Bio
Julia Hashem is a Lebanese artist who is currently based in London. She received her BA in Studio Art from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon and is currently doing her MA in Fine Art at the Chelsea College, University of the Arts London. She has taken part in a range of exhibitions across Lebanon, London, Paris, Slovenia and Bahrain. Her solo exhibition ‘Through Your Window’ took place at Kalim Bechara Art gallery in March 2024 in Beirut, Lebanon.
Artist Statement
Julia Hashem works predominantly in painting that is often informed by photography. Her subject is rooted in her Lebanese identity through architectural and urban references within her paintings, but also a sense of light and space particular to her own experiences from cities in which she has lived.
Her work is concerned with the temporality of buildings and the relationships that they both allow and deny between us as humans. Her work also questions what it means to paint from a photograph, to take a photograph with the intention of painting it, and the choice that is made with what is carried from the photograph into the painting. Through these elements, she contemplates her national identity and the familiar spaces that surround her in both her domestic and external environment in Lebanon, especially under the current and recent conditions occurring.
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Solo Exhibitions
2024 Through Your Window, Kalim Art Space, Lebanon
2022 Painting Signs, Gallery 405, AUB Lebanon
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 MENART, Kalim Bechara Art Gallery, Paris
2024 Weatherby’s Bank, London
2024 Silent Observer, Cookhouse Gallery, London
2024 Everything Must Go (UAL X RCA), Cookhouse Gallery, London
2024 International Festival, AVA Academy of Art X Chelsea college, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2023 Dis/Placed, Cookhouse Gallery, London
2023 The Little Show, Cookhouse Gallery, London
2023 Departure Lounge, ALG17, UAL, London
2023 The City and I, Sursock Palace, Lebanon
2022 Interlude, Rose and Saleeby Shaheen Museum, AUB Lebanon
2022 Mind Matter, Gallery 405, AUB Lebanon
2017 Street art exhibition for Syrian refugees, Bahrain
2016 Sovereign Art Foundation, Bahrain