Helen Zughaib

Helen Zughaib (/zəˈɡeɪb/ zə-GAYB;[1] born 1959) is a painter and multimedia artist living in working in Washington, D.C. She was the daughter of a State Department civil servant. Her family left Lebanon in 1975 due to the outbreak Lebanese Civil War, and moved to Europe as a teenager, attending high school in Paris. She studied at Northeast London Polytechnic School of Art.[2] She moved to the United States to study visual and performing arts at Syracuse University graduating in 1981 with her BFA.[2] She first learned about gouache paints at SU and continues to use gouache as her primary medium, but also creates mixed media installations.[3] Her themes are centered around hopefulness, healing, and spirituality, using visual arts to shape and foster positive ideas about the Middle East.[2] She has served as cultural envoy to Palestine, Switzerland, and Saudi Arabia.[4] She has also been selected for the 2021-2023 inaugural social practice residency by the John Kennedy Center in Washington D.C.[4]

Helen Zughaib
Born1959
Beirut, Lebanon
NationalityAmerican Lebanese
EducationSyracuse University
Parent(s)Elia Kamal Zughaib
Websitehttps://www.hzughaib.com


“As an Arab American, I hope through my work, to encourage dialogue and bring understanding and acceptance between the people of the Arab world and the West, especially since 9/11, our wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the more recent revolutions and crises in the Arab world, resulting from the ‘Arab Spring’ that began in late 2010, leading to the current war in Syria and the massive displacement of people seeking refuge in Europe, the Middle East, and America. My work is ultimately about creating empathy and creating a shared space for introspection and dialogue. I ask the viewer to see through someone else’s eyes, to walk in another’s shoes. To accept the ‘other.’ To reject divisiveness. To promote acceptance and understanding and to reject violence and subjugation of anyone anywhere. To give voice to the voiceless, to heal, to reflect in our shared humanity.” - Helen Zughaib

Early Life

Exodus Story

Helen Zughaib left Lebanon in late December 1975. Helen and her siblings had not been going to school and a curfew was in place due to the ongoing civil war. They had been sleeping on the floor. One day, the concierge of the building went to her father and told him that he and his family needed to leave immediately. Two militias were preparing to have a shootout and the family flat on the second floor would have been in the crossfire. So the family left, leaving their cats behind, and ran through the streets after curfew while snipers were on the roofs of the surrounding buildings. While running, one of her sisters lost a shoe. The image of the shoe has haunted Helen and been incorporated in many of her works. Everyone in her family was evacuated to Greece but her father stayed behind in Lebanon. She had asked her father when they would be allowed to come back, and he said in a week. Instead of one week, Helen was unable to return to Lebanon for 35 years.[4]

A piece from Weeping Women by Helen Zughaib

Artworks

Zughaib illustrated Kaleel Sakakeeny’s book “Laila’s Wedding” published in 1994.[5]

Zughaib’s work has been purchased by the United States government to be given as gifts to foreign leaders. In 2009 Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave Moroccan King Mohamed V Zughaib’s interpretation of the Washington Monument during Clinton’s trip to Morocco.[6] In 2010 President Barack Obama presented Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki with Zughaib’s painting “Midnight Prayers” during the Prime Minister’s visit to the White House.[6]

Her work has been included in Art in Embassies' State Department exhibitions abroad, including Brunei, Nicaragua, Mauritius Iraq, Belgium, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia and Sweden.[4]

Zughaib’s work comments on cultural identity, family life, the plight of refugees and displacement in the Middle East, the Arab Spring, and the Lebanese Civil War.[7] Her notable series of 23 paintings titled "Stories My Father Told Me," for example, is based on the folks tales and family history that her Lebanese father has told her over the years, and includes numerous stories of migration and displacement.[8] The complete series was shown at the Arab American National Museum in 2015.[9]

Her 2019 “Syrian Migration Series” shown at the Jerusalem Fund Gallery in Washington, DC was inspired by Jacob Lawrence’s 1940 “Migration Series.” [10]

Zughaib's style combines a variety of art historical references and influences including post-Impressionism and pop art with Islamic art motifs of geometric patterns and floral arabesque.[11] Her work has been influenced by the styles of Pablo Picasso and Jacob Lawrence. Her work can be found in many notable collections, such as The White House, World Bank, Library of Congress, and the Arab American National Museum.[2] She has had over 20 solo exhibitions in the U.S. and Middle East.[12]

