SUMAYYAH SAMAHA

Sumayyah Samaha is a Lebanese-American Artist. She came to the United States on a fellowship to the University of Pittsburgh, PA in 1968. Upon completion of her fellowship she moved to New York  and decided to settle in the United States in search of a bigger life.

“I started painting at the age of 33 and now at age 81, I can say I am an accomplished painter.” Samaha is primarily an abstract oil painter. Other media include water-colours, pastels, clay, monoprints and various mixed media. Samaha is committed to her craft, seeking harmony with her medium to tell her visual stories.

In addition to numerous solo exhibitions at 22 Wooster Gallery, Wilmer Jennings Gallery at Kenkeleba House, Denise Bibro Fine Art, and Skoto Gallery, Samaha also has an extensive group exhibition history at venues throughout the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Highlights include American Abstraction: A New Decade at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, PA; New York Chronicles at the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts, Qatar VCUQ Gallery, Doha, Qatar (2010); Art in Embassies, US Embassy, Kuwait City, Kuwait (2008-09); In/Visible: Contemporary Art by Arab American Artists—the opening exhibition of the Arab American National Museum and Cultural Center in Dearborn, Michigan (2005); and New York Collections 2002 at the Albright Knox Museum Gallery, Buffalo, NY (2002).

Samaha’s work can be found in public collections that include the Arab American National Museum and Cultural Center in Dearborn, Michigan; Centrum Sztuki in Warsaw, Poland; Kenkeleba House in New York, NY; Pfizer Pharmaceutical in New York, NY; and Bank Audi in Beirut, Lebanon.

Samaha is represented by CarterBurden Gallery, Skoto Gallery, as well Artscoops, an online gallery in Beirut, Lebanon.

Website: https://www.sumayyahs.com/

Instagram: @sumasamaha