Charles Khoury
Charles Khoury was born in Lebanon in 1966. Graduated from ALBA in 2005, since 1993 he has been teaching Fine Arts at the Saint Joseph School in Antoura. He is a member of the Salon d'Automne of the Sursock Museum since 1995, of the International Association of Fine Arts - Unesco in Paris and of the Association of Lebanese Artists. Since 1989, he has participated in numerous individual and group exhibitions in Côte d'Ivoire, Syria, Egypt, Kuwait, Lebanon, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Bangladesh, United Kingdom and France. He has held numerous personal exhibitions at the Janine Rubeiz Gallery: “Étreinte” (2003), “Peintures et sculptures” (2009), “Charles Khoury” (2012), and has also participated in group exhibitions: “Signes et contours "(1999)," Francophone faces "(2002)," Pinceaux pour plumes "at the Sursock Museum (2006)," Lines and colors "(2008) and" Clin d'oeil "(2014). Khoury's work has been featured in several art exhibitions: Art Dubai, “Abu Dhabi Art”, “Artuel”, “Art 14 London” and Beirut Art Fair. He has also participated in exhibitions such as the Bangladesh Biennale, the "Salon d'Automne" at the Sursock Museum, exhibitions at the French Cultural Center. In 2008, the Nicolas Sursock Museum awarded him the Special Jury Prize, and Artist in Residence: Lithography Workshop - Morocco in 2013. His work is permanently exhibited at the LT Gallery, Beirut
Charles Khoury's work is always marked by the use of a multicolored palette, with almost Savanian tones, and by the creation of primary tribal figures of beasts and humans. Faced with injustices, wars and all the turbulence that characterize the modern world and his country, Lebanon, painting is for the artist: “a parallel world, almost unreal. It's a world of beauty. I discovered that this one was the cure for everything. ".