Asma Fayoumi (born 1943, Amman, Jordan) is a Syrian

Abstract Expressionist Abstract expressionism is a post–World War II art movement in American painting, developed in New York City in the 1940s. It was the first specifically American movement to achieve international influence and put New York at the center of the ...

painter. She attended

Damascus University The University of Damascus ( ar, جَامِعَةُ دِمَشْقَ, ''Jāmi‘atu Dimashq'') is the largest and oldest university in Syria, located in the capital Damascus and has campuses in other Syrian cities. It was founded in 1923 through ...

in Syria. Her work is in the collection of the

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. In 2011 and 2015 she had a solo shows at the Ayyam Gallery in Beirut. In 2020 through 2022 her work was included in the exhibition ''Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s'' which traveled from the

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at New York University to the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition '' Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970'' at the

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in London. Fayoumi's son is the composer

Zaid Jabri Zaid Jabri ( ar, زيد جبري‎, Zaīd Ǧabrī) is a Syrian-Polish composer, conductor and music educator, who works at the intersection of Western and Middle Eastern musical traditions. He is one of the representatives of the so-called ...

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External links

Exhibition catalogue
for the ''Untitled'' exhibition {{DEFAULTSORT:Fayoumi, Asma 1943 births Living people People from Amman 20th-century women artists Syrian women artists