https://www.mfaraj.com/home daily 1.0 2018-10-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465910006112-QUHUGW3U79U9XVPUQBOB/Screen+Shot+2016-06-14+at+2.04.06+PM.png Home https://www.mfaraj.com/wood daily 0.75 2025-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1682555795555-TXU47YVM40VQ89074VT9/SunWeb.jpg Wood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1607807462650-JVEUXXHYTEEY3RK4HPEY/FWWW+III+2crop.jpg Wood 2014 Flying Without Wings III • Acrylic on gesso primed wood 121x151cm (w). Private Collection Kuwait. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/2b20fec0-f6ab-4940-8e0f-e6941dc3fc43/Wood28x23.jpg Wood - Make it stand out Further examples of wood cutouts by Maysaloun Faraj can be viewed in this catalogue. https://www.mfaraj.com/painting daily 0.75 2026-02-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/171344ce-1bc7-4024-80b2-d78ca3451f64/BustanOfLoveAPalmgroveInMyHeart.jpg Painting - Make it stand out 2025 Bustan of Love: A Palm Grove in My Heart (Nakhal Series) • 100x385cm Oil pigment on canvas. Private Collection New York. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/db32bafe-4fbb-4f47-82ec-38da9cfdaa72/4Nakhal.png Painting - Make it stand out 2025 Love (Nakhal Series): Fatima, Inaam, Firyal and Sabah • 80x30cm (each) Oil on canvas. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/7ddf934e-ed50-4493-b00b-0085f0541eaf/NakhalOOCDreamsOfAGoldenCity160x140x2cm2025.jpg Painting - Make it stand out 2025 Dreams of a Golden City (Nakhal Series) • 160x140cm, Oil pigment stick on canvas. Exhibited in the solo exhibition Roots & Horizons: T/Racing Time, Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait (11 Nov 2025 - 1 Jan 2026). Inspired by the enduring symbolism of the date palm, the Nakhal series transforms a deeply personal motif into a universal emblem of resilience and hope. Rooted in childhood memories of Baghdad’s palm groves, each Nakhla honours a woman whose strength mirrors the steadfastness of the palm herself. Through vibrant colour, flowing form, and emotional depth, the series celebrates unity, cultural memory, and the dialogue between heritage and universal human experience. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/ea0a8fd6-96c3-41e9-b202-c8b1814dc2c9/OOC+FromDarknessEmergesLight+130x170+2023.jpg Painting - Make it stand out 2023 From Darkness Emerges Light • 130x170cm (from a series of paintings inspired by Palestinian embroidery), exhibited at SILA: All That is Left to You (21 Sept 2005 - 05 Jan 2026), Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah, UAE. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/7f0e4d1a-b2b1-4a13-abac-fa782253ec7e/OOC+TheWhiteOrchid+180x160+2023.jpg Painting - Make it stand out 2023 HOME: The White Orchid (Oppenheimer, Barbie & Kawkaba) • Oil pigment on canvas 180x160cm. Private Collection Doha Qatar. During the Covid pandemic, with her studio inaccessible, Maysaloun Faraj turned to small works on paper, drawing her immediate surroundings. What began as a daily exercise in observation evolved into a way to process uncertainty, grief and stillness. Lockdown contrasted sharply with her earlier large geometric abstractions in Paris, yet the restrictions became unexpectedly freeing. Revisiting her architectural training in Baghdad, she explored ‘home’ both as a physical and spiritual space. Later, she expanded these studies into larger oil paintings, creating the HOME series. These works form a quiet, contemplative visual diary of a surreal global moment, and mark her recognition of London as ‘home’, intertwining past and present with resilience, belonging and renewal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1634687184179-6DWWO0TZRH58JCR2HX6J/TheBlueTulip.jpg Painting - Make it stand out 2021 The Blue Tulip (HOME 55) • 150x130cm Oil pigment on canvas. Private Collection Houston Texas The Blue Tulip is the second in a series of large oil on canvas paintings inspired by Maysaloun Faraj’s HOME series, begun at the start of the pandemic. Before this, her residencies at the Cité des Arts in Paris in 2015/17/18 sparked a body of work rooted in geometric abstraction as she immersed herself in the art of Kazimir Malevich, El Lissitzky, Sonia and Robert Delaunay, Wassily Kandinsky and others, whose works were within reach in the vibrant Marais district. Time spent at home during the lockdowns inspired a series of small drawings capturing intimate views of her living space and the objects within. Though seldom the main subject, these objects shaped the compositions as she continued to explore the power of colour and form, later reinterpreting these timely drawings on a larger scale. It seems that tulips come in almost every colour except blue. