Samia Halaby
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Samia Halaby (b.1936 in Jerusalem) is a Palestinian-American artist, activist, and scholar living and working in New York.
Halaby is a painter who was educated in the 1950s in the American Midwest, at a time when abstract expressionism was popular, but female abstract painters were often overlooked. In the 1960s she started working with intense colors and shapes to construct minimal patterns, that repeat and spread over the surface of the canvas. Early on in her practice, her paintings left the rectangular stretched fabric, to become shaped canvases, three-dimensional mobiles, or computer-generated visuals. She constantly foregrounded works and techniques and, in retrospect, was at the avant-garde of artistic production throughout her career.
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| 2024 | Samia Halaby: Centers of Energy, IU Eskenazi Museum of Art, Sidney, Australia (forthcoming) |
| 2023 | Lasting Impressions: Samia Halaby, Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, UAE (forthcoming) |
| 2017 | Documentary Drawings of the Kafr Qasem Massacre, Birzeit University Museum, Ramallah, Palestine |
| 2015 | Five Decades of Painting and Innovation, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut, Lebanon |
| 2006 | A Useful Magnificent Language: The Work of Samia A. Halaby, Tompkins County Public Library, Ithaca, New York, USA |
| 2000 | Sakakini Art Center, Ramallah, West Bank, Palestine |
| 1995 | Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordan |
| 1983 | Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA |
| 1972 | Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
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| 2022 | Natasha, Singapore Biennale 2022, Singapore Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, Block Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA |
| 2021 | Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, USA Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Boston, USA |
| 2020 | Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s, NYU Grey Art Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2019 | Intimate Terrains: Representations of a Disappearing Landscape, Palestinian Museum, Birzeit, Palestine Grand Opening, Palestine Museum, Woodbridge, Connecticut, USA Between two rounds of fire, the exile of the sea, Katzen Art Center, American University Museum, Washington DC, USA Jerusalem Lives (Tahya Al Quds), The Palestinian Museum, Birzeit, Palestine Enfolding and Unfolding: Geometric Abstraction in Motion, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA |
| 2016 | This Sea is Mine, 3rd Qalandiya International Biennial, Palestine |
| 2015 | Rituals of Signs and Transitions (1975 – 1995), Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordan Self: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence, National Academy Museum, New York, USA |
| 2014 | Seeing Through Light: Selections from the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Collection, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE |
| 2009 | Palestine: La création dans tous ses états (Palestine: Creativity in all its Generations), Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris, France |
| 2007-08 | Keep Hope Alive, The Olive Project, traveling exhibition: Ethnographic and Art Museum, Birzeit University, Palestine; Al Hoash Gallery, Jerusalem, Palestine; Japan Bank Building, Hiroshima, Japan; Maruki Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2003 | Made in Palestine, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas, USA Breaking the Veils, traveling exhibition: UNESCO, Paris, France; Rhodes, Greece; Athens, Greece |
| 2001 | Couleur Palestine (Rhythms from Palestine), Le musée du Château Dufresne, Montreal, Canada |
| 1998 | Palestinian Art, The Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 1994 | Forces of Change, National Museum of Women, Washington D.C., USA |
| 1991 | Digitized and Manipulated, Sangre De Cristo Arts Center, Pueblo, Colorado, USA Art And Algorithm, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, USA |
| 1990-91 | Hilo International Exhibition Works on Paper, University of Hawaii, Hilo, USA |
| 1989 | Tercero Bienal de la Habana '89, Havana, Cuba |
| 1985 | TAMARIND: 25 Years 1960-1925, traveling exhibition: University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA |
| 1982 | Palestinske Kunstnere (Palestinian Artists), Kunstnernes Hus, Chiristiansands Kunstforening, Christiansands, Norway |
| 1981 | Palestinske Kunstnere (Palestinian Artists), Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway |
| 1979 | Contemporary Arab Artists II, Iraqi Cultural Center Gallery, London, United Kingdom |
| 1977 | Contemporary American Printmaking, Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, Indiana, USA Contemporary American Prints, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA |
| 1975 | Tamarind Prints, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA Recent Acquisitions, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA |
| 1974 | Nine Connecticut Artists, The Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA |
| 1973 | American Drawing, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA |
| 1969-70 | Six Faculty Artists, Indiana University Museum, Bloomington, Indiana, USA |
| 1966-71 | Art in The Embassies Program, Department of State & The National Gallery, Washington D.C., USA |
| 1965 | Art of Two Cities - Kansas City and Minneapolis (Purchase Award), traveling exhibition: Time-Life Gallery, New York, USA |
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| 2019 | Performance, Kinetic Painting Group, Bernie Wohl Auditorium, New York, USA |
| 1998 | Performance, Kinetic Painting Group, The Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, New York, USA Performance, Kinetic Painting Group, Lincoln Center, New York, USA |
| 1997 | Performance, Kinetic Painting Group, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, USA Performance, Kinetic Painting Group, Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordan |
| 1994 | Performance, Kinetic Painting Group, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA |
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| Alternative Museum, New York; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago; Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah; Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut; Darat Al Funun - The Khalid Shoman Foundation, Amman; Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit; Center for the Arts, Vero Beach; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne; The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu; Indiana University Museum, Bloomington; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis; Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris; Kalamazoo Institute of Art, Kalamazoo; Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha; Mead Art Museum, Amherst; Memphis State University Art Collection, Tennessee; Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing; The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; The National Museum of Jordan, Amman; The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington D.C.; Nelson Rockhill Gallery of Art, Kansas City; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs; Sioux City Art Center, Sioux City; Speed Art Museum, Louisville; Tamarind Lithography Institute, Albuquerque; The Jane Voorheese Immerli Art Museum, New Brunswick; The University Gallery - Memphis State University, Memphis; University of Michigan, Kalamazoo; Yale University Gallery, New Haven | |
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| 2014 | Samia Halaby: Five Decades of Painting and Innovation, Edited by Maymanah Farhat, Booth-Clibborn Editions, London, United Kingdom |
| 2006 | Samia Halaby, Fine Arts Publishing, Beirut, Lebanon (Authors: Inea Bushnaq and Samia Halaby) |
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| 1963 | MFA, Painting, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA |
| 1960 | MA, Painting, Michigan State University, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA |
| 1959 | BS, Design, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA |