Christine Ozeir grew up in Lebanon during the 1980s and 1990s. In 2000, she left her country for the United States, where she completed her graduate studies and worked as a lecturer and researcher in Economics. She has since lived in different cities and worked in construction, real estate, and hospitality, but she always returns to painting and to her beloved Lebanon.
Her art deals with nostalgia, loss, escapism, and what it means to come from a country of great beauty and violence.
“I have developed my technique and visual language through experimentation and repetition, moving from landscape depictions to abstraction. This process allows me to explore themes that are both personal and collective, such as our relation to the land, the past, and our psyche as Lebanese at home and in the diaspora. Colour is fundamental to my work. It elicits an immediate response, but also allows an emotion to endure and a bond to form between the viewer and the artwork”.
She currently resides in Lisbon.
KEY EXHIBITIONS
June 2026, Artists of Beirut Collective Exhibition, Season 7, Arthaus, Beirut, Lebanon
SELECTED ARTWORKS
‘L’écume des jours’, 2024
Acrylic on canvas, 100×100 cm
