Laure Ghorayeb

Laure Ghorayeb was born in Deir el-Qamar, Lebanon, in 1931. Since 1962 Ghorayeb’s artistic practice has been complemented by a career in cultural journalism. She has worked at several magazines and daily newspapers including Shi’r, L’Orient-Le Jour and Annahar. She has held numerous exhibitions in Beirut, including at Gallery One (1966, 1967, 1971, 1972), Sursock Museum’s Salon D’Automne (1966) and Contact Art Gallery (1974). She has also participated in the Paris, Baghdad and Alexandria Biennials. More recently, she has participated in the exhibitions Convergence – New Art from Lebanon at the Katzen Art Center in Washington DC in 2010, and Rebirth at the Beirut Exhibition Center in 2011. Her work has been collected by the British Museum, Sursock Museum, Saradar Collection, Dalloul, Barjeel. A monograph of her work was published by Kaph Books in 2019. Laure Ghorayeb currently lives and works in Beirut.