Artist Talk: Samia Halaby

Renowned abstract painter and IU alumna Samia Halaby discusses the development of her practice during her time in Bloomington, as well as her computer art and its relationship to her painting.
Samia A. Halaby is a Palestinian artist and scholar who lives and works in New York. Born in Jerusalem in 1936 during the British Mandate, today she is recognized as one of the Arab world’s leading contemporary painters. Halaby received her bachelor of science in Design from the University of Cincinnati and graduated from Indiana University with a masters in fine art in 1963. She went on to teach art at the university level for seventeen years, a decade of which was spent as an associate professor at the Yale School of Art, where she was the first woman to hold the position of associate professor. She also taught at the University of Hawaii, Michigan State University, the Kansas City Art Institute, and Indiana University. Since beginning her artistic career in the early 1960s, she has exhibited in galleries, museums, and art fairs throughout the US, Europe, Asia, and South America. Her work is housed in private and public collections around the world.

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I find your decision to cancel Samia Halaby's retrospective shameful. That decision needs to be reversed.