Born in 1953, Fatima Al Hajj first graduated in 1978 from the Institut des Beaux-Arts at the Lebanese University in Beirut, and later from the Academy of Fine Arts in Leningrad. She then completed her studies from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Paris in 1983. She was awarded with the Picasso Prize in Madrid in 1985, and has been teaching in Beirut at the Institut des Beaux-Arts ever since. She has been regularly exhibiting her works since 1986 in Lebanon as well as in other Arab countries where she is well-known, such as Kuwait, UAE, Syria, Bahrain, Morocco and Qatar, but also in Europe, such as in Spain and France.
Prizes and Awards
2017 Souad Al Sabah’s prize, Kuwait
2012 “Hommage aux vétérans de la culture au Liban et dans le monde arabe XXVIIème, génération 2012, Fatima El-Hajj”, Antelias, Beirut
2007 First award, EMAAR International Art Symposium (EIAS), Dubai
2001 Second award in Lazikiah Biennial, Syria
1985 International Picasso award, The Spanish Culture Institute and the public
administration of cultural relations, Ministry of Foreign affairs, Madrid, Spain
1984 International Picasso award, The Spanish Culture Institute, Beirut
Selected Solo & Group Exhibitions
2020 Anima Gallery, Qatar
2020 CAP Gallery, Kuwait
2019 Espace Claude Lemand, Paris, France
2018 Alwane, Saïfi Village, Beirut, Lebanon
2017 Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris, France
2016 Alwane, Saïfi Village, Beirut, Lebanon
2014 Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris, France
2014 Boushahri Art Gallery, Kuwait
2013 Alwane, Saifi Village, Beirut, Lebanon
2012 Alwane, Saifi Village, Beirut, Lebanon
2011 Galerie Claude Lemand, Paris, France
2010 Fa Gallery, Kuwait
2010 Alwane, Saïfi Village, Beirut, Lebanon
2008 Alwane, Saïfi Village, Beirut, Lebanon
2005 National Center of Culture, Arts and Literature, Kuwait
2004 Alwane, Kaslik, Jounieh, Lebanon
2004 Fateh Al-Muderess Atelier, Damascus, Syria
2004 Emar, Lazikiah, Syria
2001 Alwane, Kaslik, Jounieh, Lebanon
1999 Almada Gallery, Damascus, Syria
1999 Sharjah National biennial, UAE
1997 National center of Culture, Arts and Literature, Kuwait
1996 Alwane, Kaslik, Jounieh, Lebanon
1994 Represented Lebanon in second Francophone Festival, Paris
1994 Alwane, Kaslik, Jounieh, Lebanon
1992 Alwane, Kaslik, Jounieh, Lebanon
1991 Amateur, Alwane, Lebanon
1989 Alwane, Kaslik, Jounieh, Lebanon
1988 Alwane, Kaslik, Jounieh, Lebanon
1985 Spanish Culture Center, Beirut, Lebanon