LEBANON - Across Lebanon, often in small independent studios or ateliers, young Lebanese artists continue to create with limited resources yet sustained creative urgency.
Together, they reflect a generation producing work not only for galleries and commercial spaces, but also for digital platforms, public walls, and community-led initiatives. In doing so, they are expanding what Lebanese contemporary art looks like today—less confined by institutions and more defined by accessibility, experimentation, and lived experience.
This World Art Day, we spotlight 30 young Lebanese artists whose work is shaping the country’s evolving art scene across diverse mediums and practices.
1. Maya Fidawi
Children’s book illustrator with 40+ published titles and multiple regional and international awards, including the Etisalat Children’s Book Award. She is also a lecturer at AUB, ALBA, and USEK, mentoring emerging illustrators.
2. Mario Zaher
Beirut-based visual artist creating character-driven paintings rooted in storytelling, memory, and emotion, translating everyday Lebanese experiences into expressive visual narratives.
3. Miriam Tarabay
Founder of Studio Tuut, a Beirut design studio blending playful visuals with narrative depth, drawing on Lebanese cultural memory and women’s stories through symbolic, research-driven design.
4. Luana Tabbara
Illustrator, photographer, and assistant director working across collage and illustration. Her work reinterprets myth and power structures, including projects such as Atlas Unbound and Reimagined.
5. Tracy Chahwan
Cartoonist and illustrator who began in Beirut’s street art and comics scene with collectives like Samandal, later publishing the graphic novel Beirut Bloody Beirut (2018).
6. Katya Traboulsi
Multimedia artist addressing the Lebanese Civil War through painting and sculpture, using bold color contrasts to intensify emotionally charged historical themes.
7. Yazan Halwani
Street artist known for large-scale murals and Arabic calligraphy in Beirut’s urban landscape, transforming public walls into reflective visual landmarks.
8. Ivan Debs
Illustrator working across animation, publishing, and music, developing a flexible visual language shaped by both Lebanese and diasporic cultural contexts.
9. Nicolas Fattouh
Multidisciplinary artist working in theatre, installation, and animation between Lebanon and Canada, with over 30 international exhibitions including Bonhams in London.
10. Bassel Ramadan
Emerging photographer featured in the Through Young Eyes exhibition (2025), focusing on contemporary visual storytelling and observational imagery.
11. André Jahel
Photographer exploring narrative and documentary styles, also featured in Through Young Eyes, capturing contemporary Lebanese perspectives.
12. Cyril Harb
Beirut-based photographer experimenting with portraiture through color, motion, and editing to develop a contemporary visual language.
13. Manal Salame
Writer, poet, and photographer based in Paris exploring exile and identity; her 2026 novel Habibi Beyrouth expands her cross-disciplinary practice.
14. Serge Alhelayel
Visual artist and photographer engaged in documentary and artistic photography, contributing to collective exhibitions and visual storytelling projects.
15. Tony Maalouf
Interior architect and digital artist known for experimental online works, including “infinite zoom” compositions incorporating Lebanese cultural symbolism.
16. Batoul Yaghi
Contemporary painter known for large-scale action canvases, influenced by her experiences across Beirut, London, Miami, and Dubai.
17. Layla Dagher
Visual artist and educator with extensive solo and group exhibitions, including the Salon d’Automne in Beirut and Paris, with works in Lebanon’s Ministry of Culture collection.
18. Michèle Aoun
Photographer and filmmaker capturing Beirut through a raw, intimate lens that reflects the city’s contradictions and everyday beauty.
19. Mia
Lebanese artist with Down syndrome whose practice emphasizes expression and inclusion, contributing to broader conversations on representation in art.
20. Haya Rawi
Inclusion advocate and content creator raising awareness on disability, accessibility, and lived experience as an amputee.
21. Hanan Hazimeh
Neurodivergent multidisciplinary artist exploring identity and perception through expressive, cross-medium creative practice.
22. Dana Dandan
Illustrator known for vibrant, expressive digital works centered on character-driven contemporary visual storytelling.
23. Rami Zakharia
Illustrator and designer creating conceptual and editorial work with a strong focus on narrative and visual communication.
24. Rana Haddad
Visual artist and illustrator exploring femininity, symbolism, and surreal storytelling through layered compositions.
25. Lina Ghanem
Photographer working in documentary and portrait styles, focusing on identity, place, and everyday Lebanese life.
26. Nourann Abboud
Photographer capturing intimate, cinematic moments rooted in quotidian Lebanese environments and lived experience.
27. Firas Hammoud
Street and urban photographer documenting contemporary city life through observational and spontaneous imagery.
28. Nour Awada
Multidisciplinary artist working across installation, illustration, and experimental visual media.
29. Rayan Tawk
Contemporary artist exploring abstraction and material-based conceptual practices through evolving visual forms.
30. Ziad Antar
Visual artist and filmmaker known for conceptual photography and experimental approaches to image-making.
Whether working through illustration, photography, painting, digital experimentation, or public art, they share a common thread: an engagement with lived reality and a commitment to expanding how Lebanese stories are seen and told.
