“Born in 1954, Rima Amyuni earned her French Baccalaureate in Beirut and her diploma in Visual Arts in 1978 at Byam Show School of Arts in London. She then pursued her education at the British Council in the U.K. and at Columbia University in N.Y.C.
She returned to Lebanon where she taught at the Lebanese Academy of Arts (ALBA) and two secondary schools: Louise Wegman and Jesus and Mary.
She exhibited in various group exhibitions and one woman shows in Beirut, Kuwait, London and New York. In 1995 the Sursock Museum in Beirut awarded her the first prize in painting during the XVIIIth “Salon d’Automne”.
After 10 years of living overseas in London and N.Y.C., Rima Amyuni came back home and lived in the suburbs of the city in a beautiful area called “Yarzé”; a hill with villas and gardens overlooking Beirut and the Mediterranean Sea, surrounded by a pine tree forest. “Yarzé gave me, said Rima, a lot of food for thought and feelings, and gave birth to numerous paintings and drawings”. The Mediterranean light inspires her colors which are vivid, strong and often violent. Her public calls her
“Fauve”
Rima Amyuni’s subject matters are varied, powerful and intense since she came back home. Despite the ongoing wars, she never stopped creating new and original works. Her return to Lebanon was indeed an important move forward for the artist. She never regretted this step, a major decision for the present and the future.”
Education
1974-1978 Byam Show School of Art, Fine Arts, London, UK
1980 British Council “Art in Education, London, UK
1981-1984 Columbia University, B.A. Visual Arts, NY, USA
Awards
1976-1978: Scholarship ”London Week End Television”, London, UK
1978: ”Graham Hamilton Drawings” Price, London, UK
1995: Sursock Museum’s Award
Personal Exhibitions
1980: Gallery Epreuve d’Artiste, Beirut, Lebanon
1981: Roche-Bobois, Kuwait
1981: Hunting and Equestrian Club, Kuwait
1984: ”Final Theses Show”, Columbia University, NY, USA
1986: Gallery Epreuve d’Artiste, Beirut, Lebanon
1988: Gallery Epreuve d’Artiste, Beirut, Lebanon
1988: Rizk Plaza, Broumana, Lebanon
1990: Gallery 50×70, Beirut, Lebanon
1992: Gallery Platform, Beirut, Lebanon
1995: Gallery Epreuve d’Artiste, Beirut, Lebanon
1998: Gallery Epreuve d’Artiste, Beirut, Lebanon
2007: Gallery Alice Mogabgab, Beirut, Lebanon
2009: Gallery Alice Mogabgab, Beirut, Lebanon
2011: Gallery Alice Mogabgab, Beirut, Lebanon
2015 Agial “Tribute to a House Fairy”
2017 Agial “Paradis Fleuris”
Group Exhibitions
1982 International House, NY, USA
1983 International House, NY, USA
1984 International House, NY, USA
1988 XIVe Salon d’Automne, Musée Nicolas Sursock, Beirut, Lebanon
1989 Kufa Gallery, London, UK
1990 Kufa Gallery, London, UK
1991 XVe Salon d’Automne, Musée Nicolas Sursock, Beirut, Lebanon
1992 Lebanese American University, Sheikh Zayed Hall, Beirut, Lebanon
1993 Alumni Association, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon
1994 Kufa Gallery, London, UK
1995 XVIIIe Salon d’Automne, Musée Nicolas Sursock, Beirut, Lebanon
Sociétaire du XIXe Salon d’Automne, Musée Nicolas Sursock
1996 XXe Salon d’Automne, Musée Nicolas Sursock, Beirut, Lebanon
1997 XXIe Salon d’Automne, Musée Nicolas Sursock, Beirut, Lebanon
1998 XXIIe Salon d’Automne, Musée Nicolas Sursock, Beirut, Lebanon
2000 XXIIIe Salon d’Automne, Musée Nicolas Sursock, Beirut, Lebanon
2003 Women by Women, The Institute for Women’s Studies in the
Arab World – LAU, Beirut, Lebanon
2004 Lebanon the Artist’s View II, 1975-2004, The British Lebanese Association. Cork Galleries, Mayfair, London, UK
2005 XXVIe Salon d’Automne, Musée Nicolas Sursock, Beirut, Lebanon
2006 XXVIIe Salon d’Automne, Musée Nicolas Sursock, Beirut, Lebanon
2007 Gallery Janine Rebeiz, Beirut, Lebanon
Gallery Alice Mogabgab, Petits formats, Beirut, Lebanon
2008 XXVIIIe Salon d’Automne, Musée Nicolas Sursock, Beirut, Lebanon
2009 Gallery Alice Mogabgab, Petits formats, Beirut, Lebanon
2009 Gallery Maqam, “Landscapes and Cityscapes.1”, Beirut, Lebanon
2009 Gallery Maqam, “The Responsive Hand”, Beirut, Lebanon
2010 Gallery Alice Mogabgab, “Virtuellement Réel”, Beirut, Lebanon
2010 Gallery Alice Mogabgab, “Un peu, beaucoup, passionément”
2010 Gallery Maqam, “The beat is on, Music.1”
2010 Gallery Alice Mogabgab
“Petits Formats pour Grands Collectionneurs”
2011 Gallery Alice Mogabgab
“Petits Formats pour Grands Collectionneurs”
2011 Sourat, works on paper
2012 Group Exhibition: Agial Gallery
2012 Notre Dame de Jamhour: “Nus”
2012 Agial Gallery: “Trees”
2012 Agial Gallery, Abu Dhabi
2013 Christies Dubai
2014 Christies Dubai
2014 Notre Dame de Jamhour, “Mediterranée”
2016 ABC “Men Like Women Artists”