Circle Home: Inked "beit" on etching paper by Helen Zughaib

Circle Home (2010)

Circle Home/Beit is an ink on etching paper created by Zughaib in 2010. Shown at a show in Beirut 35 years after she had left, the piece highlights the theme of journey and represents the endless questioning of Zughaib of a possible return to home. She emphasizes that home is not only the physical structures in a community but also everything that defines the meaning of home. The cyclical nature of the work combines the past sentiments of sadness with future aspirations of return. While she calls this piece circle home, all of her Arab friends refer to the piece as beit. Beit means home in arabic. Helen recalled her father explaining bait to her: “bait is not just the physical structure, it's the village. It's your extended family. It's your tribe. It's all these other elements that are meaning. It's much larger than the actual structure.” She wrote the word repeatedly as a type of catharsis. Zughaib cites the significance of this piece to her personally, referencing how incessantly writing the same word over again left a pain in her hand that felt “strongly appropriate."[4]

Map of Home

Map of home is gouache on board. Helen created this piece for her show in Lebanon. The blue represents the Mediterranean. The brown represents the mountains. She is wearing the hand of Fatima that her aunt gave her. Helen placed Lebanon over her head and heart. She put a star for her birthplace of Beirut. She is wearing a wedding band for her second cousin and she included her cat. She gave her cat a tail out of artistic license because her cat does not actually have a tail.[4]

Pieces of You

In 2010, during her visit home, Helen visited Khaled and Aleppo. The homes there were known for their detailed tiles but were destroyed in the Arab Spring. She painted blank tiles based on the designs that you would have found on the old homes. Her idea was to show the fracturing and destruction that war brings upon civilization, citing her own journey from Lebanon through countries such as Jordan, Syria, and France. One aspect of the piece that Zughaib emphasizes is the fact that this is not limited to just the Lebanon crisis. For Zughaib, the art is also representative of situations in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Ukraine, etc. due to its similarities.[4]

A gouache on board piece from Helen Zughaib's collection Arab Spring

Arab Spring

Arab Spring is a collection of gouache on board pieces. Helen was inspired by Pablo Picasso for these pieces. This collection can be found in the library of congress. She uses flowers and bright colors to display optimism and hope for equality.[4]

Tinderbox (2013)

Tinderbox is made of gouache and newspaper.  The newspaper included in this piece are clippings from articles written on the war in Syria with a blue background.  There are many smaller clippings, but the most prominent pieces read “Tell me how this one ends,”The spark that ignited a REVOLUTION,” and the piece’s namesake “The Syrian Tinderbox.”[4]

Generations Lost

Generations Lost is gouache on board. The subject of the painting includes only women because women are the ones left behind. The men are either dead, lost or fighting the war. These individuals are holding faded photographs of their loved ones. Helen titled this piece “Generations Lost” because the effect of war is continuous even if the bombing has ended.[4]

White Helmets

The white plastic construction helmets display is an oad to the volunteers who wore white helmets in the Syrian civil war. After a building was bombed, volunteers would don their white helmets and search the rubble for survivors. Many times, the opposing force could make out the white helmets and bomb the site a second time. Helen used her artwork to commemorate the heroism of average civilians during the civil war. The White Helmets began in Syria and were spearheaded by locals including barbers, grocers, shopkeepers, etc. After bombings, whether explosive or chemical, these White Helmets would go into the wreckage to try and find survivors and rescue anyone. The piece is also Zughaib’s way of honoring these everyday people for their heroics and emphasizing the impact that they have and how it has reverberated to other conflicts such as Ukraine.[4]

Enamel paint and newspaper on ceramic plates as part of an art installation by Helen Zughaib titled Eat the News

Eat the News

Eat the News is an installation in which Helen used enamel paint and newspaper on ceramic plates to force viewers to consume what happened in the Syrian civil war. Living in Washington D.C, Helen began to collect all references to the war found in the Washington Post. She recalled how, even though she would listen to and read the news, she was able to go about her daily business. At some point, all the death becomes “like just numbers and you can’t even absorb it. Even me, when my heart is there, I can’t even absorb it.” She wanted to personalize the war so she began to write down the name of every man, woman, and child that had been killed in this war thus far. After filling five notebooks with names, she went to the streets to try and inform the public. She went to the post office, metro, salon, different stores, and the pharmacy and would ask strangers to take a picture of her writing down victim names. “I would take my phone and I would say to the person-they thought I was completely crazy-would you please take a picture while I'm writing this down. They're like why? And I would say well, while we're standing here buying peanut butter, this is what's going on.” She realized her effort was not enough so she created a physical installation where individuals would be forced to consume what they are learning about in the news. The painted dots are meant to represent movement, journeys, hope, and dreams.[4]

