Jamil Molaeb

Jamil Molaeb was born in the village of Baysour, Mount Lebanon. Before pursuing formal artistic training, he participated in several editions of Sursock Museum’s Salon d’Automne (1966, 1967, 1969). He graduated from the Institute of Fine Arts at the Lebanese University in 1972, where he had studied with the prominent Lebanese artists Shafic Abboud, Paul Guiragossian, Rafic Charaf, Nadia Saikali and Aref El Rayess. He then received a scholarship from the Algerian government to study at L’École Nationale des Beaux-Arts in Algiers from 1972 to 1973. His solo exhibitions in the Beirut of the long 1960s included Dar el-Fan (1974) and Contact Art Gallery (1974). He taught on and off at the Lebanese University’s Institute of Fine Arts from 1977 to 2012. He earned an MFA in the fine arts with a focus on engraving from the Pratt Institute in 1987 and then obtained a PhD in arts education from the Ohio State University in 1989. He then taught art classes at the Lebanese American University in Beirut from 1993 to 1999. His work features in the collections of the Jamil Molaeb Museum, Mount Lebanon; the Sursock Museum, Beirut; The Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation, Beirut; the Saradar Collection, Beirut; The Bahrain Museum, Bahrain; The World Bank, Washington DC.