Born in Beirut in 1971, Bettina Khoury Badr’s work confronts the abstract with the representational, the gestural with the still. Her work draws inspiration from Lebanon, her place of birth, and the events that are part of the recent shattered past. She delves into memory and depicts fragments of reality.
In 2001, she received her Diplôme d’études supérieures in Fine Arts and a Master’s degree in Fine Arts in 2012 from the Lebanese University. The intervening years were spent in teaching and developing her artistic vision. She held solo exhibits at Kromatik Art Gallery in 2012 and Art on 56th gallery in 2018. Badr’s work was featured in 2015 in Mark on the Wall in conjunction with the Virginia Woolf conference at Bloomsburg University, and in the Salond’Automne Sursock Museum in 2018, 2016, 2012. More recently she exhibited in the Togetherness Collective at Galerie Tanit and in the 2022 Collective How will It End? presented by the Boghossian Foundation, organised with the Centre Pompidou.
Since 2010, she has been teaching at the Lebanese American University in Beirut, where she is a regular participant in exhibitions such as _State of Things _in 2022.

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