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1612820422570-BBM10VG5HF8X06C72TGR/HOME2+33+8Feb21+41x51cm.jpg Painting 2022 HOME2: 33 • Oil pastels on canvas 41x51cm. Presented as part of the solo-exhibition HOME Lockdown 2020-22 (9-22 June 2022) at Mark Hachem Gallery, Paris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/2f2de45d-6e6f-4430-92fe-f07c7b453d92/OilTheOrange.jpg Painting - Make it stand out 2022 The Orange • Oil pigment on canvas 140x160cm https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/b1f9829b-b185-471e-b417-113721b4e4d4/OilTeatimeDatesMatisse.jpg Painting - Make it stand out 2022 Teatime with Dates and Matisse (HOME16) • Oil pigment on canvas 165x145cm. Private Collection London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1572911710183-V0197L351Y16S4Z0HQ2E/Picture1.png Painting 2019 REVOLUTION • Acrylic on mixed media. Private Collection London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465226126009-RVKG3KQDVM7CJFNZCINL/image-asset.jpeg Painting 2015 Bird Symphony • Acrylic on paper/canvas Paris. MANSOURIA FOUNDATION Private Collection Paris. “Bird Symphony is a collection of drawings created during my first residency at the Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, hosted by the Al Mansouria Foundation from August to December 2015. The body of work consists of fifteen paintings in acrylic and coloured pencil on paper, made in response to the tragic mass migration witnessed across the world. Sadly, it is often in the name of Freedom and Democracy and in the name of Religion that atrocities are committed, leaving innocent lives in search of safety beyond their homelands. Forced to leave everything behind and to risk their very lives in the process, they flee abundant lands, precious homes and loved ones, carrying nothing but sorrow-filled hearts and treasured memories, with no certainty of what the future may hold.” mad world. Yet still... in the words of Amos Lee "Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world." https://www.mfaraj.com/clay daily 0.75 2025-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465080823417-WN71HFXWGSDRMD89WKW2/image-asset.jpeg Clay 2009 Yalli Imdhai' Wattan • Earthstone and velvet glaze 45cm. Private Collection Turin Italy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465080203170-IFM26KODCDTJC74TPFWR/image-asset.jpeg Clay 2008 Al-Melik Al-Qud’dous ‘The King The Most Sacred' Asma Allah al-Husna • Earthstone gold 12(h)x49(d)cm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/40511e5b-fe0b-4e93-81b2-0e5c4936e0da/CeramicAziza.png Clay - Make it stand out 2008 Aziza al-Baghdadia • Earthenware, turqoise glaze and cobalt oxides 40cm (height). Private Collection Paris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465079678533-0FIBYC4WK7A1M3FX7ANN/image-asset.jpeg Clay 2008 Ainaki Ghabeta Nekheel II • Earthstone, amber glaze and 24K gold 29x40x10cm. Inspired by the famous poem “أنشودة المطر” (Rain Song) by the late Iraqi poet Bader Shaker al-Say'yab, with inscriptions of its opening verses. In this poem, he combines his personal tragedy and the sociopolitical tragedy of his beloved homeland, Iraq. His words are as relevant today as the day they were written. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465154181189-00SNFXDV3W9GLNZUQHJW/image-asset.jpeg Clay 2008 Asma Allah al-Husna is a clay project in which Faraj specifically draws upon a method of Mesopotamian printmaking dating as early as 5000BC. “This awareness of her cultural heritage grounds her practice in ‘the evolutionary thread of art in Iraq’ to quote Lorna Selim. The personal, intimate nature of her sculpture creates an atmosphere of accessibility and openness, allowing new viewers with no previous knowledge of Iraqi history or art to join that same dialogue with ease. And ultimately, this fusion of ancient and contemporary is well-suited to Faraj’s aspiration to contribute, through her art, to defining the identity of a culture and a people.