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Featured Artists.

Tamim Sibai

Tamim Sibai (b. 1991, Damascus, Syria) is a Berlin-based painter known for his vivid,expressive abstract portraits that explore identity, psychology, and human connection. Drawingfrom everyday encounters and personal interactions, Sibai creates layered character studiesthat blur the line between subject and self, merging observation with introspection. His worksoscillate between dreamlike states and reality, capturing a quiet emotional intensity…

Rana Abu Saada

Rana Abou Saada (b. 2000) is a Syrian visual artist born in Suwaida, Syria. She received her B.A. in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Damascus University in 2022, where she specialised in Drawing and Painting. Abou Saada currently lives and works in the United Arab Emirates.Abou Saada’s practice centers on the human figure, often approached as a symbolic and evolving form rather than a fixed representation. Through drawing and…

Dzovig Arnelian

Dzovig Arnelian

Dzovig Arnelian (b. 1996) is a Beirut-based Lebanese-Armenian artist whose works address themes related to gender roles, feminism, and the criticism of patriarchy. Her practice is mainly focused on painting and exploring her body as her paint brush, etching, engraving, and photography. Her depiction of deeply personal subjects is bold yet sensitive, offering a view of her world in an intimate, subtle and vulnerable manner. Arnelian’s…

Featured Artworks.

The Ladies Are Waiting I

The Ladies Are Waiting I

Dzovig Arnelian

The Red Room

Dzovig Arnelian

Bathroom Mirror

Bathroom Mirror

Untitled

Untitled

Untitled

Untitled

Untitled

The Lebanese Mona Lisa

The Lebanese Mona Lisa

Dzovig Arnelian

A Sketchy Sensation

A Sketchy Sensation

Dzovig Arnelian

Journal.

Stories, exhibitions, interviews, and notes from SUR’s artists and community.

SUR's soft launch: making art a social experience

To create is to tell the truth. Whether it lands on a canvas as a political wound or a private memory, the act of making art is among the most personal things a human being can do. But from that momen... Read full Journal.

Apr 18, 2026

Rabee Kiwan's "Passport Photos": a piercing critique of constructed identities

Mar 7, 2026

Samara Sallam’s “A Speaking Puddle of Blood”: Deciphering the language permeating the real, mythical and visceral

Sep 25, 2025