Zeina Barakeh was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon. She obtained a BA in Interior Design from the Lebanese American University, Beirut. After many years of teaching art at the American Community School at Beirut, she moved to San Francisco in August 2006 to pursue an MFA degree at the San Francisco Art Institute. She graduated from SFAI in May 2008, and currently works there as Director of Graduate Administration. Exhibitions: Upcoming: Fertile Crescent: Contemporary Women Artists from the Middle Eastern Diaspora, Zimmerly Art Museum, spring 2012. Third-Half Passport Collection, The Public theater, New York City, 2011. Passages, Golden Thread's ReOrient Festival, Theater Artaud, San Francisco, 2009; Proliferations, Rhodes & Fletcher, LLC/Off-Space, San Francisco, 2009; The Third-Half, Herbst Pavilion at Fort Mason, San Francisco, 2008; Internal Exile: From Palestine to the USA to Mexico, SomArts Bay Gallery, San Francisco, 2007; The Token Woman Show, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, 2007; Facets, Espace SD, Beirut, 2005; Journée Des Peintres, Estivales de Deir el-Qamar, Chouf, Lebanon, 2005 and 2004; Illusion Gallery, Kuwait, 2004. |