A Journey of Exhibitions

Dédé Hourani has made her exhibitions into milestones along an itinerary where art becomes both passport and universal language. Her adventure begins in the heart of Beirut, within official salons and museums, where her canvases mingle with the voices of a vibrant capital. At the Spring Salon of the Ministry of Fine Arts, then at the Grenier des Artistes, her works stood as testimonies to a nation’s creative effervescence. At Dar El Fan, they revealed the secret movement of painting, before joining the prestigious Autumn Salon of the Sursock Museum, a temple of Lebanese modernity.

Her colors soon crossed borders. In Houston, her creations found new breath at the Dubose Gallery and the Houston Center, where they engaged in dialogue with a cosmopolitan audience. Her own Dédé Hourani Gallery became, for many years, an artistic beacon, welcoming encounters and wonder. In Washington, her works were displayed at the Washington Art Center, while in Europe they rose into the light of the Lawrence Gallery in London and the majestic Grand Palais in Paris.

Returning to Lebanon, she invested places steeped in memory and culture: the Ministry of Tourism, Planula Elissar, the Jeftt Library of the American University of Beirut, and the Smugglers Inn, where art intertwined with daily life. Her canvases were also showcased at the Goethe Institute, the Castle of Beiteddine, and in events dedicated to Lebanese heritage, inscribing her work within the continuity of collective memory.

Thus, each exhibition by Dédé Hourani appears as a stage in both an inner and outer journey: a path where painting becomes breath, where places transform into scenes, and where the artist, through her colors, connects Beirut, Houston, London, and Paris into a single constellation of beauty.