Maher Kouraytem

Maher Kouraytem is born in Beirut. He is currently working and living in Montreal.

Maher’s Canvases are distinguished by a raw and stylized representation of his human subjects. With an intensive approach, the artist’s compositions revolve around the nude and portraits of women. Through his persistence on depicting the nudes as the solitary subject for most his works, the artist drives the viewer into giving them different connotations each time; as if these nudes relate to our existence as naked individuals in a giant social collective, each searching for our own comfort zone in the noise and confusion of it all. Maher had two solo exhibitions in Beirut and participated in many collective exhibitions in Montreal, UAE, Kuwait, Istanbul, Egypt and Cyprus...