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/f79d5d04-5f2e-4366-a55e-2aee7823b709/Ceramics28x23.jpg Clay Further information and selected examples of ceramics by Maysaloun Faraj are featured in this catalogue. https://www.mfaraj.com/about daily 0.75 2026-01-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465138089083-FR9P45T28CXNSQZ1KM7C/MFC022a1.jpg About https://www.mfaraj.com/bronze daily 0.75 2025-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465135371391-6R68P6M3GJW208Y9KJEW/image-asset.jpeg Bronze 2012 I’jaz (Meem Hha Ain Seen Qaaf) • 155cm (h). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465252509397-S51QXBPBOXVETQSQVIOB/image-asset.jpeg Bronze 2010 Al-Rahman Al-Rahim • 145cm (h) Bronze. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1607624771255-DN1SLAOZZSQ6NXM2AI4W/BronzeDhammaAllahNoor.JPG Bronze 2010 Dham’ma Allah Noor • 45x45x9cm. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465083606931-S6BYGBHHDVPUGAJR42PZ/image-asset.jpeg Bronze 2010 Tomorrow My Heart Will Heal: Al-Mu'min Al-Mu'eed • 30cm (h) Bronze. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/0c275491-5892-4586-acbd-992fddf2735d/Bronze28x23.jpg Bronze Further Bronze works by Maysaloun Faraj can be viewed in this catalogue. https://www.mfaraj.com/contact daily 0.75 2025-12-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/ef5f9786-b288-401f-816f-fd13c47e1900/ArtSignatureRedDots.png Contact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1575505833691-WHWAUFTDG70Z8NDHZO2Y/iconfinder_Popular_Social_Media-08_2329265crop.png Contact https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1575506708026-T5MWXOEKJH11DSFAZZW3/iconfinder_Facebook_381389crop.png Contact https://www.mfaraj.com/publications daily 0.75 2025-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/974ea73e-69cc-4012-af9b-5fef25493d72/CAPCatalogue.jpg Publications - Make it stand out 2025 SOLO EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Roots and Horizons: T/Racing Time (Selected works 2005-25), Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait @capkuwait (11 Nov - 6 Dec 2025). CATALOGUE with Foreword by Venetia Porter and Introduction by Sophie Kazan Makhlouf. Contemporary Art Platform presents a solo exhibition by Maysaloun Faraj, featuring a curated selection of paintings spanning 20 years of her artistic exploration. Born in the United States, educated in Baghdad, and based in London with periods in Paris, Faraj’s work is shaped by memory, cultural heritage and the enduring search for meaning amid change. Engaging with place, identity and continuity, she transforms upheaval into visual poetry, finding harmony in chaos. From early geometric investigations to her acclaimed Nakhal and HOME series, the exhibition unfolds chronologically and thematically, inviting visitors to trace the evolution of her work alongside the life experiences it reflects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/acdaac3f-dae5-4ecc-b94c-6fe61a5ee030/almarkhiyabookcover.jpg Publications - Make it stand out 2024 SOLO EXHIBITION CATALOGUE HOME . Shooting Stars & Wings’ A Ten-year Odyssey (2014-24), AlMarkhiya Gallery, in collaboration with Dar Hessa lil Funoun, Doha, Qatar (23 April - 4 June 2024). Showcasing selected works made over the past decade, Faraj continues to explore universal themes, such as love, loss, courage and beauty, through various media, including drawing, painting, ceramics and sculpture, emphasising order, harmony, colour, and geometric form. