Bettina Badr

Bettina Khoury Badr’s work confronts the abstract with the representational, the gestural with the still. Using traditional methods and techniques with a modern aesthetic, she produces ideological and experiential art. 

Her work draws inspiration from her birthplace of Lebanon, and the especially the recent fragmented past. She delves into memory and experience and depicts fragments of reality: “I am constantly looking within, trying to solve riddles,” she says. “I don’t have answers or questions; I just follow the form to find out where it leads me.” In 2001, she received her Diplôme d’Études Supérieures in Fine Arts and a master’s degree in Fine Arts in 2012 from the Lebanese University. The intervening years were spent teaching and developing her artistic vision. She held solo exhibits at Kromatik Art Gallery in 2012 and Art on 56th gallery in 2018. Badr’s work was featured in 2015 in “Mark on the Wall” in conjunction with the Virginia Woolf conference at Bloomsburg University, and in the “Salon d’Automne” Sursock Museum in 2012, 2016, 2018 

She most recently exhibited in “Togetherness” at Gallery Tanit in addition to “How Will It End?” presented by the Boghossian Foundation, and the Centre Pompidou. Since 2007, she has been teaching at the Lebanese American University in Beirut.