About Marie
Who's Marie Khoury
The painter Marie Khoury was born on December 15, 1965 in the village of Al Bireh in Chouf.
In 1983, during the sad events of the Lebanese civil war and the battles in the mountains, Marie was seriously injured; she was treated but didn't get great results. She was then turned quadriplegic, suffering from paralysis of the four limbs. Her dreams of specializing in engineering have gone for ever. Now she has to go everywhere in a wheelchair and must turn a new page by treating her destiny with positivity and perseverance in a struggle at all times.
She went through a long period of care, suffering, and pain, at the same time she cultivated the passion of her life: the field of art, drawing and painting in order to give shape and color to her dreams destroyed by this sad war.
In 1985, she started in the field of Indian ink painting for a year and a half with Professor Tony Khadra. She then perfected her talent by joining the Academy of Fine Arts of Michelangelo in 1989 with Assaad Renno and obtained her diploma in 1992.
She has participated in several local and international exhibitions, including:
A permanent exhibition at the Beit Chabab Institute where the artist lives.
The summer exhibition at Deir El Qamar, in which her paintings are exhibited and that for ten years.
2006 - Private personal exhibition at the Metropolitan Palace Hotel.
2011 - Exhibition "Madness" at the UNESCO Palace in Beirut - Lebanon.
2013 - Exhibition at the Exodus gallery, entitled "La plume dans la main de Marie Khoury".
2015 - UNESCO Palace - Beirut - January.
2016 - Marie Khoury has participated in international exhibitions, including the "The Other Face" exhibition in the United States of America, and in exhibitions in Turkey, Colombia, and France.
2016 - Exhibition organized by the Lebanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs to mark the memory of the Lebanese who died in the Titanic accident.
2018 - Ishtar's sixth international exhibition at Coral Beach in Hamra.
2018 - International art exhibition - Nostalgia - International art fair - Municipality of the village Boxota.
Aley's art gallery, in which she participated for 6 years, and includes artists from all Arab countries.
Marie Khoury relies on the techniques of drawing armrests and provides no way to challenge her handicap. Painting is the constant struggle of her life.
Her watercolors and oil paintings are inspired by nature and man in all its specters and the coloring of human feelings; her paintings embody the cry of freedom and resilience that beats in his veins to be reborn, like the phoenix the legendary bird of the Phoenicians.