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Asma Fayoumi (born 1943, Amman, Jordan) is a Syrian Abstract Expressionist painter. She attended Damascus University in Syria. Her work is in the collection of the Barjeel Art Foundation.

In 2011 and 2015 she had a solo shows at the Ayyam Gallery in Beirut. In 2020 through 2022 her work was included in the exhibition Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s–1980s which traveled from the Grey Art Gallery at New York University to the Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University. In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.

Fayoumi's son is the composer Zaid Jabri.

References

1. "Asma Fayoumi". AskArt. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
2. "Asma Fayoumi". Atassi Foundation. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
3. "Ritha' Madina (Requiem for a City)". Barjeel Art Foundation. 18 April 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
4. "The Person Within by Asma Fayoumi". Beirut City Guide. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
5. "'Untitled' Exhibition". Beirut City Guide. Archived from the original on 6 May 2023. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
6. "Solo show of pioneering Syrian painter Asma Fayoumi opens at Ayyam Gallery Beirut". ArtDaily. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
7. "Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World, 1950s – 1980s". Block Museum - Northwestern Universityedu. Retrieved 6 May 2023.
8. "Action, Gesture, Paint". Whitechapel Gallery. Retrieved 3 May 2023.
9. "Syrian themes at London's Royal Opera House". Financial Times. 17 July 2015. Retrieved 6 May 2023.

External links

• Exhibition catalogue for the Untitled exhibition

• 1943 births
• Living people
• People from Amman
• 20th-century women artists
• Syrian women artists
• Damascus University alumni