Elias Nafaa is an artist living and working in Lebanon. His practice is informed by his background in architecture. He looks into space as a place of storytelling, shedding light on the political through the personal; his work is highly subjective, often non-linear, and spatially nuanced.
Read MoreHis work has been featured at MACAM, and was presented as part of the collective exhibition Togetherness at Galerie Tanit, Beirut. In 2021, he was the youngest artist selected to exhibit at Lights of Lebanon: modern and contemporary art from 1950 to today at the Arab World Institute (IMA) in Paris.
In 2022, he presented his first solo exhibition Impulsions at ArtLab, Beirut.
Elias participated in both the CATAPULT.visual’arts programme by the British Council and NAFAS programme by the French Institute completing artists residencies in Arbroath, Edinburgh and Paris.
He is currently part of the Home Workspace programme by Ashkal Alwan.
His work is part of the Donation Claude et France Lemand, Musée de l’IMA.
Courtesy Galerie Tanit, Munich/Beyrouth.