Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui

Mouna Bassili Sehnaoui is a Lebanese artist whose work is influenced by a Middle Eastern cultural heritage, with a style reflecting the flat treatment of colors found in Byzantine icons and Persian miniatures. Her works often reference her own surroundings, her country, and its cultural heritage, with a personal interpretation of space where shapes and lines interpenetrate in colorful harmonies. She works in various formats, including painting, writing, design, sculpture, and lithography. Sehnaoui has had solo exhibitions in Paris, Dubai, and Beirut, and her work has won several prizes and is featured in several public and private collections worldwide. Additionally, she has designed the famous Lebanon logo for the Ministry of Culture in the 1960s and several posters promoting tourism in the country. Sehnaoui has also produced paintings depicting the Lebanese civil war.