February, 2000
DATE & PLACE OF BIRTH: December 12, 1936, Jerusalem, Palestine
SELECTED ONE ARTIST SHOWS of static paintings
2000 Skoto Gallery, New York
2000 Sakakini Art Center, Ramallah, Palestine
1999 Agial Gallery, Beirut
1997 Galerie Atassi, Damascus, Syria
1997 Galerie le Pont, Aleppo, Syria
1995 Darat Al-Funun, Amman, Jordan
1993 911 Gallery, Indianapolis (Electronic Gallery also on the INTERNET)
1988 Tossan-Tossan Gallery, New York City (also in 1983)
1983 Housatonic Museum, Bridgeport, Connecticut
1978 Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York City
1972 Yale School of Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
1971 Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago
PERFORMANCES AND CONFERENCES of kinetic paintings
1998 The Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
1998 Lincoln Center, New York
1997 Philadelphia College of Art
1997 Sakakini Art Center, Ramallah, Palestine
1997 Darat al funun, amman, Jordan
1997 Galerie Atassi, Damascus, Syria
1997 American Cultural Center, Damascus, Syria
1997 Galerie le Pont, Aleppo, Syria
1996 HERE, New York City
1995 Poetry Project, New York City
1995 ISIS Symmetry Conference, Washington DC
1994 SCAN (Small Computers in the Arts Network) Conference, Philadelphia
1994 Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
1993 FISEA (Fourth International Symposium on Electronic Art) Minneapolis
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
1999 “World Artists at the Millenium” Elizabeth Foundation, UN visitors lobby, NYC
1998 Williamsburg Art and Historical Society, Brooklyn
1998 Darat Al-Funun, Amman
1994 Forces of Change, National Museum of women, Washington, DC
1991 Digitized and Manipulated, Sangre De Christo Arts Center, Pueblo, Colorado
1990-91 Hilo International Exhibition Works on Paper, Univ. of Hawaii
1990 Prix Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
1977 Contemporary American Printmaking, Indiana University Art Museum
1977 Group Show, Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York City
1975 Recent Acquisitions Guggenheim Museum, New York City
1973 American Drawing, Yale University Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
SELECTED PUBLISHED PAPERS
The Landscape of Palestine in Arabic Art, The Landscape of Palestine: Equivocal Poety,
edited by I. Abu-Lughod, R. Heacock and K. Nashef. Birzeit University Publications
Technology, Abstraction, and Kinetic Painting, FISEA PAPERS, November 1993, pgs 57-66
Pictures in Computer Medium, PROCEEDINGS of the 9th SCAN Conference, 1989, pgs 100 to
On Art and Politics, Arab Studies Quarterly, winter/srping 1989
The Monitor as Picture Plane, PROCEEDINGS of the 8th SCAN Conference, 1988, pgs 109-114
Nature, Reality and Abstract Picturing, Leonardo, Volume 20, issue 3, 1987
SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Alternative Museum, The Art Institute of Chicago, The British Museum,
Detroit Institute of Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art,
Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Fort Wayne Museum of art, The Guggenheim Museum,
Indiana University Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Institute Du Monde Arab,
Mead Art Museum, Memphis State University, Michigan State University Museum,
The National Museum of women in the Arts, Nelson Rockhill Gallery of Art,
Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm springs, Sioux City Art Center, Speed Art Museum,
Tamarind Institute, University of Michigan, Yale University Gallery
SELECTED REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
Samia Halaby by Jonathan Goodman, Arts Magazine, May 1988, page 89
Reviews, Arts Magazine: January 1984, pgs 45-55; September 1978, pgs 44 & 45; May/June,
pa 74
True Art is the Art of Research by Salah Hashem, KULALARAB, Neuilly sur Seine, rance, December 1987, pages 52-55 (Arabic)
Tamarind: 25 Years 1960-1985 by Carter Ratcliff, carated by Marjorie Devon, University Art Museum show catalog,
University of New Mexico, Albaquerque, New Mexico
A conversation with Samia Halaby by Salwa Techrarian, Arab Perspectives, Oct 1984, p 28-31
Art is a Living Thing by Mary Trasco, Indiana Alumni Magazine, October 1980, pgs 10-12
Cleveland Print Club Publication No. 53, 1975
TEACHING
1997 BeirZeit University, Palestine, Visiting artist for 3 weeks
1989-91 The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, Adjunct Professor part time
1990 University of South Florida, Tampa, Visiting Professor for one semester
1985-86 Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut, Visiting Lecturer 1972-73,
Associate Professor 1973-76, Associate Professor Adjunct 1976-82,
1969-72 Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, Associate Professor
1967-69 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Assistant Professor
1966 University of Hawaii Summer Session, Honolulu, Visiting Lecturer
1964-66 Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, Assistant Professor
1963-64 University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Instructor
1962-63 Indiana University, Bloomington, Taching Assistant
EDUCATION
1961-63 Indiana University, Bloomington, Master of Fine Arts in Painting
1959-60 Michigan State University, E. Lansing, Master of Art in Painting
1954-59 University of Cincinnati, Ohio, Bachelor of Science in Design
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