Syrian Migration Series

Helen’s Syrian Migration Series is an ongoing series working to document the Syrian war through art. She was inspired by Jacob Lawerence’s, the African American painter, 60 panel migration series about the movement of African Americans from the rural south to the industrialized north. This series is meant to also demonstrate the shared suffering of different peoples across time and place. The migration series documents the beginning of the Syrian war from revolution, to how it moved to Syria from Tunisia and Egypt.[4]

Do Not Forget Us

Do Not Forget Us was made of neon, shirts, ink, and wood hangers. This is an installation where Helen took three of her father’s dress shirts and had “La tansana” repeatedly stitched on the collars and cuffs. “La tansana” means “do not forget us.”[4] Mansour Omari was a political prisoner who was kept in an underground prison with 82 other inmates.[13] The inmates used rust, blood, and chicken bones to write the names of every person on scraps of cloth. The list was then sewn into the shirt collar and cuffs of Omari’s shirt. He was able to share the list of the disappeared upon his escape. Helen’s piece was inspired by Omari’s story and is a commemoration to all the individuals who have disappeared.[14]

A series of 24 children’s shoes painted with acrylic gouache by Helen Zughaib titled The Places They'll Go

The Places They’ll Go

The Places They’ll Go is a series of 24 children’s shoes painted with acrylic gouache. Helen named this series after Dr. Suess. Shoes hold a double meaning for Helen. They are a symbol that represents the ability to run away from danger and also towards one’s dreams. Zughaib inserts this symbol into her artwork to help signal the overall theme of journey and discovery. For Zughaib, she recounts her experience as a young girl in Beirut Lebanon, using her artwork to tell the story of her uprooted life. Once the Civil War had begun, she remembers living under curfew, not being able to attend school or go outside, sleeping on the floor, and eventually being evacuated. Remembering her father’s words telling her to leave, she channels this theme into her artwork to highlight the theme of journey.[4]

Chiclets (2014)

Chiclets is made on two panels with acrylic gouache on canvas.  In this piece Helen Zughaib wanted to call attention to the fact that in Syria and Lebanon some families have so little money that the children had to sell individual pieces of gum in the streets rather than attending school.  When Helen was young, children would come up to the cars to sell packets of chiclets.  Helen and her siblings would get excited when their father would call over one of the children selling these chiclets to their car, but her father would give the child money and tell them to keep the chiclets. Her father would tell them that it was better for the children selling the chiclets to keep the money and the chiclets so that they could make a little more money later.[4]

Eat the News Again

Similar to the first installation of this exhibit, Eat the News Again is an installation in which Helen used enamel paint and newspaper on ceramic plates to force viewers to consume what happened in the Syrian civil war.  This installation included an image of a boy being carried by his father in a suitcase.  Helen included dots throughout the piece referring to movement, journey, hope, and dreams.[4]

Books

Stories My Father Told Me: Memories of a Childhood in Syria and Lebanon

Stories My Father Told Me is written by Helen Zughaib with Elia Kamal Zughaib and illustrated by Helen Zughaib.  This book contains 24 full color plates of original art by Helen accompanied by her father, Elia Zughaib’s, stories from his childhood in Syria and Lebanon in the 1930s.  Elia would write down his stories, and, though they were not very long, they were filled with vivid detail of rich culture, lifestyles, and traditions that were then translated into Helen’s artwork.  This gives audiences a look into life full of Lebanese and Syrian Christian culture and traditions.

