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Buthayna ALI
Visual Artist
Born 1974, Damascus, Syria
Lives and works in Canada and Syria

Education
2003 Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts - Post Diplôma - ENSB-A - Paris (FR)
2001

Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-arts - Diplôma - DNSAP - Paris (FR)
Sorbonne Paris IV History of Islamic Art - DEA - Paris (FR)

1996 Faculty of Fine Arts "Painting department" - Post Graduate Diploma in Fine ART -Damascus (SY)
1995 Faculty of Fine Arts "Painting department" - Graduate in Fine ART - Damascus (SY)

 

Teaching Experience
2002 to 2010 Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting department - Professor - Damascus (SY)
1995 - 1996

Faculty of Fine Arts, Painting department - Assistant Prof - Damascus (SY)

 

Selection Exhibitions

Collective exhibition:
2009 The Other shadow of the city Jerusalem (PS)
Taswir - Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin (DE)
2008       11th Cairo Biennale Cairo (EG)
3rd Glow festival forum of light and architecture - with Bayan AlSheikh Eindhoven (NL)
Traversées - ArtParis Paris (FR)
2007 Dar Kalemat Gallery Aleppo (SY)
Darat AlFunun Amman (JO)
10th Istanbul Biennale Istanbul (TR)
Sexy Souks, Point Ephémère organized by the Maison des Cultures du Monde Paris (FR)
2006 Europe art exhibition Geneva (CH)
2004 Brunei Gallery London (UK)
2000 Syrian cultural Centre; with Pierre AlMaari Paris (FR)

Solo exhibitions

2009 Green art Gallery - Bastakiya Art Fair – I’m Ashamed installation Dubai (UAE)
2006 AlRywak Gallery - We installation Damascus (SY)
2003 Atassi Gallery - Promises installation Damascus (SY)
2002 National Museum - Tent installation Damascus (SY)
Caisse d’Epargne Gallery - Bedouin painting Angers (FR)
2001 Mozart Park- Tent installation

Paris

(FR)

 

Selection Lectures, Workshops

2010 Arab International University - Faculty of Architecture - Lecture -         Damascus  (SY)
2007 Faculty of Fine Art - Workshop leader, Damascus (SY)  Damascus  (SY)
10th Istanbul Biennial - Panel Discussion,  Istanbul     (TR)
2004 Goethe institute - Video Art - lecture  Damascus  (SY)
2003 Goethe institute - Workshop leader  Damascus  (SY)


In Collections

2008

Enrico Navarra Gallery, "Examples" - Paris (FR)

2007  Darat Al-Funun Foundation "We, Nous, äÍä" - Amman (JO) Private Collections Syria, France, Canada, USA

Bibliography
 
Brochures
2009 "I’m Ashamed" Exhibition brochure - Damascus (SY)
2007 "Buthayna Ali 1999-2007" - Damascus (SY)
2006 "We, Nous, äÍä" Exhibition brochure - Damascus (SY)
2003 "Promises" Exhibition brochure - Damascus (SY)

Collectives Catalogues

2009 New Vision: Arab Contemporary Art in the 21st Century
Catalogue of Taswir Pictorial Mappings of Islam and Modernity Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin (DE)
2008 Catalogue of 11th Cairo biennial - Cairo (EG)
Catalogue of 10th ArtParis - Paris (FR)
2007 Catalogue of 10th Istanbul Biennale Istanbul (TR)
Exhibition catalogue "the professors of the Fine Arts faculty" - Damascus (SY)
2006

Exhibition catalogue "Painting-Professor the Fine Arts faculty" - Damascus (SY)

2004 Catalogue of Syrian culture week - London (UK)

 

 

 

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