Samia Halaby
Palestinian-American artist
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| 2024 | Samia Halaby was originally scheduled to have her first retrospective exhibition in the United States at Indiana University Bloomington's Eskenazi Museum of Art, which was ultimately cancelled. |
| 2024 | Her artwork is included in the Venice Biennale, a prestigious international art exhibition. |
| 2023 | Exhibited at Taipei Fine Arts Museum in Taipei, Taiwan. |
| December 2023 | Samia Halaby's first US retrospective at Indiana University Bloomington's Eskenazi Museum of Art was cancelled by the university, citing 'safety concerns'. Halaby believed the cancellation was an attempt to suppress Palestinian voices during the Israel-Hamas war. |
| 2019 | Endows the Samia A. Halaby Foundation to support working-class and Palestinian liberation movements. |
| 2012 | Contributed a scholarly chapter titled 'The Pictorial Arts of Jerusalem During the First Half of the 20th Century' to the book 'Jerusalem Interrupted: Modernity and Colonial Transformation 1917-Present', published by Olive Branch Press. |
| 2011 | Palestinian conceptual artist Khalil Rabah included a portrait of Samia Halaby in his large-scale project of 'ready mades', featuring a photograph from her first exhibitions in the 1960s. |
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