Born 1994 in Beirut, Lebanon

Resides and Works in Detroit, USA

EDUCATION

2022          MFA Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA

2019          BA Painting, Printmaking, & Art History (minor,) Albion College, Albion, MI, USA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023         I Remember Picking Olives From Trees, Munro Gallery, Albion College, Albion, MI, USA    

2021         Glimpses, KO Studio Gallery, Hamtramck, MI, USA   

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024        Banat El Hara, Arab Women in the Arts, Selva NYC, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2024         Border(less), MASS Art x SoWa Galley, Boston, MA, USA

2023         Postcards for Palestine, Claire de Rouen Books, London, UK

2023         Artists Against Apartheid, Public Art PPPA, Washington, DC, USA

2023         COMM[UNITY] ||, Playground Detroit, Detroit, MI, USA

2022         War & Peace, Royal Society of American Artists, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2022         Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA

2022         In Transit, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA

2021       Women/Non-binary Exhibition, BasBlue x Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI, USA

2021         Art Mile Detroit, Redbull Arts x Maamoul Press, Detroit, MI, USA

2021         Michigan Emerging Graduate Artists Juried Exhibition, Alluvium Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI, USA

2021         When Words Fail, Visionary Art Collective, Virtual

2021          The Stories We Carry, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA

2020         Send It, Hard Gallery, Virtual

2020         Art Buddies, Hard Gallery, Detroit, MI, USA

2019       Unwound, Munro Gallery, Albion College, Albion, Ml, USA

2018        57th Greater Michigan Art Exhibition, Midland Center For The Arts, Midland, Ml, USA

2018         90th Annual Regional Exhibition, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI, USA

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

2023       The Studios at MASS MoCA Fellowship, North Adams, MA, USA

2023        JUST Art Award Finalist, London, UK

2023        Field Residency Finalist, Chelsea, NY, USA

2023         Dear Artists With Anxiety Artist Residency, Virtual  

2022         Philip C. Curtis Artist In Residence, Albion College, Albion, MI, USA

2022        AICAD Post-Graduate Teaching Fellowship Nominee, Providence, RI, USA

2022         Dedalus Fellowship Nominee, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2022 Merit Scholarship, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA

2021        Best in Show, Michigan Emerging Graduate Artists, Alluvium Gallery, Grand Rapids, MI, USA

2019         Virginia Center for the Creative Arts Residency, Amherst, VA, USA

2019          Faculty-Student Collaboration Research Grant, Albion College, Paris, FR 

2018          Foundation for Research & Creative Activity Fellowship, Albion College, Albion, Ml, USA

EXPERIENCE

2024        Arab American Studies Association conference Panel, Arab American Museum, Dearborn, MI, USA

2023-24   Studio Manager, Sculpture department, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA

2023         Artist Talk, Alex & Marie Manoogian High School, Southfield, MI, USA

2022-23   Adjunct Professor of Art (Sabbatical Replacement,) Albion College, Albion, MI, USA

2022        Curator, Midwest Painting Show, Forum Gallery, Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA

2021-22   Painting Departmental Assistant, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA

2019        Co-Curator, Unwound, Munro Gallery, Albion College, Albion, Ml, USA

2019        Teaching Assistant, 3D design, Albion College, Albion, Ml, USA

2018-19   Printmaking Studio Assistant, Albion College, Albion, Ml, USA

2018        Arts Editor, Albion Review, Albion College, Albion, Ml, USA

2018        Artist Assistant, Firth MacMillan, Albion, Ml, USA

PUBLICATIONS

2023 Polemical Zine, 19th Issue “BLUE,” Digital

2021    New American Paintings, No. 149, Midwest Issue

PRIVATE & PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Grand Valley State University Collection, Allendale, MI

Tiff Massey (Artist), Detroit, MI

Gretchen Gonzales-Davidson & Ethan Davidson Collection, Birmingham, MI

Erika Stefanutti (Artist), Bloomfield Hills, MI

Rodrigo Acierno Vázquez “Taco” Collection, Miami, FL

Heba Nahle (Designer), Milan, IT