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Nabil Nahas

Born in 1949, Nabil Nah as began to paint in the 1970s. He studied at the University of Louisiana and at prestigious Yale University. Very much attached to his native Lebanon, he takes inspiration from starfish, among other elements. He covers them with pigments and duplicates them on his canvases.



Several American museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Boston Fine Arts Museum, have acquired his works and he has exhibited at many galleries throughout the world.


In 2002, he represented Lebanon at the Sao Paulo Biennial. His first retrospective was held in Beirut in 2010 to mark the opening of the Beirut Exhibition Center.




Several galleries handle his work: the Sperone Westwater Gallery (New York), the Agial Gallery (Beirut), the Lawrie Shabibi Gallery (Dubai), the Ben Brown Gallery (London and Hong Kong) and the Tanit Gallery (Munich). He lives and works in New York.



Courtesy of Bernardaud.

Born 1949
Hometown Beirut, Lebanon
Lives and Works New York, NY
Education
MFA, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1973
BFA, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 1971
Permanent Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Vorhees Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Education City, Doha, Qatar

The Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI

Representing Galleries

Sperone Westwater, New Yotk, NY