Zena El Khalil Explained

Birth Date:1976
Birth Place:London, England
Nationality:Lebanese
Alma Mater:School of Visual Arts, American University of Beirut
Website:http://www.zenaelkhalil.com/

Zena El Khalil (born 1976)[1] is a Lebanese artist, writer, and activist.

Biography

El Khalil attained her undergraduate degree from the American University in Beirut. In 2002 El Khalil received her Masters of Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York.[2]

El Khalil works in a variety of formats ranging from painting, installation, performance, mixed media, writing, video, and collage. Themes that are central to her work include issues of violence as well as gender using materials found throughout Beirut. Photocopied images of militiamen and women, civilians and family members are embellished with plastic flowers, glitter, strings of lights, keffiyehs, plastic toy soldiers, toy AK-47s, arabesques, beads, fabrics, and other objects. She has had solo exhibitions in London, Munich, and Beirut. El Khalil currently lives and works in Beirut.

During the July War in Lebanon, El Khalil immediately began maintaining beirutupdate from her apartment in Beirut. Her blog was a personal account of the siege on Beirut that lasted for 33 days and its impact on her and the people around her.[3] It quickly received international attention and was highly publicized on news portals such as CNN and the BBC. Excerpts were published in daily papers, including The Guardian and Der Spiegel Online. Her writing was also included in the anthology Lebanon, Lebanon published by Saqi Books. In the aftermath of that war, Zena El Khalil curated with Sandra Dagher Nafas Beirut, a multimedia exhibition including 40 artists testimonies of the war.[4]

In 2008 El Khalil also completed her first novel, Beirut, I Love You.[5] [6] [7] The book is a memoir about El Khalil's life from 1994 to the present and specifically focuses on growing up in Beirut during a period of immense turmoil. There are also rumors that the book is going to be made into a film.[8] [9]

