Description
Born in Lebanon in 1965, Jaber Lutfi lives and works in Montreal.
Trained first at Francine Labelle’s studio, then at the Université du Québec à Montréal (1990), he has presented some thirty solo exhibitions, notably at Galerie Palardy (Montreal) and Galerie St-Laurent + Hill (Ottawa), and in the Maisons de la culture de la Ville de Montréal. Alongside these gallery appearances, he produces his own exhibitions. He has participated in numerous collective art events, including Papier (2012, represented by galerie St-Laurent + Hill), Montréal souterrain (2008 and 2009 during Nuit Blanche), the Foire d’art contemporain à Strasbourg St-Art (2008, represented by galerie sas), Collectionner l’art (2008, organized by agac) and the Baie-St-Paul International Symposium of Young Painters in Canada (1987). More recently, he has exhibited his work at street fairs in Montreal, Toronto, Chicago and Columbus (Ohio). In 1996, the Omnibus theater company used his work to create a mime show, Choses vues à la halte, at Espace Libre (Montreal). With the same company, under the patronage of François Barbeau, he designed the costumes and props for Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus. His work can be found in several public and private collections, including the Musée du Québec art loan collection and that of Cirque du Soleil.