Samia Halabi

Halaby was born in Al-Quds (Jerusalem) in 1936. In 1948, Halaby and her family were displaced from Palestine to Beirut and then to the USA.

 

She graduated from Indiana University with a Master of Fine Arts in painting in 1963, and began teaching. Halaby spent 10 years as professor of art the Yale School of Art.

 

Building on abstraction and its relationship to nature and reality, Halaby focused on a variety of subject. At first her work was sharp and hard edged. Later work reflects an interest in soft space and are abstract impressions of motion.

 

Palestine as subject matter enters into her abstract artwork as well as her politically explicit art. In parallel with oil and acrylic paintings, Halaby began, in 1985, to test her ideas in electronic media.

 

Halaby's work has been exhibited her work internationally and is in numerous museums.