An art exhibition by these 3 artists coming from different backgrounds from the Middle East:
Riad Nehmeh:
A contemporary artist born in Baghdad in 1968, Nehmeh graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 1992. He left Iraq in 1977 and lives till now in Damascus.
Nehmeh has held several solo and group exhibitions in Damascus, Amman, Beirut, Prague, Washington, London, Paris, Abu Dhabi, Riyadh, Denmark, Tunisia and others. He earned the British Cultural Center award in Damascus.
Reem Yassouf:
Yassouf is a contemporary artist and a jewelry designer, born in 1979 in Syria. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in 2000.
Yassouf participated in international and Arabic workshops, and she also organized several exhibitions and workshops from which the most prolific is the Contemporary Arts workshop in the 2010 Sindiyan Festival.
She has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Damascus and Lebanon.
Yassouf entered the jewelry design field in 2000, and started working with diamonds, gold and precious stones in 2003.
She earned several awards, medals and appreciation certificates in drawing and jewelry design and amongst others, an Honorary PHD from the World Creativity Center in 2010 and certificates in the Assembly of Gold Worldwide.
Ashtarout Awwad:
Ashtarout Awwad was born in Byblos, Lebanon.
She earned her diploma in Drawing and Photography advanced studies in the Lebanese University and a Diploma in Interior Design from the Sacred Heart University in Kaslik.
Awwad has held several solol and group exhibitions in Lebanon, Paris and Los Angeles.