Nayla Kai Saroufim draws inspiration from a blend of media, maintaining a deep fascination with the interplay between painting, illustration, and graphic design. Her artworks, characterized by their fluidity and diversity, seamlessly merge elements of abstraction and surrealism, resulting in a vibrant fusion influenced by the spirit of pop art.
Born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1982 Saroufim graduated from Académie Lebanese des Beaux-Arts with a degree in Illustration and Art Direction. While working in the publicity field at several multinational advertising agencies, Saroufim began rekindling her interest in art. This interest was not something new. Ever since she was a child, Saroufim knew she wanted to be an artist.
Creative, a dreamer, and a lover of color and beauty, the artist’s personality is clearly portrayed in her art. A decade into her career as an artist, Saroufim’s work embodies her attraction to colors and interest in all forms of expression: especially installations. In 2013, after falling in love with metal works, she decided to focus solely on metal art. The artist’s fascination with themes of artistic tradition, contemporary popular culture, and the essence of global citizenship in a changing world is evident in her work.
Her technique is unique and personalized: a fusion of mixed media and installations in layers of steel, copper, wood, and other elements. Saroufim strives to make her positivity and love of happiness appear in her art, sparking emotion and thoughts in viewers. She hopes that by looking at her art, people will realize that there is beauty and happiness in the simplest things.
Saroufim’s work has traveled the world, including solo exhibitions in London and Beirut. Her work has been exhibited at the Beirut Art Fair, in Singapore, and at Asia Contemporary Art.
2023 LA Art
Show, Los Angeles, California, USA
Affordable
Art Fair Battersea, London, UK
Affordable
Art Fair NYC, New York
2022 Affordable
Art Fair Battersea, London, UK
Affordable Art Fair NYC, New York
2021 Affordable
Art Fair Battersea, London, UK
Design week Marbella, Marbella, Spain, Curator Galería Javier
Roman
Affordable Art Fair New York
Beirut rise from the ashes, La Biennale de Venice, Italy
Affordable Art Fair NYC, New York
Josephine Clavel Gallery, London, UK
2020 Artsfemin,
Gstaad, Switzerland
Dessine moi un Cedre, Green Cedar Lebanon
Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London, UK Artsfemin, Gstaad,
Switzerland
Art Palm Spring, California
Artspace Warehouse, Los Angeles, USA
2019 West
Village collective exhibition, Azart Gallery, New York
Jacques Oueiss Gallery, solo exhibition, Beirut, Lebanon
2019 Contemporary
Art RUHR, Germany, Galeria Gaudi Madrid
Beirut Design week, collaboration with GS storey
Affordable Art Fair Hampstead, London, VC
Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London, VC
2018 Beyond
Fashion exhibition in collaboration with Tony Ward, Beirut, Lebanon
2016 Singapore
art Fair, Sana Gallery, Singapore
2015 Asia
Contemporary Art Fair, Sana Gallery, Singapore
Sana Gallery,
Singapore
Beirut, Love, Hate, Solo Exhibition in Graffik Gallery London, UK,
Curator Vanessa Clark
2014 Beirut
Art Fair, with Urban Fusion Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2013 Cities of
Light, Solo exhibition in Piece Unique Gallery Solidere, Beirut, Lebanon
