SIMONE FATTAL (*1942, Damascus) was born in Syria and raised in Lebanon. She studied philosophy at the cole des Lettres in Beirut and at the Sorbonne in Paris, before returning to Beirut and starting to paint in 1969. Fleeing the Civil War in 1980, she settled in California. Fattal currently lives in Paris, and she has had recent exhibitions at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, Bergen Konsthall, MoMA PS1, New York and the Muse Yves Saint Laurent, Marrakech.