Biography:
1944
- Born in Beirut. Lebanon.
1962 - 1963 Certificate in Drawing and Sculpture, Lebanese
Academy of fine Arts, Beirut - Lebanon.
1963 - 1967 Studies of Sculpture. Ecole Nationale Sup‚rieure
Des Beaux-Arts. E.N.S.B.A. Paris. Atelier Professor Hubert
Yencesse.
1964 - 1967 Training in monumental sculpture. Atelier Gerard
Ramon, City of Villepreux - France.
1965 - Member of the Graphic and Plastic Art French Federation
- Paris.
1967 - Create his own studio for sculpture and art foundry
by lost wax system, Debayeh - Lebanon.
1967 - 1975 Professor of sculpture, drawing and artistic
anatomy at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts, Beirut -
Lebanon.
1968 - 1970 Expert in the Service of Embellishment of the
City of Beirut (Green Plan), Lebanon.
1972. Professor of sculpture at the Lebanese Institute
of Fine Arts, Section II, Lebanese University.
1990 - 1991 Worked in Susse Art Foundry, Paris - France.
Exhibitions :
1965 Exhibit at the Annual Salon of the French Federation
of Graphic and Plastic arts, Modern Art Museum - Paris.
1967 Exhibit at the "Salon Mur et Espace for Monumental
Arts", Sainte Genevieve-des-Bois - France.
Personal exhibition at the International Cultural Center,
University City of Paris - France.
Personal exhibition at Antoinette Mondon Gallery, Rue de
Seine - Paris.
1967. Exhibit at all the "Salon d'Automne",
Sursock Museum, Beirut - Lebanon.
1976 Personal exhibition at the "Centro Lebanese",
Mexico city - Mexico.
1977 Retrospective of ten years of sculpture, Cultural
Palace, Rabieh - Lebanon.
1980 Personal exhibition at Sindin Gallery New-York - U.S.A.
1985 Permanent personal gallery at Amwaj center, Jounieh
- Lebanon.
1987 Personal exhibition at Amwaj Center, Jounieh - Lebanon.
1990 Personal exhibition at Grande Loge of France - Paris.
Personal exhibition at Salon Artis, Atlantia Cultural Center,
La Baule - France.
Exhibit et the "Salon d'Automne", Grand Palais
- Paris.
1991 Personal exhibition - Salon Artis.
Orangerie, Chƒteau de Versailles -Versailles, France.
1992 Permanent exhibition of sculptures, Melki gallery
- Paris.
1993 Exhibit at the "Salon d'Automne", Grand
Palais - Paris.
1996 Personal exhibition, Furstenberg Gallery - Paris.
1997 Exhibit at the "Salon du Printemps", Beirut
- Lebanon.
1998 Personal exhibition at Gallery 23, Barbizon - France.
1998 Exhibit at the "Salon d'Automne", Sursock
Museum, Beirut - Lebanon.
Exhibit at the Gibran Khalil, Gibran Museum, Bicharry -
Lebanon.
1999 Exhibit at the Rachid Karame Fair, Tripoli - Lebanon.
2001 Baakline Symposium, Baakline - Lebanon.
2002 Personal exhibition at "Art Contemporain",
Expo Beirut - Lebanon.
Symposium of the Resistance, Ghobeiry City - Lebanon. Prizes :
1964 First Prize of Sculpture for Foreign Artists from ® Ecole
Nationale Sup‚rieur des Beaux-Arts ¯ Paris -
France.
1967 Prize of Sculpture. Sursock museum, Beirut - Lebanon.
1970 Prize of Sculpture. Rotary Club, Beirut - Lebanon.
1973 Prize of Poet Said Akl, Beirut - Lebanon.
1985 " Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres ";
French Ministry of Culture, Paris - France.
1999 Prize of the City of Gobeiry - Lebanon.
Monument to " The Resistance of the Lebanese People".
Direct stainless steel, Model dim: 100 cm. Monument to
be erected 20 meters.
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