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/ae06d92a-6541-44a8-9f74-a98493c159b0/ArtistsMakingBooks.jpg Publications - Make it stand out 2023 GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Artists Making Books: Poetry to Politics, The British Museum, (7 Oct 2022 - 17 Sept 2023). The ceramic work titled ‘History in Ruins’ is part of this small yet powerful exhibition, curated by Venetia Porter, at the British Museum. Maysaloun writes, “From the land between the two rivers, I pick up in my mind’s eye remnants of pages from an ancient past scripted on clay tablets, where man first recorded his deeds and victories, and recreate my own. I ‘sew’ them together in an act of healing and hope. I stand them tall and proud, like an open gate, defiant and dignified like our precious date palms, like our people, like our spirit. Our history, ‘world’ history, is in ruins; shattered and burnt to the ground”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/bdb33d93-1009-4fc2-8227-10b98746b0c7/WorldLitToday.jpg Publications - Make it stand out 2023 ARTICLE Four Artists of Iraqi Descent, by Dr Shakir Mustafa forthe scholarly journal World Literature Today featured the work of Maysaloun Faraj on it’s cover with an in-depth article about her work and that of three distinguished Iraqi artist: Hussain Harba, Athier Mousawi and Suad al-Attar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/6f50587a-cd9e-40bc-b7f2-97afc3cb5bad/BookFrontCover.jpg Publications - Make it stand out 2022 SOLO EXHIBITION CATALOGUE HOME Lockdown 2020-22 (selected pages) Published October 2022. Extensively illustrated, this special signed & numbered limited edition book includes one limited edition print from the HOME series, and features drawings and paintings made during the pandemic lockdowns; a visual memoir marking a pivotal moment in world history, from a personal point of view. With a critical essay by Dr Shakir Mustafa, the publication seeks to throw light on art made at a particularly challenging time in our collective memory. “When homes across continents shut off to the ‘outside’ world, I found myself inviting people ‘inside’ my otherwise very private world; my HOME, albeit through art! Surrounded by ceramics, sculptures and paintings I love, viewers joined me for a soothing ‘cuppa’ on my turquoise sofa, an ‘istikan of love’, ‘tea with dates and Matisse’, fruits from a treasured glass basket, or simply a wind-down with orchids, tulips and sunflowers, around that ‘magical glass table that never knew how magical it was until lockdown”. ISBN 978-0-9559586-1-8 Soft cover, 156 pages 23x28cm, 145 colour reproductions. Available at Waterstones and the artist’s studio. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/3090f73e-97ec-46c4-8e59-2bf9cb1000bf/HarbaCollection.jpg Publications - Make it stand out 2014 PRIVATE COLLECTION Longing for Eternity, One Century of Modern and Contemporary Iraqi Art, Hussain Ali Harba Family Collection, Skira Publishers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/6cbe8e50-ac05-4708-95a0-0638296d8f63/WeAreIraqis.jpg Publications - Make it stand out 2013 PUBLICATION We Are Iraqis: Aesthetics and Politics in a Time of War, by Nadje al-Ali and Deborah al-Najjar. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465220233319-QSJWDK4S0NK71JCTC73I/06+16+Press.jpg Publications 2009 GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Iraq's Past Speaks to the Present John Addis Islamic Gallery British Museum London 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465219648491-QDRPDDOHOZASIZE95M48/image-asset.jpeg Publications 2009 SOLO EXHIBITION CATALOGUE MAYSALOUN FARAJ Boats and Burdens: Kites and Shattered Dreams, AYA Gallery, London 2009. “For the women of Iraq who, despite burden upon unprecedented burden, stand tall, proud and resilient, like her precious date palms, nurturing like the sweet waters of Dijla and Furat. And for her children who will reclaim the skies with their imagination, the future with their dreams”. Kites and Dreams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465220100624-TXY3DCKM47QK46CVX3MF/06+15+Press.jpg Publications 2008 GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Word into Art: Artists from the Modern Middle East Venetia Porter The British Museum Press London / DIFC Dubai 2008. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/b32a7856-affd-4e7c-adf9-62976584232b/WordIntoArt.jpg Publications 2006 GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Word into Art: Artist from the Modern Middle East VenetiaPorter The British Museum, London 2006. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465223675714-DNOI7HC6RXFZ5ML291ZL/06+14+Press.jpg Publications 2006 GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Occupied Space: Art for Palestine Palestine Solidarity Campaign & Qattan Foundation London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1008e80f-19c2-4312-a2d1-6930d8ea97a2/SymbolsOfHarmony.jpg Publications - Make it stand out 2004 GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Symbols of Harmony: Arts from the Islamic World, Aya Gallery in collaboration with Kent Gallery, Kent, UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/056ed56c-11de-4bb5-971f-9f1f850ff8e6/DiversityInHarmony.jpg Publications - Make it stand out 2003 GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Diversity in Harmony, Alfred Berkowitz Gallery, The University of Michigan, USA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/9f3535be-bb12-4835-a348-cf367519806d/DepaulUni.jpg Publications - Make it stand out 2003 GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Strokes of Genius: Contemporary Iraqi Art: Iraqi Art Now: Looking Out, Looking In, DePaul Art Museum, DePaul University, Chicago, USA 2003, 16 January - 16 March 2003. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465223828248-CPZW3N0IS0R456KJCRIJ/06+09+Press.jpg Publications 2002 GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Master Strokes The October Gallery in collaboration with Lulu al-Humoud London 2002. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465293801322-5NB995ACYOW0BLY0DQAK/06+10+Press.jpg Publications 2002 GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Contemporary Arab Art Dale Egee Wereldmuseum Rotterdam Netherlands 2001. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465222536500-WB0UCWZU2KJ19SGSJULK/07+04+SOG.jpg Publications 2001 GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Strokes of Genius: Contemporary Iraqi Art Maysaloun Faraj (Editor) Saqi Books London 2001. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465222675148-0PHTLC7P4G4F9O4NC4AP/06+06+Press.jpg Publications 1999 GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Contemporary Arab Women's Art: Dialogue of the Present Fran Lloyd Womens Art Library London 1999. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465293976668-FUDYWZYS20LCA2B4XKSX/06+07+Press.jpg Publications 1999 GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Artists for Human Rights Trust International Print Portfolio Universal Declaration of Human Rights Commission Durban South Africa 1999. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465222858962-5VWI0WDZ3XJBXIM1DE3B/06+02+Press.jpg Publications 1994 GROUP EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Forces of Change: Arab Women Artists Selwa Mikdadi Nashashibi, International Council for Women in the Arts & National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington USA 1994. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/c5878467-2c47-4619-9152-a912e41e90db/Markhiya1.JPG Publications - Make it stand out 2024 ARTICLE Maysaloun Faraj’s Creativity in Doha for the First Time, almarkhiya Gallery, ALDOHA ALSHARQ. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/c5b63a77-9c03-48b3-9950-fd6c13191af0/Markhiya2.JPG Publications - Make it stand out 2024 ARTICLE Exhibition Launch of Maysaloun Faraj: HOME, Shooting Stars and Wings (A Ten-Year Odyssey), almarkhiya Gallery, ALDOHA QANA, Doha Qatar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/58dba25c-8cd7-4a38-af25-cc20bce787a8/Markhiya3.JPG Publications - Make it stand out 2024 ARTICLE Exhibition curated by almarkhiya Gallery and Dar Hissa for the Arts, Fire Station, Doha, Qatar https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1519477925061-TNA4X0LKBEB0IDI5UWGM/Selections+%2342+Mona+Khazindar+interiews+Maysaloun+Faraj-1.jpg Publications 2018 INTERVIEW Selections Magazine | Interview by Mona Khazindar 2018. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1519478286907-4LVZ20ZGR22VJFKI9MOC/dc6b523a-dd44-4cec-acc1-1dccef73ee6b.jpg Publications 2017 ARTICLE Cultural Narratives | Selections #44. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/a45a2a8b-326b-43fb-9b6d-5ede2a3a74ba/SajidRizvi.jpg Publications - Make it stand out 2007 ARTICLE Eastern Art Report by Sajid Rizvi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465296038893-8SM537Y4VN1P4UW2KDNY/06+13+Press.jpg Publications 2004 FEATURE The Middle East in London First Issue London 2004. