Mira El Khalil

Master’s student in Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Mira El Khalil is an emerging artist from the Middle East whose work is published and exhibited internationally. Her paintings’ are the album of her origins which lay somewhere between Beirut city’s waterfront, her imagination and the mountainscapes of Lebanon.

If you are interested in Mira’s work, please email all inquiries to me20148@sia.edu

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About

Having spent her childhood and university years in Beirut, Mira’s work builds on this experience and her nurturing relationship with the city. Inspired by its religious, political and geographical diversity, her paintings juxtapose Beirut’s cultural vibrancy and the impact of political instability. A great body of her work is made up of staple seascapes with raging waves that crash into the prominent facade of the Holiday Inn. A victim to the fires during the 1975 Lebanese civil war, it mounts over the turmoiled waters as a symbol of endurance and resistance to many storms witnessed and experienced by Lebanon ever since.

Having presented these works a year ago, Mira sold out her first solo show on the very opening night and had attracted a great media attention with the representation of the old hotel. Her recent work Inside Out further builds on this subject by also encapsulating Mira’s own thoughts, reflections and dreams. Standing out for her unique perception of the city and its socio-political landscape, Mira El Khalil is an inspiring Lebanese talent to look out for and to collect.

Biography

Mira received a Bachelor’s Degree in Media Studies from the American University of Beirut. She holds a diploma in Western Art from Sotheby’s Institute of Art and has returned to undertake her Master’s degree in Art Business. Mira has featured in numerous exhibitions in Beirut and has had her work published internationally.