Contemporary expressionist artist Maha Hamade captures the poetry in ordinary life, transforming everyday environments into emotional landscapes.
Born and raised in Beirut, the artist draws on her homeland’s beauty, chaos, and many contradictions to explore universal themes such as memory, imagination, and existential angst.

Between abstraction and storytelling, Hamade’s work depicts familiar yet dreamlike scenes that are colorful, rhythmic, and emotionally resonant. With a bold, saturated oil palette and a balance of geometric and organic forms, she embraces playful juxtapositions and surreal logic, inviting the viewer to slow down and wander through scenes where visual reality gives way to emotional truth.

With a background in public policy and international affairs, Hamade brings a layered sensitivity to her work, one shaped by a lived understanding of instability, belonging, and the fragile structures that hold people and places together.

Her debut exhibition was a collective show at Rebirth Beirut in December 2024. Her work has since been shown in Madrid and Monaco.