Lina Karam

I am born in Beyrouth,Lebanon, the 10 th of july 1958,my father was an architect and i lived in a family sensitive to art and creation.
In1976,i moved to Paris,France because of the civil war .
Of course my parents stayed there in the war,as they built an architecture agency in Beyrouth; then my father died...I was seventeen.
I am an artist,i paint and design since a long time .
I studied at les ateliers Guillaume Met de Penninghen et Jacques Dandon,as a graphic artist,and i was graduate in 1980.
I studied also at the Beaux Arts school in Paris.,anatomy of the body.
In 1982 ,i met a lot of interresting people in Paris,
very famous artists,designers,critics...
80's were very exciting!it was years of more prosperity and freedom , in all the ways !!it was also very lively and full of beautiful events.
I realy loved the life style,i was attracted by art exhibitions paintings and photography,fashion shows,nightlife...and everything the fantastic city could offer...
I started to do some fashion illustration in magazines,and to paint with oil on canvasses" people and parties"!!
I was surounded by artists ,some remain very good friends until today!!
It was also a time in art where the european" transavangarde "and the"figuration libre...

I studied graphic art at ESAG school /les ateliers Guillaume Met de Penninghen et Jacques Dandon .
Beaux arts school in Paris,atelier Fontaine/Debors.Anatomy of the body.

Paris,France, with ESAG art school.1980 group show at the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris,France.
1982 Salon d'automne in Paris,France.
1983 Salon de la jeune peinture in Paris,France.
1984 show group la mode en
peinture curated by Prosper Assouline,espace Marithé et François Girbaud in Paris,France.
1986 Exhibition at Jean Pierre Lavignes Gallery in Paris,France/
preface by Jean Luc Chalumeau.
1987 Group show at Leanardo Arte Gallery in Rome,Italy.
1994 Première Vision show exhibition in Paris,France.
1999 Exhibition at" Les Bains
Douches"curated by Cathy and David Guetta,in Paris,France.
2007 Group show,"Art protects" Aides at Yvon Lambert Gallery in Paris,France.
2009 Group show,"Art protects" Aides at Yvon Lambert Gallery in Paris,France.
2009 Solo exhibition at Deborah group by Sophia Bonetti , in Milan,Italy.
2010 Solo exhibition at Knott Gallery ,by Jean Paul Knott, in Brussels,Belguim.
2013 group show Art en Capital ,Grand Palais in Paris ,France.
2014 Artwork "shells and pink heart"featured on the Art Screen at Saatchi Gallery,London,England.
2015 Artwork"ondulations mythologiques"featured on the Art Screen...