation exhibits more than 30 new acquisitions in Sharjah". The National. Retrieved 23 April 2023.
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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.
9. "Action, Gesture, Paint". Whitechapel Gallery. Retrieved 23 April 2023.