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Helen Khal was born on 16 April, 1923 in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is an American-Lebanese painter (1923–2009). Discover Helen Khal's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 86 years old?

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Age 86 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 16 April, 1923
Birthday 16 April
Birthplace Allentown, Pennsylvania
Date of death 2009
Died Place Ajaltoun, Lebanon
Nationality United States

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1923

Helen Khal (1923 – 2009) was an American artist and critic of Lebanese descent.

Helen Khal was born in Allentown, Pennsylvania to a Lebanese American family from Tripoli, Lebanon.

She started her painting career at the age of 21; when illness forced house rest, she began to draw.

1946

On a visit to Lebanon in 1946 she met and married a young Lebanese poet, Yusuf al-Khal (they later divorced), and remained in the country to study art at ALBA from 1946 to 1948.

1960

With the encouragement of her colleagues, notably well-known Lebanese artist Aref Rayess, Khal pursued her art and she held her first individual exhibition in 1960 in Galerie Alecco Saab in Beirut.

1965

Her other one-woman shows took place at Galerie Trois Feuilles d'Or, Beirut (1965); Galerie Manoug, Beirut (1968); at the First National Bank, Allentown, Pennsylvania (1969); in Kaslik, Lebanon (1970); at the Contact Art Gallery, Beirut (1972, 1974 and 1975) and at the Bolivar Gallery in Kingston, Jamaica in 1975.

Her work also appeared in the Biennales of Alexandria and São Paulo.

1966

"From 1966 to 1974, Helen Khal was Art Critic to two Lebanese periodicals, The Daily Star and Monday Morning. She also wrote a number of publications in the Middle East and the USA and frequently lectured on art."

A series of 22 lectures that she gave was collected and published as a book titled The Woman Artist in Lebanon.

1967

She also taught art at the American University of Beirut from 1967 to 1976 and at the Lebanese American University from 1997 to 1980.

She inspired many other artists and her "background concerning art is fully enriched by the many wonders of the world of art."

Helen Khal was also recognized as an author and critic.

1973

She returned to the United States briefly but in 1973, after moving back to Lebanon, she established Lebanon's first permanent art gallery, Gallery One.

1994

Khal's work was included in the 1994 exhibition Forces of Change at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

In 2023 her work was included in the exhibition Action, Gesture, Paint: Women Artists and Global Abstraction 1940-1970 at the Whitechapel Gallery in London.

2009

Khal died in 2009.