List of Exhibitions

Selected Solo Exhibitions[15]
  • 2021 Inova Schar Joan Hisaoka Healing Arts Gallery, Fairfax, VA
  • 2021 Gallery Al-Quds, Washington, DC
  • 2021 Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2020 Cosmos Club, Washington, DC
  • 2020 Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD
  • 2019 Baum Gallery, Conway, AR
  • 2019 Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO
  • 2019 Woodrow Wilson House Museum, Washington, DC
  • 2019 Gallery Al-Quds, Washington, DC
  • 2018 World Bank, Washington, DC
  • 2017 Allegheny College, Pittsburgh, PA
  • 2017 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
  • 2016 York College of Pennsylvania, York, PA
  • 2015 Mamia Bretesche Gallery, Paris, France
  • 2015 University of Maryland University Collee, Adelphi, MD
  • 2014 Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
  • 2014 Gallery Al-Quds, Palestine Center, Washington, DC
  • 2014 Sharjah Expo Centre, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
  • 2014 University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
  • 2013 Syra Arts Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2013 Protea Gallery, San Diego, CA
  • 2012 Covington and Burling, Washington, DC
  • 2012 Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC
  • 2012 Stimson Center, Washington, DC
  • 2012 Palestine Center, Gallery Al-Quds, Washington, DC
  • 2010 Agial Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 2008 International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2007 Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC
  • 2007 ART Station Gallery, Stone Mountain, GA
  • 2006 Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2006 Georgetown University, Washington, DC
  • 2005 Dadian Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2005 Richard Hugo House Gallery, Seattle, WA
  • 2005 International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2004 Maryland Hall, Annapolis, MD
  • 2004 Palestine Center, Gallery Al-Quds, Washington, DC
  • 2004 Children's National Hospital, Washington, DC
  • 2003 Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2002 EuropArt Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
  • 2002 International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2001 Covington and Burling, Washington, DC
  • 2001 Atrium Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2001 Greenberg House, Washington, DC
  • 2001 Embassy of Lebanon, Ambassador's Residence, Washington, DC
  • 2000 National Republican Convention, Philadelphia, PA
  • 2000 Palestine Center, Gallery Al-Quds, Washington, DC
  • 1999 International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1998 Grand Hyatt, Washington, DC
  • 1997 Russell Rotunda, United States Capitol, Washington, DC
  • 1997 Artifice Gallery, Syracuse, NY
  • 1995 Arts Club of Washington, DC
  • 1993 Artifice Gallery, Syracuse, NY
  • 1990 Alif Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1988 National Institute of Health, Washington, DC
  • 1987 Omni Shoreham, Washington, DC
  • 1987 Levine School of Music, Washington, DC
  • 1987 Arts Club of Washington, DC

