About
Simone
Fattal
artist
Simone Fattal is an artist who makes abstract and figurative ceramic sculptures, paintings, and collages. She studied philosophy at Ecole Modèle des Lettres, Beirut and at the Sorbonne, Paris. In 1969, she returned to Beirut and began painting. In 1980, she settled in California and founded Post-Apollo Press, a publishing house dedicated to innovative and experimental literary work. She returned to artistic practice in 1988 by doing ceramic sculptures, after enrolling at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco. Since 2006, she has produced works in Hans Spinner’s prestigious workshop in Grasse, France. In 2013, she released the film Autoportrait, which has been shown in many film festivals worldwide. Selected and most recent solo exhibitions include: Finding a Way, Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2021; A Breeze Over the Mediterranean, ICA, Milan, 2021; Works and Days, MoMA PS1, New York, 2019; and Garden of Memory, Yves Saint Laurent Foundation, Marrakech, 2018. She lives and works in Paris.
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