Jean-Marc Nahas
Born in Beirut 1963, Jean-Marc Nahas earned his M.F.A after graduating from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts (ENSBA), Paris and divides his time between North America, Europe and the Middle East.
Jean-Marc Naha’s work is held in museums, private and public collections such as: The British Museum, the Musée du Louvres, Sursock Museum, Bank Audi Foundation as well as Pier Franco Grosso private collection in Paris.
Jean-Marc says that when he draws, it’s like “I’m writing a book, poetry, like I’m writing a letter to someone”. Many of these “letters” deal with the issues of war and peace, but The Middle East in London newspaper wrote of Nahas: “Unlike some of his fellow artists for whom the drawn-out conflict appears to have had little tangible impact on their artistic expression, for Jean-Marc, the scars of war run deep within his psyche, healed only by the cathartic practice of drawing”.
Latest Solo Shows:
2018 Beirut Art Fair (Cadillac painting – installation)
2018 Sherif Tabet, art gallery Beirut
2018 Temps Libre, Montreal
2018 Miami Design District Art Space,Miami Florida
2019 Lebanese Talent Art Gallery, Beirut
2019 Banzy art Gallery, Beirut
2019 Cinéma du parc, Montreal
2019 Art Basel, Miami Florida
2019 Clio Art Fair New York
2020 Contemporary Art Platform Gallery, Kuwait
Latest group shows:
2011 Subtitled: “with Narratives from Lebanon”, Royal College of Art,
London Rebirth, Beirut Exhibition Center, Beirut 2008 “Reorientations:
Contemporary Arab Representations”, European Parliament, Brussels 2004 “Fall
Exhibition”, Sursok Museum Beirut, Lebanon
Available works
Untitled - Picasso said : “You paint the same canvas all your life.” I believe I have told the same story all my life, that of a man tired of a senseless fight against his destiny, 2011, mixed media on canvas, 120 x 120 cm
Old King - We will all go to heaven, unfortunate in politics, unfortunate in love, unfortunate, quite simply. I have hope for a better life after, 2010, Acrylic on canvas, 110 x 95 cm
Black and white drawings
Expressing with violence, humour and sarcasm, all the frustrations of the people who have lost everything before their time. Deprived of everything, lacking money and political solutions, they only have the sea, a headlong rush.
2019, marker on paper, 50 x 70 cm
