Imad Fakhry

Born in 1974 in Btedaï, in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley, Imad Fakhry comes from a family of artists. He studied at the Académie Libanais des Beaux-Arts at ALBA, and received his Master's Degree from the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Cergy-Paris and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Under the tutelage of French artist Yannick Guéguan, he pursued several courses and workshops in decorative painting and trompe l'oeil.

Imad Fakhry participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Lebanon and abroad, including in Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. In 2000, he was awarded the ABN AMRO Bank Prize, and in 2007, he was nominated for the Young Creative Awards at the Unesco in Beirut. In 2008, he represented Lebanon with his etchings and engravings at the Triennial of Rhodes, and in 2016, he won the Dr. Chaouki Chamoun prize. Since 2003, the artist teaches drawing, sketching, etching and trompe-l'oeil at ALBA.