Ghada Zoghbi is a Lebanese artist, born in Shmestar in 1980. At the age of 18, she moved to Beirut to enrol in art teachers’ college, and in 2010, earned a degree in Fine Art from the Lebanese University.
Her first solo show, “Regimes of the Personal” (2016), took place at Artspace Gallery, Beirut, where she presented 13 oil paintings, each telling the personal story of a random person in her local community, through images of their closets, launching her questioning of the relation between personal and common.
In 2021, Zoghbi held her second solo exhibition, “Pretty Abandoned”, at Galerie Janine Rubeiz, and was met with great critical and popular acclaim. In this series, she carried on with her exploration of the connection between human beings and their surrounding spaces.
Zoghbi has been taking part in several collective exhibitions and art fairs in Lebanon and abroad, such as London, Jordan, Qatar, Egypt, Algeria, UAE, and France. Her group exhibitions include “30 Years of Color” (2023), “Celebrating Painting” (2022), “Beirut 2020” and “October 17, 2019” (2020) at Galerie Janine Rubeiz, as well as “Beirut Year Zero” (2020) at ArtHaus Beirut.
Her third solo show “Wild Mindscapes” takes place at Galerie Janine Rubeiz, from September 4 to September 28, 2024.
Her paintings have been acquired by several private collectors, and is part of the Sursock Museum’s permanent collection. Zoghbi’s work is regularly exhibited at Galerie Janine Rubeiz, who represents her in Beirut.
Zoghbi insists on having no political or religious affiliations and refuses to adhere to borders drawn and created by power. As an art teacher for 21 years, she worked to enrich young children’s educational experience through art, including inner-city kids and refugee students in Lebanon, before devoting her time to her personal practice.