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465293767967-Z62Z3GHLZ8I84K557EDR/06+08+Press.jpg Publications 2001 ARTICLE The Middle East in London SOAS Conference Stacey International London 2001. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465296069058-W69GLAD1VDAZ1LI1OB7L/Art-from-the-Islamic-World.jpg Publications 1996 ARTICLE Arts & the Islamic World Issue No 29 Article by Therese Rinaldi London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465296601437-PY5CX6WYCVPM8WX0LZVR/20120212190019_00001.jpg Publications 1995 ARTICLE Uyoun Arabiya Arabian Eyes Exhibition of Arab women artists at Beit al-Sirkal Sharjah UAE 1995. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465324824260-Q7CPIFXXOWB83XE6VIIK/07+01+SOG.jpg Publications 1995 SPECIAL VISIT Wilfred Thesiger epic meeting in preparation for the project at the time: Strokes of Genius: Contemporary Iraqi Art 1995. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465296280542-WYRPATE0BIIX2CR5QMWE/06+04+Press.jpg Publications 1995 ARTICLE Al-Bayan Uyoun Arabiya Exhibition of Arab women artists at Beit al-Sirkal Sharjah UAE, 26 Nov 1995. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465318433786-5QU1W2XZ0CE5VH2QBHXZ/image-asset.jpeg Publications 1995 ARTICLE Hello! 1995. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465296194923-GH5QXZZW80AKG3ZOWQ1O/06+05+Press.jpg Publications 1994 SOLO EXHIBITION INVITATION Argile Gallery, Blenheim Crescent, London 1994. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1465298417034-6XJUVF0M39X3ZME2CPYK/06+01+Press.jpg Publications 1992 ARTICLE Sayyidaty by Waheeda al-Miqdadi London 1992. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/271d016f-453f-4a20-b0bc-db52740868db/Bronze28x23.jpg Publications 2020 ARTIST-CURATED CATALOGUE Maysaloun Faraj BRONZES 2010-20. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/7e6257fa-13a9-46b5-999f-f1f2ac7c215e/Ceramics28x23.jpg Publications 2016 ARTIST-CURATED CATALOGUE Maysaloun Faraj Ceramics. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/2be85e49-48f4-48ad-84a6-5e8bd4c1642e/BirdSymphonyParis28x23.jpg Publications 2015 ARTIST-CURATED CATALOGUE Maysaloun Faraj Bird Symphony Paris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/66278246-4d53-4a6d-a3b2-8f368a550376/Wood28x23.jpg Publications - Make it stand out 2014 ARTIST-CURATED CATALOGUE Maysaloun Faraj Wood Cutouts. https://www.mfaraj.com/biography daily 0.75 2026-01-13 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/cefd4ee0-d547-47d6-91ce-373fbdc8eebe/SSParisSirius73x60x2cm2018.jpg Biography https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/2360d381-5e0e-4e3f-bdb2-7e1f8f48df7c/StudioNakhalMe2025+03.JPG Biography - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.mfaraj.com/media-coverage daily 0.75 2026-03-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/16126a33-3d08-4ed1-a6f7-55384ace01c1/Sada.JPG Media Coverage - Make it stand out GROUP EXHIBITION: SADA صدى (Echo), curated by @katiebone. Artists: @sarachoudhre @maysalounfaraj @lulwah_al_homoud @amberkhokhar @farwamoledina. 25 Mar-1April 2026 Reed Smith, 1 Blossom Yard, London E1 6RS. Partners @reedsmithllp, Forward Thinking, For press, interviews, and enquiries: info@sadacontemporary.co.uk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/02feca2f-31ff-42cf-ac1f-569bcc4dc1fb/SelectionsArticle.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2025 ARTICLE Roots and Horizons: T/Racing Time (Selected works 2005-25), Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait @capkuwait 11 Nov - 6 Dec 2025 by Selections Arts @selections_arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/c211ea8e-fd1a-4a92-9fcc-a68d657a3410/Events.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2024 SOLO EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT HOME Shooting Stars and Wings, Doha Qatar, 23 Apr - 21 June 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/13e6f78b-8aa1-4334-9504-c9aca8401ba7/LetsMakeLight.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2024 SOLO EXHIBITION ANNOUNCEMENT Let Us Be Light Galerie Mark Hachem Paris, 18 - 25 Sept 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/3aa78542-e9bd-48cb-9da4-8543ff6c2312/OPENSTUDIO1.