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Helen Zughaib

Helen Zughaib was born in Beirut, Lebanon, living mostly in the Middle East and Europe before coming to the United States to study art at Syracuse University, earning her BFA from the College of Visual and Performing Arts.

Helen currently lives and works in Washington, DC, as an artist. She paints primarily in gouache and ink on board and canvas. More recently, she has worked with wood, shoes, and cloth in mixed media installations.

Her work has been widely exhibited in galleries and museums in the United States, Europe, and Lebanon. Her paintings are included in many private and public collections, including the White House, World Bank, Library of Congress, US Consulate General, Vancouver, American Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, the Arab American National Museum in Detroit, the Barjeel Collection in Sharjah, the Minneapolis Institute of Art and the DC Art Bank Collection. Her work has been included in Art in Embassy State Department exhibitions abroad, including Brunei, Nicaragua, Mauritius, Iraq, Belgium, Lebanon, Sweden, Abu Dhabi, Nigeria and Saudi Arabia. Helen has served as Cultural Envoy to Palestine, Switzerland, Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi. The John F. Kennedy Center/REACH has selected Helen as a member of the 2021-24 Inaugural Social Practice Residency. Her paintings have been gifted to heads of state by President Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. She is the recipient of the Senior Fellowship at Abraham Path Initiative, 2024-25.