Nabil Nahas

Overview

Born in Lebanon, Nahas spent his formative years in Cairo and Beirut. He attended university in the USA, earning a BFA from Louisiana State University in 1971 and an MFA from Yale University in 1973. Encounters with contemporary painters at Yale influenced Nahas to move to New York after graduation. Nabil Nahas currently lives and works in New York but still spends significant amounts of time in his native Lebanon. Nahas has exhibited extensively in the USA and abroad over the last three decades. His first major museum retrospective was held at the Beirut Exhibition Center in 2010. Public collections include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Tate, London; and the British Museum, London, amongst other international institutions. In 2013, Nahas was awarded the National Order of the Cedar for services to Lebanese culture, an honour rarely bestowed to visual artists.

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Nabil Nahas

Born	1949, Beirut, Lebanon Lives in New York City
EDUCATION
1971	Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, BFA
1973	Yale University, CT, MFA
AWARDS
1980	National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant
*ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS ( denotes catalogue)**
1973	Yale University, CT Yale University Chemistry Dept; mural
1977	Ohio State University, Ohio
1978	Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1979	Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1980	Robert Miller Gallery, New York
1987	Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
1988	Galerie Montenay, Paris
	Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
1994	Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
1997	Sperone Westwater, New York*
1998	Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC
	Milleventi, Milan
1999	Sperone Westwater, New York
2002	25th Bienal De Sao Paulo
2002-2003	J.Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, FL
2005	Galerie Xippas, Paris
	Sperone Westwater, New York
2009 2010 2011	Nabil Nahas: untitled (trees), Galerie Tanit, Munich Works: 1970-2010. Curated by Vincent Katz. Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut Palms & Stars, Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Dubai, UAE
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1977	Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 13th Weatherspoon Annual Exhibition
1979	Paintings on Loan from Private Collections, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	New York Now, Phoenix Museum, Phoenix, AZ

1980	Subject Space, Pratt Institute Gallery, New York
1981	Studio Museum of Harlem, New York
1983	Twentieth Century Art From the Metropolitan Museum, Queens Museum, Queens, New York
1987	Razzle Dazzle, SSC&B Worldwide Advertising, New York
	Art against Aids, Benefit Auction organized by Livet-Reichard, New York
1988	American Baroque, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
1993	Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
1994	Brian Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996	Sperone Westwater, New York
1997	Galerie Tanit, Munich
	What's Hot, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC
1999	Group Exhibition, Sperone Westwater, New York
1999-2000	Souvenirs: Collecting, Memory, and Material Culture, The Museum Guild Hall, NY
2000	Arte Americana; Ultimo Decennio, Museo d'Artedella Cittadi Ravenna, Ravenna*
	Le Temps Fractal, Galerie Xippas, Paris
2001	Painting Abstraction II, New York Studio School, New York
	Green on Greene, Sperone Westwater, New York*
2002	American Fractals, Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA*
	Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
	Blobs, Wiggles and Dots, Webs and Crustillations, The Work Space, New York,
2010	BARAKAT: The Gift. Contemporary Art from the Middle East and Africa, curated by Gaia Serena Simionati, Stux Gallery, New York
2011	Glasstress 2011: Collateral Event of the 54th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale diVenezia, Istituto Veneto diScienze, LettreedArti, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti; Berengo Centre for Contemporary Art and Glass, Campiello della Pescheria, Murano; Wake Forest University, Casa Artom, Murano, Venice; organized by Adriano Berengo Palms and Stars, Lawrie Shabibi, Dubai
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1979	Loring, John, "The Volatile Geometry of Nabil Nahas," Arts, February 1979
1980	Frank, Elizabeth, Subject Space, Pratt Institute: New York, 1981
	Raynor, Vivien, "Nabil Nahas," The New York Times, 10 October 1980
1981	Frank, Elizabeth, "Nabil Nahas at the Robert Miller Gallery," Art in America, January 1981, pp. 126-127
1983	Wintour, Anna, "Painting the Town," New York Magazine, 29 August 1983
1987	Russell, John, "Nabil Nahas and Alain Kirili," The New York Times, 30 January 1987, p. C22
	Westfall, Stephen, "Nabil Nahas and Alain Kirili at the Holly Solomon Gallery," Art in America, June 1987, pp. 152-153
1988	Dunning, Jennifer, "Premieres Offered by Muller," The New York Times, 14 April 1988
	Supree, Burt, "WoWoWo Feelings," The Village Voice, 26 April 1988
1989	Schwendenwien, Jude, Artforum, February 1989, p. 134
	Coleman, Andrew, "Holly Solomon Art Designs Its Own Room," Metropolitan Home, February 1989, pp. 160-164
	Groult, Catherine, "Nabil Nahas," Art Press, no. 133, February 1989, p. 80
	Boodro, Michael, "A Man of Many Faces," Vogue Decorations, no. 22, October-November 1989
1990	Bethany, Marilyn, "Interiors," New York Magazine, 9 April 1990
1991	Michetti, Chantal, "Audace Suisse," Connaissance des Arts, no. 473-474, July-August 1991, pp. 82-89
1992	Loring, John, "Realms of Gold," Worth, October-November 1992, p. 147
1993	Alhadeff, Gini, "The Well Composed Cottage," House and Garden, July 1993, pp. 67-73
1994	Adams, Brooks, Elle Decor, February 1994
1995	Dabadie, Marie, Maison & Jardin, March 1995, pp. 124-129
	Boodro, Michael, "Simplicité, compexité, humour et couleurcommevecteurs du courage de transgresser," Angeline's mag, no. 5, Spring 1995, pp. 12-14, 95
1997	Smith, Roberta, "Art in Review: Nabil Nahas," The New York Times, 17 January 1997, p. C27
	Ebony, David, "Nabil Nahas at SperoneWestwater," ArtNet Worldwide, January 1997
	Hogrefe, Jeffrey, "Nahas at SperoneWestwater," The New York Observer, 17 February 1997, p. 31
	Colman, David, "Nabil Nahas: Contrast and Texture That Originate From the Sea," Elle Decor, no. 52, April-May 1997, pp. 54-60
	Katz, Vincent, "Nabil Nahas at SperoneWestwater," Art in America, no. 5, May 1997, pp. 125-126
	Ratcliff, Cartier, Nabil Nahas, SperoneWestwater, New York, 1997
	Scruby, Jennifer, "All Revved Up!" Elle Decor, vol. 9 no. 5, August-September 1998, pp. 152-159
1999	Phillips, Owen, "Going About Town," The New Yorker, 19 April 1999, p 14
	Kuspit, Donald, "Nabil Nahas," Artforum, XXXVII, No. 10, Summer 1999, p.154
2000	Arte Americana; Ultimo Decennio, exhibition catalogue with essays by Claudio Spadoni, Alan Jones, Roberto Daolio, FernandaPivano, Mazzotta, Gabriele, Ed., Museo d'Arte della Citta di Ravenna: Ravenna, 2000
	Nuridsany, Michel, "Carte blanche pour le "fractal", Le Figaro, 11 July 2000
	*Gian Enzo Sperone; Torino Roma, New York; 35 Anni di Mostratra Europa e America, 2000, Hopeful Monster, pp. 464-465*
	Buci-Glucksmann, Christine, Le Temps Fractal, Galerie Xippas, Paris, 2000
2001	Boodro, Michael, "Fleeting Pleasures," Garden Design, April 2001, pp. 46-55
	Condé, Susan, La Fractalité dans l'artcontemporain, La Différence: Paris, 2001, pp. 108-112
	Green on Greene, Sperone Westwater, New York, 2001
2002	"25ª Bienal De São Paulo," O Estado de Sao Paulo," 15 April 2002, Brazil.
	"Nabil Nahas é o únicorepresentante do Libanona 25ª Bienal," 25ª Bienal De São Paulo, 6 April 2002, Brazil.
	"25ª Bienal De São Paulo," Jornalda Tarde, 10 April 2002, Brazil.
	Países: 25ª Bienal de São Paulo, exhibition catalogue, 25ª Bienal de São Paulo Nurisdany, Michel, "Sao Paulo, biennale des megapoles," le Figaro, April 5.
	Katz, Vincent, Nabil Nahas: Paintings 1990 - 2002, J. Johnson Gallery: Jacksonville, FL, 2002
2003	"Nabil Nahas," American Art at the Flint Institute of Arts, Hudson Hills Press: New York and Manchester, 2003, pp. 258-259.
2005	McKee, Lauren, "Art before the hiatus," am New York, 23 June 2005, p. 19
2008	De Dampierre, Florence. "Lots of Wonder," The New York Observer Home Magazine, Fall 2008, pp. 44-47
2009	Nabil Nahas: untitled (trees), Galerie Tanit: Munich, 2009.
THEATRE WORK
1988	Designed sets for "Occasional Encounter," Jennifer Muller Dance Co.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
	Vorhees Zimmerli Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
	FAE, Musée d'art moderne, Pully-Lausanne, Switzerland Museum of Fine Arts, Boston , USA Mathaf. Arab Museum of Modern Art. Doha Qatar