National and International Juried Exhibitions[15]
  • 2022 VisArts, Rockville, MD
  • 2022 Minnesota Center for Book Arts, Minn., MN
  • 2022 Emergeast Dubai, online
  • 2022 Women of FAME, Artsy.net
  • 2021 Michelene Klagsburn Studio, Washington, DC
  • 2021 Middle East Institute, Washington, DC
  • 2021 Addison Ripley Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2021 Joan Hisaoka Center for Healing, Washington, DC
  • 2021 Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ
  • 2020 Art Bank Collection-Women’s Suffrage, Online Exhibit, Washington, DC
  • 2020/21 Middle East Institute Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2020 San Francisco Center for Book Arts, San Francisco, CA
  • 2020 Gallery Al-Quds, Washington, DC
  • 2020 Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2019 Tsichritis Arts Foundation, Athens, Greece
  • 2019 Baltimore College, Baltimore, MD
  • 2019 Stand4 Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2019 Library of Congress, Washington, DC
  • 2019 Center for Book Arts, New York, NY
  • 2019 Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
  • 2019 Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI
  • 2018 Sordoni Gallery, Wilkes Barre University, PA
  • 2018 Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
  • 2018 Brown University, Providence, RI
  • 2018 Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, TN
  • 2018 Gallery 102, Washington, DC
  • 2018 Martie McMane Gallery, Boulder, CO
  • 2018 Dadian Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2018 Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2018 KYO Gallery, Alexandria, VA
  • 2018 St. Mark’s Episcopal Cathedral, Seattle, WA
  • 2018 The World Bank, Washington, DC
  • 2018 Smith Center for Healing and the Arts, Washington, DC
  • 2018 Kerlin Gallery, York, PA
  • 2018 Cosmos Club, Washington, DC
  • 2018 The Jackson Hole Center for the Arts, Jackson, WY
  • 2018 Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA
  • 2018 Studio Gallery, Washington, DC2018 DCAC, Washington, DC
  • 2017 Gallery 102, Washington, DC
  • 2017 Irving Center for the Arts, Dallas, TX
  • 2017 Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2017 National Gallery of Art, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • 2017 Irving Arts Center, Dallas, TX
  • 2017 Katzen Museum, Washington, DC
  • 2017 Black and White Building, London, UK
  • 2017 Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2017 Washington Printmakers Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2017 St. Martin in the Fields, London, UK
  • 2017 New York University, Washington, DC
  • 2017 Eye St. Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2017 National Gallery of Art, Amman, Jordan 2017 Smith Center for the Arts, Washington, DC
  • 2017 Eisemann Center of Performing and Visual Arts, Richardson, TX
  • 2016 US Ambassador’s Residence, The Quincy House, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
  • 2016 United States Institute of Peace, Washington, DC
  • 2016 Bohrer Park Gallery, Gaithersburg, MD
  • 2016 Gallery Al-Quds, Washington, DC
  • 2016 Busboys and Poets, with the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
  • 2016 Online exhibition, #Panel 61, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
  • 2016 Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Santa Fe, NM
  • 2016 Galerie Camille, Detroit, MI
  • 2016 Museum at Tamastslikit Cultural Institute, Pendleton, OR
  • 2016 St. John’s Cathedral, Spokane, WA
  • 2016 Smith Center for the Arts, Washington, DC
  • 2016 University of District of Columbia, Washington, DC
  • 2016 Dadian Gallery, Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC
  • 2016 Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
  • 2016 Trinity Church Wall Street, New York, NY
  • 2016 Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2015 Eye Street Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2015 Cathedrale Saint-Etienne, Metz, France
  • 2015 Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
  • 2015 Smith Center for the Arts, Washington, DC
  • 2015 LumineArte Gallery, Dallas, TX
  • 2015 York College Galleries, York, PA
  • 2015 Cafritz Foundation Arts Center, Montgomery College, Montgomery, MD
  • 2015 Dadian Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2015 P21 Gallery, London, UK
  • 2015 The Bridge, St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London, UK
  • 2015 Flashpoint Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2015 The Bridge, Westtown Hub Gallery, Cairo, Egypt
  • 2015 CARAVAN, Saint Germaine de Pres Cathedral, Paris, France
  • 2015 Artisphere, Arlington, VA
  • 2014 Salem College, Winston Salem, NC
  • 2014 LuminArte Gallery, Dallas, TX
  • 2014 CARAVAN, Cathedral Saint John the Divine, New York, NY
  • 2014 CARAVAN, Washington National Cathedral, Washington, DC
  • 2014 Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
  • 2014 Dadian Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2014 Reginald F. Lewis Museum, Baltimore, MD
  • 2014 Levantine Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2013 University of Maryland College, College Park, MD
  • 2013 Kansas City Artists Coalition, Kansas City, MO
  • 2013 Shiva Gallery, CUNY, New York, NY
  • 2013 Dadian Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2013 Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2013 Protea Gallery, San Diego, CA
  • 2013 Palestine Center, Gallery Al-Quds, Washington, DC
  • 2013 Parallax Art Fair, Prince George Ballroom, New York, NY
  • 2013 Maryland Federation of the Arts, Annapolis, MD
  • 2013 International Museum of Women, San Francisco, CA
  • 2013 University Art Galleries, Texas A&M University, TX
  • 2013 Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
  • 2013 International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2013 Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY
  • 2012 Gardner Gallery, Oklahoma State University, OK
  • 2012 Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA
  • 2012 Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2012 Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
  • 2012 World Bank, Washington, DC
  • 2012 St. Mary's Art Museum, St. Mary's College, Moraga, CA
  • 2011 Penelac-Bowman Megahan Art Galleries, Allegheny College, PA
  • 2011 2 Ten Haus Studio Gallery, Ivanhoe, NC
  • 2011 Art Museum of Kentucky University, KY
  • 2011 University of Maryland University College, College Park, MD
  • 2011 Cyrus Running Gallery, Concordia College, MN
  • 2011 Takoma Park Civic Center, Takoma, MD
  • 2011 International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2011 Palestine Center, Gallery Al-Quds, Washington, DC
  • 2011 University of Arkansas Art Galleries, Little Rock, AR
  • 2011 de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA
  • 2010 Center for the Arts of Bonita Springs, Bonita Springs, FL
  • 2010 Richard Peeler Art Center, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
  • 2010 Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson University, NJ
  • 2010 Kean University, NJ
  • 2010 University of Maryland University College, MD
  • 2010 University Art Gallery, California State University, CA
  • 2009 International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2009 Drury University Pool Art Center, MO
  • 2009 Palestine Center, Gallery Al-Quds, Washington, DC
  • 2009 Joan Hisaoka Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2009 Indiana East Art Gallery, IN
  • 2009 Alexey von Schlippe Gallery, University of Connecticut, CT
  • 2009 Joan Hisaoka Gallery, DC
  • 2008 Union Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
  • 2008 University of Arkansas Fine Arts Center, Fayetteville, AR
  • 2008 Galerie Myrtis, Baltimore, MD
  • 2008 Dairy Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO
  • 2008 Al-Hakawati, Palestinian National Theater, East Jerusalem
  • 2008 Khalil Sakakini Cultural Centre, Ramallah, West Bank
  • 2007 Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
  • 2006 Capital One Gallery, McLean, VA
  • 2006 Palestine Center, Gallery Al-Quds, Washington, DC
  • 2005 Washington Gallery of Photography, Bethesda, MD
  • 2005 World Bank, Washington, DC
  • 2005 National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
  • 2005 Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, MI
  • 2005 Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art, Biloxi, MS
  • 2005 Sixth Floor Museum, Dallas, TX
  • 2004 Danubiana Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia
  • 2004 National Gallery of Albania, Tirana, Albania
  • 2004 Waterfront Hall, Belfast, Ireland
  • 2003 Allied Museum, Berlin, Germany
  • 2003 Armory Arts Center, Palm Beach, FL
  • 2003 Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL
  • 2003 Embassy of United States, Ambassador's Residence, Sultanate of Brunei, Art in Embassies Program
  • 2003 Gallery West, Alexandria, VA
  • 2002 Suntrust Plaza Gallery, Atlanta, GA
  • 2002 National Arts Club, New York, NY
  • 2002 Library of Congress, Washington, DC
  • 2002 Topkapi Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
  • 2002 Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2002 Meridian International Center, Washington, DC
  • 2002 Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2001 Gallery West, Alexandria, VA
  • 2000 Target Gallery, Alexandria, VA
  • 1998 Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1997 Washington Design Center, Washington, DC
  • 1996 The World Bank, Washington, DC
  • 1994 Dadian Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1994 The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
  • 1991 The Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC
  • 1991 Helio Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1989 32nd National Exhibition of American Art, Chautauqua, NY

