Ziad Dalloul – was born in 1953 in Soueida, southern Syria, began his creative path early on in his life. At the age of sixteen, Dalloul nurtured his cultural and artistic talents, engrossing himself in art and writing, and exhibiting his first paintings and reciting his own short stories in his hometown’s cultural center.Since then, his career has flourished and he is now considered to be among the Arab world’s most accomplished printmakers and painters, and a pioneer of contemporary Syrian art, merging multiple media techniques.
In the early 1970s, Dalloul moved to Damascus and soon enrolled in the city’s Faculty of Fine Arts, graduating in 1977, where he was trained under the prominent artist Ghayyath al-Akhras, founder of the engraving department. That same year, he held his first solo exhibition in the Syrian capital, in the popular Urnina Gallery.he 1980s saw Dalloul move to pastures new: initially he moved to Algeria in 1980, where he developed the visual arts program for the Algerian Ministry of Education, and then in 1984 he moved to Paris. In Paris, he enrolled into l’École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, where he completed a DEA (advanced post-gradute degree), in Plastic Arts, graduating in the late 1980s. From this point onwards, he remained in Paris and adopted it as his new home, however, memories of Syria remained in his heart and in much of his work.
(DALLOUL ART FOUNDATION)
