Simone Fattal
Simone Fattal (born 1942) is a Lebanese-American artist.
She was born in Damascus and was educated in Beirut and Paris, studying philosophy at the Sorbonne. She returned to Beirut in 1969, where she began a career as a painter.[1] She began working in clay at The Art Institute of California, later working in Grasse with ceramic artist Hans Spinner.[2]
She lives with poet and artist Etel Adnan. The couple left Lebanon for California in 1980. There Fattal established a publishing house Post-Apollo Press. She returned to the visual arts in 1988, producing sculpture, watercolors, paintings and collage.[1] She later moved to Paris.[3]
In 2017, she was nominated for a AWARE prize for women artists.[2]
In 2019, a retrospective of her work "Works and Days" was presented at the Museum of Modern Art's MoMA PS1.[1] Her work has also been exhibited at the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakesh, at the Rochechouart Museum of Contemporary Art and at the Sharjah Art Foundation.[3]
References
- ^ a b c "Simone Fattal, Works and Days". The White Review. May 2019.
- ^ a b "Simone Fattal". Archives of Women Artists & Exhibitions.
- ^ a b "Simone Fattal, Works and Days". Museum of Modern Art.
Further reading
- Katrib, Ruba (2019). Simone Fattal: Works and Days. Long Island City: MoMA PS1. ISBN 978-0-9968930-7-7.
- Obrist, Hans Ulrich (2017). Simone Fattal: Watercolours. London: HENI. ISBN 978-1-912122-00-4.
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