Simone Fattal

Simone Fattal (Arabic: سيمون فتال ; born 1942) is a Syrian-American artist.

She was born in Damascus in 1942 and was educated in Beirut and Paris, studying philosophy at the Sorbonne. She returned to Beirut in 1969, where she began a career as a painter.[1] She began working in clay at The Art Institute of California, later working in Grasse with ceramic artist Hans Spinner.[2]

She lived with poet and artist Etel Adnan, until Adnan's death in November 2021. The couple left Lebanon for Sausalito, California in 1980. There Fattal established a publishing house Post-Apollo Press. She returned to the visual arts in 1988, producing sculpture, watercolors, paintings and collage.[1] She later moved to Paris.[3]

In 2017, she was nominated for a AWARE prize for women artists.[2]

In 2019, a retrospective of her work "Works and Days" was presented at the Museum of Modern Art's MoMA PS1.[1] Her work has also been exhibited at the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakesh, at the Rochechouart Museum of Contemporary Art and at the Sharjah Art Foundation.[3]

In April 2021, Fattal assisted an exhibition with Serhan Ada at the Pera Museum in Istanbul of Etel Adnan's work.[4]

'Finding a Way', commissioned by the Whitechapel Gallery, was on view in London between 21 Sep 2021 – 15 May 2022.[5]