Always A Searcher Always A Fighter - Softcover

Fahrelnissa Zeid (b. 1901, Istanbul, d. 1991, Amman) graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Istanbul, and attended to Académie Ranson, Atelier Bissière in Paris in 1924. She participated in more than fifty exhibitions and biennials in Europe, USA, and the Middle East. Her paintings are in many museums and collections in Paris, New York, Cincinnati, Edinburgh, and Pittsburgh, as well as Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture, Istanbul Modern, Ankara Anatolian Civilizations Museum, Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art. Some of the artist's solo and group exhibitions are as follows: Fahrelnissa Zeid, Istanbul Modern; Tate Modern, London; Deutsche Bank Kunsthalle, Berlin (2017); Colori, GAM, Turin (2017); Post War: Art Between the Pacific and the Atlantic 1945-65, Haus der Kunst, Munich (2016); The Past, the Present, the Possible, 12th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (2015); Salt Water, 14. Istanbul Biennial (2015); Istanbul Modern - Bahrain, Bahrain National Museum (2013); Forever Now: Five Anecdotes from the Permanent Collection, Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha (2012); New Works New Horizons, Istanbul Modern (2009); Istanbul Next Wave, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (2009); Retrospective - Fahrelnissa and Nejad: Two Generations of the Rainbow, Istanbul Modern (2006); The Centenary of Fahrelnissa Zeid, Darat al Funun, Amman (2001); Turkish Republic Central Bank Art Gallery, Ankara (2001); Three in One: Fahrelnissa-Aliye-Füreya, Yapikredi Kazim Taskent Art Gallery, Istanbul (2001); Arab Women Artists, Boston, Atlanta, Miami; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. (1994); Retrospective, Royal Cultural Center, Amman (1983); Galerie Aujord’hui, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels (1956); Recent Paintings by Fahrelnissa Zeid, Institute of Contemporary Art, London (1954); Salon des Réalités Nouvelles, Paris (1948); Individual Exhibition, Ralli Apartmani, Istanbul (1945); 11th “d Group” Exhibition, Istanbul (1944).