Ibrahim Jalal is born in Syria on the 8th of December 1947 in a house filled with colourfull patchworks and tapestries, the work of a father who worked as a weaver.
In 1969 he began studying drawing and painting techniques, the practice of drawing after the living model at the Damas University of The Arts. He graduates with honours in 1973, leaves Syria and joins Paris the same year.
In 1974 he is a registered student of the National Superior School of Fine Arts in Paris, in the Gustave Singier’s atelier (Gustave Singier is a painter belonging to the abstract current of the “School of Paris” group of painters). Under his patronage, Ibrahim Jalal graduates with honours, being appraised for his abstract paintings, inspired by the colours, the spirit and shapes of the Syrian craft.
Since then, he lives and works in the Paris area.
Ibrahim Jalal’s Exhibitions :
2017- Galleri Athene, Drammen, Norway
2017- Swiss art gallery space in Lauzane
2017-music school of Saint Laurent de Grandvaux, Jura
2016 -Peniche Atys Open House2015- Gallery Amare, Stavanger, Norway
2014- City Center Gallery, Takamatsu, Japan,
2014- Group exhibition, National Museum Pekin, China
2013- Gallery Athene ,Drammen,Norway
2012&2013- Péniche Atys, on the Marne river, Paris area, France
2013- Gallery 8, London, United Kingdom,
2012&13-Europia Gallery Paris, France,
Open day at the Ashley’s Studio, Ivry, France, 2013
2011-Court Yard Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates,
2011-Frida Hansen Hus, Stavanger, Norway,
2010- Exhibition at Kunstforening - the work of three months artist residency, Stavanger, Norway,
2010- Rafia Gallery, Damascus, Syria,
2009-Free Expressions Gallery, Paris, France,
2009-Centre Culturel Franco – Norwegian, Stavanger, Norway,
2008- Fine Arts Gallery Crous, Paris, France,
2008- Paris - Damascus Exhibition at the Institute of the Arab World, Paris, France,
2007&2008- Gallery Schröder Isenburg, Germany,
2005- “La Gallery”, Luxembourg,
2005Royal Hotel, Luxembourg,
2004 and 2005- Gallery Schröder Isenburg, Germany,
2002- Honor Guest of Salon Bussy St Martin, France, 2002
2001-Honor Guest at the 21st Salon d'Automne in Pontault-Combault, France,
2000-Beneteau space, Paris, France,
2000-Buridan House, private exhibition, Paris, France,
1998- Galerie Claude Leman, Paris, France,
1998-Gallery Arabesques, Heidelberg, Germany,
1997- National Conservatory of Music, Oslo, Norway,
1993- Gallery Norestraen, Sandnes, Norway,
1989- Sinden Gallery, New York, USA,
1989- Arden Gallery, Boston, USA,
1985- Markstatte, Konstanz, Germany,
1975- Fine Arts Crous Gallery,Paris, France,
1972- My first exhibition: University of Damascus, Syria
