Asma Fayoumi (born 1943, Amman, Jordan) is a Syrian Abstract Expressionist painter.[1] She attended Damascus University in Syria.[2] Her work is in the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation.[3]
In 2011[4] and 2015[5] she had a solo shows at the Ayyam Gallery in Beirut.[6] In 2020 through 2022 her work was included in the exhibition Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s which traveled from the Grey Art Gallery at New York University to the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University.[7] In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.[8]
Fayoumi's son is the composer Zaid Jabri.[9]
References
edit- ^ "Asma Fayoumi". AskArt. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
- ^ "Asma Fayoumi". Atassi Foundation. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
- ^ "Ritha' Madina (Requiem for a City)". Barjeel Art Foundation. 18 April 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
- ^ "The Person Within by Asma Fayoumi". Beirut City Guide. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
- ^ "'Untitled' Exhibition". Beirut City Guide. Archived from the original on 6 May 2023. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
- ^ "Solo show of pioneering Syrian painter Asma Fayoumi opens at Ayyam Gallery Beirut". ArtDaily. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
- ^ "Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s – 1980s". Block Museum - Northwestern Universityedu. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
- ^ "Action, Gesture, Paint". Whitechapel Gallery. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
- ^ "Syrian themes at London's Royal Opera House". Financial Times. 17 July 2015. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
External links
edit- Exhibition catalogue for the Untitled exhibition