Occupation: Painter, Writer Media: Oil, Acrylic; Computer. Born Jerusalem, Palestine, December 12, 1936; United States citizen.
Education Michigan State Univ, with Abraham Rattner & Borris Margo, MA, 60. Ind Univ, with James McGarrell, MFA, 63.
Teaching Positions Teaching asst, Ind Univ, Bloomington, 62-63; instructor, Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, 63-64; asst professor, Kansas City Art Inst, Missouri, 64-66; vis lectr, Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, 66; asst professor, Univ Michigan, Ann Arbor, 67-69; associate professor, Ind Univ, Bloomington, 69-72; vis lectr, Yale Univ Sch Art, New Haven, Connecticut, 72-73, associate professor, 73-76, adjunct associate professor, 76-82; vis professor, Univ S Florida, 90; adjunct professor, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Sci and Art, New York, 89-91; vis artist, BeirZeit Univ, Palestine, 97.
Business and Professional Positions Artist-in-residence, Tamarind Lithography Workshop, 72; curator, Al Jisser Group, 2001-; guest curator, The Subject of Palestine, at DePaul Univ Mus, 2005.
Commissioned Works Lithograph, Cleveland Mus Print Club, 74; stage set and costume design, Dance Company Perspective in Motion, Pace Univ, New York.
Public Works Art Inst Chicago; Detroit Inst Art; Cincinnati Art Museum; Cleveland Museum of Art; Guggenheim Museum; Nat Mus Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Yale Univ Gallery; British Museum; Indianapolis Mus Art; Inst du Monde Arab, Paris; Sioux City Art Center; Alternative Mus, New York; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts; and others.
Exhibitions Solo exhibs, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, 71-72, Yale Sch Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 72, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, 78, Housatonic Mus, Bridgeport, Connecticut, 83, Tossan-Tossan Gallery, New York City, 83, 88, Darat Al-Funun, Amman, Jordan, 95, Galerie Atassi, Damascus, Galerie le Pont, Aleppo, 97, Agial Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon, 99, Sakakini Art Center, Ramallah, Palestine, 2000, Skoto Gallery, New York, 2000, Artim Gallery, Strasbourg, France, 2001, Agial Gallery, Beirut, 2004, Agial Gallery, Beirut, 2007, Ayyam Gallery, Damascus, 2008; Group exhibs, Yale Univ Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, 73, Guggenheim Museum, New York City, 75, Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York City, 77, Ind Univ Art Museum, 77, Univ Hawaii, 90-91, Sangre de Christo Arts Center, Pueblo, Colorado, 91, Nat Mus of Women, Washington, DC, 94, Elizabeth Found, United Nations lobby, NYC, 99, Bradley Univ, Ill, 2001, Musee du Chateau Dufresne, Montreal, 2001, The Station, Houston, 2003, Bridge Gallery, NYC, 2006.
Bibliography Art and liberation: Samia Halaby speaks, Aurora, spring 82; Jonathan Goodman (author), Samia Halaby Arts Mag, 5/88; Kathy Zarur (author), Looking at the Levant, Art in America, 9/2006.
Publications Nature, Reality & Abstract Picturing, Leonardo, 10/87; Pictures in Computer Medium, Proceedings, 9th Symp of Small Computers in the Arts, 89; On Art and Politics, Arab Studies Quarterly, spring/summer 89; Technology, Abstraction & Kinetic Painting, Papers of the 4th Int Symp Electronic Art, 93; Rhythms, The aesthetics of electronic painting, Papers of the 7th Int Symp Electronic Art, 96.
Honors and Awards Creative Artists Public Serv Prog Grant Painting, 79.
Memberships Al Jisser Group.
Research Area Liberation Art of Palestine.
Arranged Collections Paintings/drawings done by Palestinian Artists with focus on Libertarian Art.
Areas of Interest Programming moving abstract images.