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2023 OPEN STUDIO ANNOUNCEMENT In My Home Are Many Homes, 15 Fulham High Street, London SW6 3JH, 9-11 June 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/491c2485-f4bb-4b5f-ac03-aac362261d70/Ithra.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2023 ARTICLE HOME Through the Eyes of Maysaloun Faraj, by Manar Al-Mutairi for Ithra Magazine, 31 July 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1a3ddde6-d608-45e5-b40c-44cc5547d186/History+in+Ruins+%28front%29.JPG Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2023 GROUP EXHIBITION Artists Making Books: Poetry to Politics British Museum, 7 Oct 2022 - 17 Sept 2023 History in Ruins (Earthstone and raffia, 30x60cm, 2005 Collection of the British Museum) Curated by Dr Venetia Porter, I am proud to announce that my ceramic work titled ‘History in Ruins’ is part of this small yet powerful exhibition currently on show at the British Museum. “From the land between the two rivers, I pick up in my mind’s eye remnants of pages from an ancient past scripted on clay tablets, where man first recorded his deeds and victories, and recreate my own. I ‘sew’ them together in an act of healing and hope. I stand them tall and proud, like an open gate, defiant and dignified like our precious date palms, like our people, like our spirit. Our history, ‘world’ history, is in ruins; shattered and burnt to the ground.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/31faa924-577c-4adb-8e54-6d3cd0e4b613/MenaArtFair.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2023 GROUP EXHIBITION Menart Fair (Middle East & North Africa Art), Belgium Brussels, 2-5 February 2003. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/776aa616-5cb0-43c5-a7a4-c5f2c3305ab7/MHInvitation.jpg Media Coverage 2022 SOLO EXHIBITION HOME Lockdown 2020-22, Galerie Mark Hachem, 9 - 22 June 2022, 28 Place des Vosges, Paris. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/641af331-80d0-435f-a176-74bd3671ca6a/OilTeatimeDatesMatisse.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2022 ARTICLE Teatime with Dates and Matisse by Rawaa Talas for the Arab News, 17 November 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/30e685be-018e-40c2-9f5a-af059284c27a/ItsNiceThat.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2022 ARTICLE It’s Nice That A “fusion of east and west, Maysaloun Faraj sees art as an important means for self-exploration, by Olivia Hingley, 5 May 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/6dc2a5fe-b6a5-4330-ba35-82fa2d35e625/Book%26MeAtStudio.JPG Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2022 ARTICLE Fee Ibtikar al-Jamal’ (In Creating Beauty) 24 October 2022, by Farouq Salloum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/9417abda-7588-4f62-bf53-421213224f77/Flowers.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2022 GROUP EXHIBITION Hidden UK, Hidden Ireland, Flowers Gallery, 13 July - 3 Sept 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/06def9b8-8f53-43d3-9e2f-7e0042e2dc2f/AlNahar.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2022 ARTICLE Maysaloun Faraj Reconstructs her Home at Mark Hachem Gallery by Hadani Dairi for Annahar Newspaper, 18 June 2022. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/bd19198e-1537-443e-a06a-610e9cc44008/DirtyBarn.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2021 ARTICLE Maysaloun Faraj Documents This Surreal Time of Pandemic in ‘Home’ Series, Dirty Barn by Miray Sincer, May 2021. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/bfd2a7a0-4916-4dd0-a79e-81cde927410f/SceneArabia.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2020 ARTICLE Iraqi Artist Maysaloun Faraj on Art And Identity In Isolation And Beyond, Scene Arabia by Dalia Awad, 13 May 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/852d1aca-7fb4-445b-ab7e-9a2103e14364/TheSpaces.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2022 ARTICLE The Spaces Selects 5 inspiring creatives to follow on Instagram, by Marcia Veiga. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/681c79a9-8084-40a6-89c2-d7007dd124c9/Ahram.