Asaad Arabi Syria, b. 1941

Ayyam Gallery is pleased to present Strata a collective exhibition featuring works by Asaad Arabi, Abdul-Karim Majdal Al-Beik, Farzad Kohan, Mouteea Murad, Tammam Azzam, and Thaier Helal.

Ayyam Gallery Beirut is pleased to announce A Collective Memory: 2007 to 2017, a solo exhibition by painter, theorist, and critic Asaad Arabi.

Ayyam Gallery Beirut is pleased to present Apertures, a collective exhibition that brings together diverse painters. Featuring the works of Asaad Arabi, Mouteea Murad, Oussama Diab, Kais Salman, and Tammam Azzam, this thematic show highlights works that, despite addressing a range of subject matter, use meticulous divisions of space, particularly openings or compartments, in order to describe the underlying psychology of hidden realms or laden spaces.

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 Dubai (DIFC) is pleased to announce Return to Abstraction, the solo show of Asaad Arabi, a pioneering contemporary Arab painter and acclaimed art theorist. After years of musical expressionism, with colourful series portraying the iconic Um Kulthum, Arabi returns to lyrical abstraction, all the while preserving a vibrant palette, harmonious compositions, and multi-angle method of execution.

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 Jeddah is pleased to announce Om Kalthoum, a solo exhibition of Syrian artist Asaad Arabi from 24 April – 30 May 2013.

Ayyam Gallery Dubai DIFC is pleased to announce Nostalgia, the upcoming solo exhibition of Syrian painter Asaad Arabi from September 12 to October 27.

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.

Ayyam Gallery Beirut is proud to present the latest body of works from Master painter Assad Arabi.

Othman Moussa, one of the applicants to "The First Ayyam Prize for Emerging Syrian Artists" in 2006, and arguably the most impressive Hyperrealistic young artists in Syria, will be showcasing a collection of his Still Life paintings alongside one of the Arab world's most respected artists and art critics, Asaad Arabi.

Ayyam Gallery, Dubai has gathered some of Syria's finest contemporary names from its formidable stable of artists for a group exhibition which will feature a vast variety of media. Some of the artists express themselves in shades of black and white, while others opt for colour. The show is an expression of both and will include paintings and photographs that cover different subjects, styles and techniques, all drawing on colour or monochrome. The six artists on show will be Khaled Takreti, Safwan Dahoul, Nassouh Zaghlouleh, Ammar Al-Beik, Asaad Arabi, and Youssef Abdelke. The exhibition is in essence six solo shows brought together by the theme of Black versus Colour.

During the summer season and with "Damascus Arab Capital of Culture" that's running through the year 2008, Ayyam Gallery is celebrating this event by highlighting Syrian art and artists under Contemporary Syria collective exhibition. A collection of 150 artworks by Ayyam emerging and established artists and also by old masters will be showcased all along the summer. New exhibited works each week.

Ayyam Gallery will celebrate its first anniversary on the 11th of November, 2007 with a solo exhibition and official book release, detailing the life and art of one of the Middle East's greatest artists and writers: Asaad Arabi.