ARTIST PROFILE

Elissar Kanso

  • Lebanon (b. 1982 in Beirut)
  • Currently in Bordeaux, France.
  • I paint to make sure not to die while being alive ! My act of making Art is a metaphoric one.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016

  • Voir à distance : La métaphore, Flora Tristan Gallery- Bibliothque Flora Tristan, Bordeaux, France.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017

  • La Biennale Organp : Seconde peau (Double skin) , Les Vivres de L'art, Bordeaux Maritime, Bordeaux, France.
  • Macla Muestra d'Art contemporain Latino Americain, Marché de Lerme, Bordeaux, France.

2016

  • Migration, Halle des Chartrons, Bordeaux, France.
  • Breakfast in Beirut, Villa Giovannina, Treviso, Italy.
  • Moi/Femme/Encore, Atelier Carmen herrera Nolorve, Bordeaux, France.

2015

  • Les insoumises, Espace saint-Remi, Bordeaux, France.

2014

  • Animalitude, Atelier Herrera Nolorve, Bordeaux, France.

2013

  • Entre figures flottantes, Le Hill Gallery, Bordeaux, France.
  • Chili, Le rêve de Neruda, Espace saint-Remi, Bordeaux, France.

2012

  • Afak, The Venue Exhibition Hall, Beirut, Lebanon.
  • Salon d'Automne, Sursok Musuem, Ashrafiye, Lebanon.

2011

  • Visual Art Forum 2, Unesco, Beirut, Lebanon.
  • Neuf Artiste de Bordeaux (Lion's Club), Espace saint-Remi, Bordeaux, France.

2010

  • Friction, Maison des Arts, Bordeaux, France.
  • Visual Art Forum, Unesco, Beirut, Lebanon.
  • 2nd Art Meeting 2010 Ikas Art, BEC Bilabo exhibition center, Bilbao, Spain.

2009

  • Salon d'Automne, Sursok Musuem, Ashrafiye, Lebanon.

2008

  • Al Awael, Lebanese Association for Art, painting and Sculptor, Beirut, Lebanon.
  • French Institute, Tripoli, Lebanon.

2007

  • AlBalkaa Institute for Applied Art, Amman, Jordan.
  • ECUME (cultural exchange between universities of Art in the mediterranean), Fine Art Institute, Damas, Syrian Arab Republic.
  • ECUME (cultural exchange between universities of Art in the mediterranean), Fine Art Institute, Damas, Syrian Arab Republic.

2005

  • First Year, Exhibition Hall, Fine Art Institute., Beirut, Lebanon.

LOCATION

  • Born 1982 in beirut, Lebanon.
  • Lives and works in Bordeaux, France.

EDUCATION

  • 2012 - 2017
    Bordeaux Montaigne University, Bordeaux, France
    Phd in Art ( Practice, Theory, History)
  • 2009 - 2011
    Bordeaux Montaigne University, Bordeaux, France
    Master of Fine Art in Arts Plastiques/Appliques
  • 2004 - 2008
    Lebanese Fine Art Institute, Beirut, Lebanon
    BA Fine Art in Painting