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SAMIR SALAMEH SAMIR SALAMEH

SAMIR SALAMEH, Palestine (1944 - 2018)

Bio

Samir Salameh was born in Safad, Occupied Palestine in 1944. Following the Nakba in 1948, he fled to Syria with his family, where he studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of...

Samir Salameh was born in Safad, Occupied Palestine in 1944. Following the Nakba in 1948, he fled to Syria with his family, where he studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Damascus, and graduated in 1972. Afterward, Salameh temporarily moved to Lebanon and worked with the PLO, creating posters and prints for its offices. In 1975 enrolled at the Ecole Superieure Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris and graduated in 1981. He settled in France, and he received a job in the Department of Arabic Literature at UNESCO Headquarters.

In 1996 he returned to Safad, trying with no success to find his old family home. He was awarded the Order of Culture, Arts, and Sciences by the Palestinian president in Ramallah, In 2005.

Salameh depicts abstract expressionist paintings using bright, luminous colors. Themes of landscapes also can be seen in his work, addressing the struggle of occupation and displacement, and his use of glowing colors symbolize a sign of hope for the Palestinian cause. Salameh passed away in France in 2018.

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CV

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2018

Retrospective, Gallery One, Ramallah, Palestine
Retrospective, Bab idDeir Art Gallery, Bethlehem, Palestine

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

Arab Presences: Modern Art And Decolonisation: Paris 1908-1988, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France

2023

Ce que la Palestine apporte au monde, Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris, France

2020

Les collections vivantes de l'IMA | Couleurs du monde, Institute du Monde Arabe, Paris, France

2018

Retrospective, Gallery One, Ramallah, Palestine
Retrospective, Zawyeh Art Gallery, Ramallah, Palestine

2017

Masters of Palestinian Art, The International Art Colony, Budapest, Hungary

2005

The Colours of Life and Liberty, UNESCO Palace, Paris, France

2002

Musée Dufresne, Montreal, Canada

2000

Artothéque: Location d’oeuvres d’art, Montreal, Canada

1998

Palestinian Art, Stockholm, Sweden

1989

Alhambra Gallery, Paris, France

1987

Opera House, Sydney, Australia

1986

Metropolitan Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Comparisons in Contemporary Art, Paris, France

1984

The House of Opera, Stockholm, Sweden

1983

Davidson Gallery, Tours, France

1981

Kunstnernes Hus Art Gallery, Oslo, Norway
Eight Artists from the Arab World, Rabat, Morocco

1980

Modern Art Museum, Tarragona, Spain
Modern Art Museum, Warsaw, Poland

1979

Oriental Arts Museum, Moscow, Russia
The International Salon of Fine Arts, Lisbon, Portugal
Salon d’Automne, Paris, France

1978

Afro-Asian Artists Society, Tokyo, Japan

1977

Neuvième Festival International des Arts, Cannes, France

1976

Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

1974

The First Arab Biennale, Baghdad, Iraq

1969

Salon d’Automne, Damascus, Syria

Collections

Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Ministry of Culture, Damascus, Syria
Amman National Museum, Amman, Jordan
Modern Art Museum, Tunisia
National Museum of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Potsdam Museum, Potsdam, Germany

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Press
First Person_ Recent Palestinian Art - The Jerusalem Fund.pdf
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FLOOR TO CEILING  Nabad - pulse of the art scene.pdf
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القدس.pdf
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الرئيس يمنح الفنان التشكيلي سمير سلامة وسام الثقافة والعلوم.pdf
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Arab 48.pdf
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Videos
Excerpts from episode 4 (Samir Salameh) of the documentary series “Salt of the Land”
Samir Salameh at the International Art Colony
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Exhibitions
Winter Collective

SAMIR SALAMEH Artwork

Untitled

SAMIR SALAMEH, Palestine, 2006
75 x 75 cm

Untitled

SAMIR SALAMEH, Palestine, 2006
75 x 75 cm

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