Hala Mouzannar

Born in Beirut in 1968, Hala Mouzannar came to the world of art after decades of experience in the creative industry. She worked as a Media executive and planner, a director of acquisitions and a creative stylist of her own jewellery shop before shifting to a painting practice in 2015. She holds a BA in Business Administration from the American University of Beirut and has recently earned an MFA in the Visual Arts from Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA).

Hala Mouzannar gives prominence in her work to the materiality, and vicissitudes, of the flesh. She dwells on the material surface of her canvases, creating tears, crusts, and chutes from the manipulation of a mélange of stone powder, silicon, latex, gauze, and oils. The formation of differently textured surfaces, in a range of exuberant and at times corporeal colours, invokes in the viewer visceral bodily sensations of both (interested) pleasure and perturbation.

Latest solo shows:

2023 Si La matiere pouvait parler, Agial Gallery, Beirut

2021 La chasses aux papillons, Agial Art Gallery, Beirut

2021 Hala Mouzannar, Marie Jose gallery, London

Latest group exhibitions:

2021 La Maison Abandonnée, Beirut, Lebanon

2021 Arthaus Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon

2020 Green Cedars, The French Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon

Available Works