Nadia Saikali

Nadia Saikali was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1936. She graduated from the Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts in 1956 and then studied at L’Académie de la Grande Chaumière and L’École des Arts Decoratifs in Paris. She trained in the studios of Henri Goetz, Michel Durand and Donnot Seydoux. She lived in Glasgow for brief period before returning to Beirut in the mid-1950s. She participated in the annual Salon du Printemps at the UNESCO Palace and the Salon d’Automne at Sursock Museum in the long 1960s. She held solo exhibitions in Beirut at the John F. Kennedy Center (1967), the L’Orient newspaper headquarters (1970), the Goethe Institute (1972) and Contact Art Gallery (1972). In 1967, she participated in the São Paulo Biennale. She permanently moved to France in 1979 amid civil war. Her work features in the collections of the Sursock Museum, Beirut; Society of Lebanese Architects and Engineers, Beirut; The Nadia Tueni Foundation, Beit Mery, Lebanon; The Chase Manhattan Bank, New York; The City of Paris, the National Fund of Contemporary Art, Paris and The Royal Institute Galleries, London.