Ayman Baalbaki was born in 1975, the year the Lebanese Civil War started. He received his bachelor’s degree in Fine Arts from the Lebanese University in Beirut, Lebanon, and a diploma of Etudes Superieures in Space Art at the ENSAD, Paris, France. He completed his D.E.A in “Art of Images and Contemporary Art,” in Paris VIII in 2003. Recent exhibitions include Arabicity/Ourouba curated by Rose Issa at The Middle East Institute in Washington D.C., USA (2019); the 13th Cairo Biennial, Egypt (2019); Glasstress 2019 curated by Vik Muniz and Koen Vanmechelen at the Berengo Center for Contemporary Art and Glass in Murano, Italy (2019); Le Monde Arabe Vu Par Ses Artistes at Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, France (2018); Scripted Reality at Lawrie Shabibi in London, UK (2018); Hommage à Marwan at Galerie Pankow in Berlin, Germany (2018); Blowback at Saleh Barakat Gallery in Beirut; Lebanon (2016); and Thin Sin: Six Artists from Beirut at Taymour Grahne Gallery in New York, USA (2014); among others. His work is featured in private collections and museums such as the Tate Modern, the Ramzi and Saeda Dalloul Art Foundation, Fondation Carmignac, and KA Private Art Space. A monograph of his work with essays by Philippe Dagen, Paul Ardenne, Thierry Savatier, and Nayla Tamraz is forthcoming. Ayman Baalbaki represented Lebanon at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022 with Danielle Arbid.