Juried Group Exhibitions[15]
  • 2016 Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2014 International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2012 International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2012 Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2010 International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2009 Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2009 Palestine Center, Gallery Al-Quds, Washington, DC
  • 2008 International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2007 Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2007 Gallery 42, University of District of Columbia, Washington, DC
  • 2007 International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2007 Maryland Hall, Annapolis, MD
  • 2006 National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
  • 2005 Visions Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2004 Warehouse Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2004 Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2004 Edison Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2004 Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Spring, MD
  • 2003 Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2003 Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC
  • 2003 MOCA Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2003 Zenith Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2003 International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2002 International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2002 Strathmore Hall Arts Center, Rockville, MD
  • 2001 Verizon Gallery, Fairfax, VA
  • 2001 Neiman Marcus, Top Ten, Fairfax, VA
  • 2001 MOCA Gallery, Washington, DC2001 A Salon Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2001 International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2001 Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2001 A Salon Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2000 Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 2000 A Salon Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1999 A Salon Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1999 Gallery 505, Washington, DC
  • 1999 Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1999 Gallery West, Alexandria, VA
  • 1998 International Visions Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1998 Fraser Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1998 Touchstone Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1997 Omni Shoreham, Washington, DC
  • 1997 Seventh Street International, Washington, DC
  • 1997 Projectspace Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1997 Citibank, Washington, DC
  • 1997 Washington Design Center, Washington, DC
  • 1996 The World Bank, Washington, DC
  • 1996 MOCA Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1996 The World Bank, Washington, DC
  • 1995 Urban Arts Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1994 Dadian Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1994 S.U.N.Y. Gallery, Syracuse, NY
  • 1994 The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY
  • 1994 Perry House Gallery, Alexandria, VA
  • 1993 The United Nations Plaza, New York, NY
  • 1993 Montserrat Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1993 Skaneateles Gallery, Skaneateles, NY
  • 1993 Upstate Medical Center, Syracuse, NY
  • 1993 Arts 901, Washington, DC
  • 1992 Alif Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1993 Art Barn Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1992 Atheneum Gallery, Alexandria, VA
  • 1991 Foundry Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1991 The Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC
  • 1991 Office of the Mayor, Washington, DC
  • 1991 Helio Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1991 Dupont Plaza Hotel, Washington, DC
  • 1991 Alif Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1991 Art Barn Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1990 Wetherholt Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1990 Arts 901, Washington, DC
  • 1990 Alif Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1990 Stables Art Center, Washington, DC
  • 1990 Embassy Row Hotel, Washington, DC
  • 1989 Sumner School and Museum, Washington, DC
  • 1989 Strathmore Hall Arts Center, Rockville, MD
  • 1989 Broadway Gallery, Fairfax, VA
  • 1989 Chautauqua Art Center, Chautauqua, NY
  • 1989 Watergate Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1989 Innervisions Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1989 Mayor's Mini Art Gallery, Washington, DC
  • 1989 Funding Center, Alexandria, VA
  • 1987 The New Arts Center, Washington, DC
  • 1987 Gallery 10, Washington, DC
  • 1986 St. David's Church, Syracuse, NY
  • 1981 Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY
  • 1980 Northeast Polytechnic School of Art, London, England

