Ghia Haddad

Ghia Haddad is a visual artist from Dubai. Born in Beirut, she lived through war and displacement and understands the power that art and artists have to spark positive social change through expressive color and imagery. She is passionate about examining identities of underrepresented women through her figurative art. Ghia expresses these identities by infusing her female portrait paintings with flowing fabrics, handmade flowers, beads, string and embroidery, thus challenging the traditional belief that fiber art does not have a legitimate space within high art. She also paints Arabic calligraphy with fabric collages on acrylic pours - vivid expressions in the language of her people; Arabic words mirroring the journey of their experience and the shades of their shifting identities.

Ghia obtained a BS in Advertising Design and a BA in Art History from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1991, and a Masters degree in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester in the UK in 2025.

Ghia participated in many online exhibits including:
-Her Story- Manhattan Arts International March-May2023
-Paradise Pink - HMVC Gallery NY, February 2023
-The Fabric of Our Lives- SOLO SHOW, Women United Art Movement- Jan-Feb2023
- Our Stories - Photo Trouvée Magazine, November 2022
⁃ Bringing Color to the World - Art Mums United, Sept-Oct2022
⁃ Our Reflection - The Huts Magazine, July 2022
⁃ Oppositions - Holy Art Gallery, May 2022
⁃ Changing the World, Women Role Models - WCADC, May 2021
⁃ Intrinsic Nature - Curator’s Salon, June 2021

Ghia exhibited in DIFC Art Nights in November 2020; and was also included in the Portrait Show at Hubspace Gallery in Dubai Sep4-11, 2022 and in the Art Is Life show at Boushahri Gallery in Kuwait - Aug15-Sep15 2022.

December 2022 saw her work exhibited in Al Fanar Restaurant, UAE National Day Exhibit, and in Kawkab Art’s Dubai Box Park Art Show.