Salwa Zeidan


Salwa Zeidan is a Lebanese artist, sculptor, and curator.

Biography

Born in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon, Zeidan left Lebanon in the 1980s. Zeidan moved to the United Arab Emirates where she continued working as a painter. She curated exhibitions in different venues before she opened her first Art Gallery in 1994, the first Art Gallery in the Capital of UAE, Abu Dhabi. Zeidan works in a variety of mediums ranging from painting, mixed media, and sculptures conceptual art. Themes that are central to her work include issues of freedom and longing for higher truth and knowledge. Her work oscillates in the field of abstract minimalist art and contains notions of calligraphy. Her paintings and sculptures can be found in galleries around the world including the USA, Switzerland, Italy, France, London, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iran, Egypt and Lebanon. Zeidan currently lives and works in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates where she runs her contemporary art gallery and showcases selections of Emirati, International and Middle Eastern artists.

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