Public Collections and Exhibitions[15]
  • Qatar Foundation International, Washington, DC
  • Anthony Shadid Family
  • University of Berne, Switzerland
  • Collection of the White House, Washington, DC
  • Embassy of United States of America, Baghdad, Iraq
  • Arab American National Museum, Detroit, MI
  • United States Consulate General, Vancouver, Canada
  • Library of Congress, Washington, DC
  • World Bank, Washington, DC
  • Office of US-Arab Leadership Program, Washington, DC
  • Fahmy Hudome International, LLC, Washington, DC
  • Law Offices of O’Connell & Glock, Washington, DC
  • Law Offices of Katten Muchin & Zavis, Washington, DC
  • Law Offices of Covington & Burling, Washington, DC
  • Law Offices of Verner, Lipfert Bernhard McPherson & Hand, Washington, DC
  • Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Washington, DC
  • St. Paul’s Parish, Washington, DC
  • Palestine Center, Washington, DC
  • National Immigration Forum, Washington, DC
  • Greenberg House, Syracuse University, Washington, DC
  • Filtertech, Syracuse, NY
  • Arab Family Support Center, New York, NY
  • McCain Institute, Washington, DC
  • Center for Global Development, Washington, DC
  • Arab Gulf States Institute of Washington, Washington, DC
  • American Community School in Beirut, Lebanon
  • National Transportation Safety Board, Washington, DC
  • DC Art Bank Collection, Washington, DC
  • Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC
  • University Galleries, University of San Diego, CA
  • Capital One Corporation, McLean, VA
  • DC Art Bank-Washingtonia Collection York College, York, PA

Collections
  • Minneapolis Institute of Art
  • ARAMCO Headquarters, Houston, TX
  • Art Bank, Washington, DC
  • Houston Memorial Hospital
  • University of Bern, Switzerland
  • Collection of the White House, Washington, DC
  • Embassy of United States of America, Baghdad, Iraq
  • Arab American National Museum, Dearborn, Michigan
  • United States Consulate General, Vancouver, Canada
  • Library of Congress, Washington, DC
  • Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
  • World Bank, Washington, DC
  • Qatar Foundation International, Washington, DC
  • Anthony Shadid Family
  • Office of US-Arab Leadership Program, Washington, DC
  • Fahmy Hudome International, LLC, Washington, DC
  • Law Offices of O’Connell & Glock, Washington, DC
  • Law Offices of Katten Muchin & Zavis, Washington, DC
  • Law Offices of Covington & Burling, Washington, DC
  • Law Offices of Verner, Lipfert Bernhard McPherson & Hand, Washington, DC
  • Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Washington, DC
  • St. Paul’s Parish, Washington, DC
  • Palestine Center, Washington, DC
  • National Immigration Forum, Washington, DC
  • Greenberg House, Syracuse University, Washington, DC
  • Filtertech, Syracuse, NY
  • Arab Family Support Center, New York, NY
  • McCain Institute, Washington, DC
  • Center for Global Development, Washington, DC
  • Arab Gulf States Institute of Washington, Washington, DC
  • American Community School in Beirut, Lebanon
  • National Transportation Safety Board, Washington, DC
  • DC Art Bank Collection, Washington, DC
  • Capital One Corporation, McLean, VA
  • DC Art Bank-Washingtonia Collection, Washington, DC
  • York College, York, PA
  • Wesley Theological Seminary, Washington, DC
  • University Galleries, University of San Diego, CA

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