Work

Solo exhibitions

Selected group exhibitions

References

  1. Web site: Zena el Khalil . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230225150446/https://www.nyrb.com/collections/zena-el-khalil . 25 February 2023 . 24 December 2021 . . en.
  2. Web site: 2021 . Web Exhibition: Zena el Khalil . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230225160337/https://www.moca.london/we_zenaelkhalil.html . 25 February 2023 . 28 February 2023 . MOCA, London . en.
  3. Sinno . Nadine . Spring 2014 . Five Troops for Every Tree: Lamenting Green Carnage in Contemporary Arab Women's War Diaries . . en . 36 . 2 . 107–127 . 10.13169/arabstudquar.36.2.0107 . free.
  4. Web site: 2006 . Nafas Beirut . usurped . https://web.archive.org/web/20111104195915/http://www.xanaduart.com/nafas.html . 4 November 2011 . 22 January 2012 . Xanadu Art .
  5. Web site: Degli Esposti . Emanuelle . An artist of Beirut: Zena el Khalil . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20201111213458/http://www.thearabreview.org/zena-el-khalil-interview/ . 11 November 2020 . 2 February 2016 . The Arab Review.
  6. Book: El Khalil, Zena. Saqi. 978-0-86356-415-4. Beirut, I love you. London. 2009.
  7. Hout . Syrine . Spring 2017 . Artistic Fallout from the July 2006 War: Momentum, Mediation, and Mediatization . . 39 . 2 . 793–814 . 10.13169/arabstudquar.39.2.0793 . free.
  8. Web site: Zena el khalil – Beirut, I Love You. www.zenaelkhalil.com. 2016-02-25.
  9. Web site: Murphy . Maureen Clare . 25 October 2012 . Zena el Khalil's critically praised 'Beirut, I Love You' now available as e-book . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221002165424/https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/maureen-clare-murphy/zena-el-khalils-critically-praised-beirut-i-love-you-now-available-e-book . 2 October 2022 . 25 February 2016 . The Electronic Intifada.
  10. Web site: Cornwell . Tim . 9 October 2017 . Beirut's Museum of Memory opens first exhibition—minus a director or board of governors . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211204191623/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2017/10/09/beiruts-museum-of-memory-opens-first-exhibitionminus-a-director-or-board-of-governors . 4 December 2021 . 28 February 2023 . The Art Newspaper.
  11. Web site: Stoughton . India . 20 September 2017 . Zena El Khalil on how her exhibition at Lebanon's first museum will lead to forgiveness, compassion and love . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20221026180612/https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/art/zena-el-khalil-on-how-her-exhibition-at-lebanons-first-museum-will-lead-to-forgiveness-compassion-and-love-1.630195 . 26 October 2022 . 28 February 2023 . The National . en.
  12. Web site: Schwab . Katharine . 5 October 2017 . This Lebanese Artist Paints With The Ashes Of Civil War . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20211203080636/https://www.fastcompany.com/90145380/this-lebanese-artist-paints-with-the-ashes-of-the-civil-war . 3 December 2021 . 28 February 2023 . Fast Company.
  13. Web site: 20 September 2017 . Zena El Khalil's passionate exhibit at Beit Beirut Museum . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230301042303/https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/23753/Zena-El-Khalil-s-passionate-exhibit-at-Beit-Beirut-Museum . 1 March 2023 . 28 February 2023 . Egypt Today.
  14. Web site: Collier . Lizzy Vartanian . 20 November 2017 . Zena El Khalil: Healing Beirut . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230302025206/https://www.ash-magazine.com/art-1/2017/9/19/artist-of-the-month-sara-andreasson-b39rj-xw798 . 2 March 2023 . 1 March 2023 . Ash Magazine . en-US.
  15. Web site: 17 April 2013 . Zena el Khalil (Lebanese, b. 1976) - Don't Call Me Baby . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230302035515/https://www.christies.com/en/lot/lot-5665873 . 2 March 2023 . 1 March 2023 . . Exhibited: London, The Flawless gallery, Maybe one day Beirut will love me back..., October 2008 (illustrated in colour, pp. 22-23)..
  16. Web site: Maybe one Day Beirut Will Love Me Back . El Khalil . Zena . live . https://archive.today/20230302040104/https://www.abebooks.com/Day-Beirut-Will-Love-BAck-KHALIL/31078915464/bd . 2 March 2023 . 1 March 2023 . . en . Sale page for exhibit catalog . Published to accompany an exhibition of the same name that between October 4th and October 19th 2008 at the Flawless Gallery, London.
  17. Web site: Colette . Khalaf . 12 May 2006 . Le Beyrouth aigre-doux de Zena el-Khalil, jusqu'au 27 mai . The bittersweet Beirut of Zena el-Khalil, until May 27 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230301043332/https://www.lorientlejour.com/article/531037/Le_Beyrouth_aigre-doux_de_Zena_el-Khalil%252C_jusqu%2527au_27_mai.html . 1 March 2023 . 28 February 2023 . . fr.
  18. Spring 2005 . Alumni Exhibitions . live . Visual Arts Journal . . 13 . 1 . 45 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230302040742/http://umcreatedev.com/presentation/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/vajournal-spring05-small.pdf . 2 March 2023 . 1 March 2023.
  19. Web site: 27 April 2003 . El-Khalil, Lebanese National, Opens Solo Exhibition . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230302044622/http://news.biafranigeriaworld.com/archive/2003/apr/27/0009.html . 2 March 2023 . 1 March 2023 . ThisDay News - Biafra Nigeria World.
  20. Web site: Kuhl . Christopher . 21 February 2013 . Beyond Stereotypes: Art and the New Arab Reality . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220824002033/https://hyperallergic.com/65499/beyond-stereotypes-art-and-the-new-arab-reality/ . 24 August 2022 . 1 March 2023 . . en-US.
  21. Mann . Nicola . May 2013 . All the fun of the fair . . 40 . 6 . 2–3 . 10.1525/aft.2013.40.6.2 .
  22. Web site: Kamien . Allison . 1 March 2013 . Spotlight on Art13 London . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220524121503/https://news.artnet.com/market/spotlight-on-art13-london-37276 . 24 May 2022 . 1 March 2023 . . en-US.
  23. Web site: Westall . Mark . 25 January 2013 . 20 Art Projects at Art13 London . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20230302042633/https://fadmagazine.com/2013/01/25/20-art-projects-at-art13-london/ . 2 March 2023 . 1 March 2023 . FAD Magazine . en-GB.
  24. News: Quilty . Jim . 16 March 2012 . To better understand East East, through the West . . ProQuest.
  25. Web site: 2012 . Art is the Answer! . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20220518235942/https://www.villaempain.com/en/expo/art-is-the-answer/ . 18 May 2022 . 1 March 2023 . . Boghossian Foundation . en-US.
  26. Web site: Past Exhibition at Galerie Tanit - Zena el Khalil 'But I can't let go' and Lamia Ziadé 'Hotel war' [2008] ]. live . https://archive.today/20230302035531/https://www.artnet.com/galleries/galerie-tanit/zena-el-khalil-but-i-cant . 2 March 2023 . 1 March 2023 . Artnet.com.
  27. Book: The resilient landscape: exhibition catalogue . 2007 . Ivan Dougherty Gallery . 978-0-7334-2574-5 . George . Phillip . Paddington, N.S.W . Library record for exhibit catalog . 1 March 2023 . MacNeill . David . Sabsabi . Khaled . https://web.archive.org/web/20230302031321/https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4300520 . 2 March 2023 . live.

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