Samir Salameh
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Born | Visual artist | 16 August 1944
Samir Salameh (
Early life
Salameh was born in the city of
Career
Salameh began painting early, and received encouragement from the art teacher, a Syrian artist named Adham Ismail. He entered the faculty of fine arts of the Damascus University, and finished his studies in 1972 and then moved to Beirut, where he joined Palestine Liberation Organization. He participated in several collective exhibitions in Beirut, as well as numerous international exhibitions on Palestine. He contributed to the structuring of the Union of Arab Artists, being Ismail Shammout the first General Secretary.[3]
In 1975, Samir moved to Paris, France to continue his studies at
After Samir finished his education and settled in France, he received a job in the Department of Arabic Literature at UNESCO Headquarters.
Samir participated in a series of foreign art exhibitions in Japan, Sweden, Germany, Morocco, Egypt, Jordan and more, and several exhibitions in French cities. He has established an international exhibition in Beirut under the supervision of Mona Saudi, then moved to Tokyo before returning to Beirut and exhibiting paintings destroyed by warplanes bombed during the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in June 1982.
In 1996 he returned to Safed for the first time, but could not find his childhood home. Received in
Death
Samir Salama died on 16 August 2018 in Le Grand Lucé.[6]
References
- ^ "Painting Palestine: Samir Salameh's art embodies the Palestinian cause - PNN".
- ^ لفنان سمير سلامة - السيرة الذاتية Archived 21 August 2018 at the Wayback Machine (in Arabic)
- ^ أربعة معارض بفلسطين: استعادة رحلة سمير سلامة منذ الستينيات (in Arabic)
- ^ وفاة الفنان التشكيلي الفلسطيني سمير سلامة (in Arabic)
- ^ الموت يغيب الفنان التشكيلي الكبير سمير سلامة (in Arabic)
- ^ وفاة الفنان التشكيلي الفلسطيني سمير سلامة - وكالة خبر الفلسطينية للصحافة. وكالة خبر الفلسطينية للصحافة (in Arabic). 16 August 2018. Retrieved 16 August 2018.