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2020 ARTICLE Stay Home: Draw Home: Domestic vantage points, Iraq-style Ahram Online by Rania Khallaf, 23 June 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/5bd7c0dc-5c56-4ca6-b81b-7e901302e04c/MEI1.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2020 GROUP EXHIBITION Art in Isolation: Creativity in the Time of Covid-19, Middle East Institute Washington USA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/cc9cdf3b-f58f-42e3-85cf-f316aa7562d6/MEE.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2020 ARTICLE Coronavirus and art: How Middle East artists have responded to lockdown by Tim Cornwell, 1 May 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/3f1fe9a0-268e-427a-95dd-30142f7a7d29/AlBab.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2019 ARTICLE Maysaloun Faraj: Flying Without Wings.Arab Art Online https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/90e68510-26f7-467c-8a33-308b7c9b2469/BarjeelFoundation.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2009 Barjeel Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/6b990bff-26cb-416a-b3ab-ecfd30324ce7/Selections1.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2020 ARTICLE Artists in Quarantine, Selections Arts, 9 March 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/2355eed2-3376-4bf9-892a-c40481619e70/Ibrahimi.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2016 ABOUT Ibrahimi Collection, Amman, Jordan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/e8d7ca38-2c55-4c5c-8faa-ed66112db72f/ALARABIYA.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2025 DOCUMENTARY Roots and Horizons: T/Racing Time (Selected works 2005-25) at Contemporary Art Platform, Kuwait @capkuwait 11 Nov - 6 Dec 2025, by AlArabiya TV, . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/02facb07-8657-482b-9abf-6592d28dbc60/OneMinute.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2023 ART MINUTE DOCUMENTARY, Art Minute by Sophie Kazan 27 July 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/44183b38-761c-4371-ac5e-7619f89b742b/RicardoKaram.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2013 DOCUMENTARY Hadeethun Akher Interview with Ricardo Karam for AlSharqia TV Channel 2013. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/44bcbec5-0679-4eda-a5e4-d70b6f46f99c/Aljazeera.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2007 DOCUMENTARY Stolen Dreams directed by Christine Garabedian and introduced by Raghi Omar, following the artists Maysaloun Faraj, Hana Mal Allah and Rashad Selim in the lead up to the exhibition: Sophisticated Ways in the Destruction of an Ancient Cityheld at Ayagallery 2007. A two-part online feature is viewable on Witness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/1cf74e21-282a-49d1-b7b0-5baa83c36977/Asmahan.jpg Media Coverage - Make it stand out 2006 DOCUMENTARY Art & Artist: Maysaloun Faraj by Asmahan al-Karjousli. https://www.mfaraj.com/the-joury-collection daily 0.75 2024-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/57530550f699bbcdcc3dc14c/c72cb9c1-634e-4a9a-afb1-21928cecc9b1/NS001.jpg THE JOURY COLLECTION - Make it stand out Sunset on Dijla: Fal’lah and Wife 49x40cm Coloured pencil and watercolour on paper Baghdad 1986 Signed ‘الى عزيزتي ميسلون، المخلصه نزيهه سليم' I chose this work to kickstart The Joury Collection display, as it holds a special place in my heart! We visited Baghdad for the Biennale 1988, in which I was a participating artist. We were generously hosted at Al-Mansour Melia Hotel, which became a hub buzzing with social, intellectual, and artistic engagement! The highlight for us, however, was when one morning, we received a knock on our hotel room door, to find none other than my former art teacher at Baghdad High School, Ms Neziha Selim! She had a rolled paper in one hand and coloured pencils in the other. ‘O my God, ‘Sit’ Neziha, please come in’! She sat in the chair, I on the bed across! She un-rolled the paper onto her lap and immediately started to draw the finishing touches! Ecstatic, I asked ‘But Miss Neziha, how did you remember me after all these years!?’ She looked straight in my eyes and said ‘How can I forget my beautiful talented student!?, signed the drawing, handed it to me, and left! I was moved to tears!