Samia Halaby Palestine, b. 1936

In the Footsteps of Cai Lun II: Selected Works on Paper assembles a group of painters and artists who have used drawing and printmaking as primary media. The exhibition features Tammam Azzam, Nihad Al-Turk, Mohammad Bozorgi, Thaier Helal, Samia Halaby, Athier Mousawi, and Faisal Samra.

Samia Halaby’s most recent works reflect everything but stillness, each canvas emulating space encompasses energy and movement, brimming intuitive complexity. Samia invites us to see nature and urban scenes through her vision, immortalizing a dynamic setting through brush strokes and color, creating infinite layers of moving parts.

Ayyam Gallery Beirut is pleased to announce Opacity and Transparency, a solo exhibition of New York- based artist Samia Halaby presenting her latest works.

Ayyam Gallery Dubai is pleased to present you + topia, a collective exhibition.

Ayyam Gallery Dubai (11 & 12 Alserkal Avenue) is pleased to announce Illuminated Space and Documentary Drawings of the Kafr Qasem Massacre, the concurrent solo shows of New York-based artist Samia Halaby. These side-by-side exhibitions present Halaby’s latest abstract paintings alongside a series of drawings from a long-standing project that led to her most recent publication Drawing the Kafr Qasem Massacre (Amsterdam: Schilt Publishing, 2017).

Ayyam Gallery Dubai (11 & 12 Alserkal Avenue) is pleased to announce Illuminated Space and Documentary Drawings of the Kafr Qasem Massacre the concurrent solo shows of New York-based artist Samia Halaby. These side-by-side exhibitions present Halaby’s latest abstract paintings alongside a series of drawings from a long-standing project that led to her most recent publication Drawing the Kafr Qasem Massacre (Amsterdam: Schilt Publishing, 2017).

Ayyam Gallery Beirut is pleased to present Painting Across Generations, a collective exhibition that highlights contemporary painters from the Middle East who are recognised as international trendsetters.

Ayyam Gallery Dubai (DIFC) is pleased to present Shapeshifters and Transformations, a collective exhibition that brings together five leading artists from the Arab world. Highlighting works by Samia Halaby, Faisal Samra, Safwan Dahoul, Tammam Azzam, and Athier Mousawi, Shapeshifters and Transformations details the ways that artists are currently addressing exigent subject matter, including large-scale violence, the adverse effects of technology in the modern age, and changing landscapes.

Ayyam Gallery is pleased to present 10:52, a collective exhibition that commemorates the tenth anniversary of its founding. Highlighting all fifty-two artists who have had solo shows at its different locations in the past decade, this selection of works reflects Ayyam Gallery’s evolution as one of the leading art spaces in the Middle East and North Africa.

Ayyam Gallery is pleased to present Painting from the Sixties and Seventies, the forthcoming solo exhibition of pioneering Palestinian artist Samia Halaby. Widely recognised as an innovator of abstraction and a leading painter from the Arab world, Halaby will exhibit a selection of works from the initial period of her oeuvre. The nearly two-dozen paintings on display will offer a rare look into her artistic development by charting several groundbreaking experiments across diverse bodies of work. The exhibition will mark the first time that such a seminal collection of Halaby’s paintings is shown in Europe.

Ayyam Gallery Jeddah is pleased to present Contemporary Arabia, a multimedia exhibition featuring a selection of established and emerging Arab artists, including Samia Halaby, Tammam Azzam, and Shaweesh, to be held 5 May until 7 June 2014.

Ayyam Gallery, Dubai (Al Quoz) is pleased to present Samia Halaby: Five Decades of Painting and Innovation, the first major retrospective to be organized for the renowned artist. Curated by art historian Maymanah Farhat, this comprehensive survey will feature over fifty works of art, representing every period of the artist’s oeuvre and the many creative experiments and breakthroughs that have resulted.

Ayyam Gallery London presents an exhibition of paintings by pioneering Palestinian artist Samia Halaby, who is widely credited with inspiring the new school of abstraction in contemporary Arab art. Parallel to her artistic career, Halaby is an active political campaigner for Palestine, as well as a scholar who has been instrumental to the documentation of Palestinian art, publishing her landmark text Liberation Art of Palestine: Palestinian Painting and Sculpture in the Second Half of the 20th Century in 2002.

Ayyam Gallery Dubai (DIFC) will proudly present Trees and The High Rising City, the solo show of Palestinian artist Samia Halaby. Coinciding with the opening of Art Dubai, which will feature several large collages by Halaby, the exhibition will highlight recent works by the seminal artist.

From February 1 until March 31, the Ayyam Art Center in Dubai will proudly present Selections from The Samawi Collection, a large-scale exhibition that will feature several periods of Arab art through three distinct curatorial themes.

Then What? 1965 – 2010 is an exhibition that illustrates the direct (and indirect) furthering of Kayyali’s committed spirit in nearly a dozen works by some of the Middle East’s most influential artists. Drawn from the Samawi Collection of Art, which contains over 3,000 outstanding modern and contemporary international works and has a special influence on the Middle East, these superb examples of Arab art span over fifty years. Together they demonstrate the many ways in which Kayyali and a handful of his colleagues paved the way for the fashioning of a socially conscious milieu in regional art.

From October 7 – November 27, Ayyam Gallery Beirut will proudly present an exhibition of over a dozen new large-scale canvases by leading Arab artist Samia Halaby. Coinciding with the release of an Ayyam Publication’s new monograph on Halaby, this solo show will pay tribute to one of the Arab world’s most innovative abstract painters.

Levant Summer exhibition at Ayyam Damascus. From 04/07 till 15/08/2009. Vernissage: Saturday 4th of July at 7:00pm. Four of the most influential artists from the Levant, Samia Halaby from Palestine, Nadim Karam from Lebanon, Nassouh Zaghlouleh and Mouneer Al-Shaarani from Syria join hands for this exhibition showcasing their latest works.

Ayyam Gallery - Dubai is pleased to announce the opening of Stories from the Levant, an exhibition highlighting our commitment to contemporary Middle Eastern art with some of the finest examples of work in the region today. On view from January 22 - February 14, Stories from the Levant will feature painters Samia Halaby and Tammam Azzam and multidisciplinary artist Nadim Karam.

Samia Halaby is about metamorphosis. Entering her world is like having a conversation in a submarine. You are underground. In a place so unfamiliar it becomes strangely familiar. In a place so unusual it becomes inexhaustible; in a place as majestic, maze-like and wondrous as the world found in the pages of Alice in Wonderland. Painting to her "is visual ideas".