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Maliheh Afnan Biography
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1949 |
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Left Haifa for Beirut
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BA American University of Beirut
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1957 - 1962 |
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Corcoran School of Art, Washington DC
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1962 |
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MFA George Washington University, Washington DC
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1963 - 1967 |
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Worked & exhibited in Kuwait
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1967 - 1973 |
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Worked & exhibited in Beirut
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1973 - 1997 |
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Worked & exhibited in Paris
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1997 - 2008 |
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Living & working in London
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The artist describes her work as being “rooted in memory, both my own and a more distant, perhaps collective one. I unconsciously but continually refer to places, scripts, faces from the past both real and imagined.” Her work is not pre-planned, but instead is a more spontaneous process, where she begins with a line which takes on a life force of its own “making me a mere instrument of its journey.” Often, the source of these lines stem from scripts - scripts of all kinds, even invented ones. The scripts and text which often use the Arabic alphabet are always devoid of literal meaning. It is the line itself which speaks. At times, landscapes emerge, or faces. “In a way I find I write my painting.” “If all of one's life is registered in the recesses of the unconscious, then one’s work might simply be an unravelling, filtered and transformed through time, and the need to give it form. The process eludes me, and retains its mystery.”
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2008
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Routes, Waterhouse & Dodd, London
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2008
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Word into Art, DIFC Building, Dubai
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2007
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The Dance of Quill and Ink, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
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2006
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Word into Art, The British Museum, London
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2000
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England & Co, London (solo)
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1998
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Galerie Du Château, Noirmoutier en l’Ile
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1997
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Salon de Réalités Nouvelles, Espace Eiffel Branly, Paris
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1996
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EuropeArt, International Art Fair, Geneva
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1996
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Galerie Mouvances, Paris (solo)
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1994 - 1996
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Salon de Réalités Nouvelles, Espace Eiffel Branly, Paris
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1995
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Salon du Dessin et de la Peinture àl’éau, Espace Eiffel Branly, Paris
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1995
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Recent Acqusitions, The British Museum, London
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1995
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Salon Comparisons, Espace Eiffel Branly, Paris
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1994
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Salon d’Automme, Thorigny-Sur-Marne
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1994
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Théâtre de Beyrouth, Beirut (solo)
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1994
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Galerie 10 Bonaparte, Paris (solo)
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1994
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Salon d’Automme, Thorigny-Sur-Marne
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1993
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Leighton House Museum, London (solo)
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1990 - 1993
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Salon d’Automne, Grand Palais, Paris
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1984 - 1993
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Salon de Réalités Nouvelles, Grand Palais, Paris
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1992
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Galerie du Chêne – Donald Vallotton, Lausanne, Switzerland
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1991
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Collecting 20thCentury Art, The British Museum, London
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1989
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Contemporary Artists and Calligraphy, Egee Art, London
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1988
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Galerie Faris, Paris
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1988
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Galerie du Chateau, Noirmoutier en l’Ile, France
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1988
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Painting & Sculpture at the End of the 20th Century European Cultural Centre of Delphi, Greece
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1987
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Mac 2000, Grand Palais, Paris
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1987
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Kufa Gallery, London
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1987
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Galerie Arcadia, Paris (solo)
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1986
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Salon Comparisons, Grand Palais, Paris
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1985
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Galerie Faris, Paris
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1985
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Galerie D’Art Contemporain, Paris
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1985
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Paysages, Galerie, Paris
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1984
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Ecritures du Temps Présent, Centre d’Action Culturelle
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1984
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Pablo Neruda, Corbeil-Essonnes, France
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1984
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Ecruiture, Galerie, Paris
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1982
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A & A Turner Galerie, Paris (solo
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1980
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Galerie Brigitte Schehadé, Paris (solo)
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1978
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Galerie Principe – Anne Merlet, Paris (solo)
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1977
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Petits Formats, Galerie Principe – Anne Merlet, Paris
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1977
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Les Dessins de L’Eté, Galerie Principe – Anne Merlet, Paris
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1977
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Centre Culturel Valéry Larbaud, Vichy, France
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1975 - 1976
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Salon d’Automne, Grand Palais, Paris
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1974
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Galerie Cyrus, Paris, presented by Michel Tapié (solo)
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1973
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Young Artists Exhibition sponsored by the United Nations, New York
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1971
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Centre D’Art de Beyrouth Gallery, Beirut
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1971
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Galerie Claire Brambach, Basel, Switzerland, presented by Mark Tobey Jafet Library, American University of Beirut (solo)
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1965
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The Alumni Association, American University of Beirut (solo)
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1963 - 1964
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66th and 67th National Exhibitions of the Washington
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1963 - 1964
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Watercolour Association, Smithsonian Institution
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1963 - 1964
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Washington DC. Received the Marta Mercey Award
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1962 - 1963
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15th & 16th Area Exhibitions, Corcoran Gallery of Art
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