Maliheh afnan biography of albert
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Maliheh Afnan
Maliheh Afnan was born in to Persian parents in Haifa, Palestine. Her family moved to Beirut, where she went to high school and later graduated with a BA from the American University of Beirut in In she moved to Washington DC, where she graduated with an MA in Fine Arts at the Corcoran School of Art (). She spent 23 years in Paris, where she had numerous exhibitions, before settling in London in , where she lived until Afnan has had several solo shows, including "Speak Memory" (curated by Lutz Becker) and Rose Issa Projects (). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions around the world and her work is in several public collections, including The Metropolitan Museum, New York; The British Museum, London; and the Institut du Monde Arabe, Akkram Ojjeh Foundation and BAII Bank Collection, all in Paris. She has also featured in several publications, most recently Familiar Faces (, Rose Issa Projects) and Maliheh Afnan: Traces, Faces, Places (, Saqi Books & B
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Arabicity: Contemporary Arab Art
Rose Issa is a curator, writer and producer who has championed visual art and film from the mittpunkt East for more than thirty years. Since the s, she has showcased upcoming and established artists and produced exhibitions worldwide, including at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Leighton House Museum, London; Tate Britain, London; and European Parliament, Brussels, among others. Issa lends work to and advises on collections for institutions and organisations around the world, includingthe Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Art, Boston; The Smithsonian, Washington; The British Museum; Victoria & Albert Museum; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Smithsonian Institution (Sackler/Freer galleri and National Museum of African Arts); and World Bank, Washington DC. Her recent publications include Signs of Our Times: from Calligraphy to Calligraffiti, Iranian Contemporary Art, Arab Photography Now, Iranian Photography Now, Parastou Fo
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If you’re using Google from within the Middle East (on 5th July ), you would have noticed that there is a unique illustration on the search engine’s homepage. Dedicated to iconic Palestinian artist, Maliheh Afnan, Google Doodle have transformed the Google logo on the site’s homepage into an illustrated animation of the infamous Arab artist who passed away in
Afnan is being paid tribute to a year after an exhibition celebrating her work, “The Symmetry of Fragility,” ended at The Institute of Contemporary Arts in Milan, Italy.
Maliheh Afnan was a nomad, born to Persian parents in Haifa, Palestine in , she moved to the capital of Lebanon for her high school education, and went on to graduate with a BA from the American University of Beirut.
It wasn’t until she moved to Washington DC to obtain her MA in Fine Arts at the Corcoran School of Art, that she chased her dreams of becoming an artist. Still travelling and setting up home wherever she went, Afnan lived in Kuwait from ,