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Education
1987 – MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York.
1985 – BA, Montclair State University, New Jersey.

Selected One-Person Exhibitions
2025 – “Figurative Abstraction” Victor Gallery, New York, NY.
2023 – “Living the Dream” Artserve, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
2022 – “Prosperity series” NSU Cotilla Gallery, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
2021 – “American Dream” Scope Art Show, Miami, FL.
2020 – “Chaos” ArtServe, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
2019 – Art Palm Beach show Jan 17-21, Palm Beach Convention Center, West Palm Beach, FL.
2018 – Design Center of the Americas, interior designers special event exhibition, Ft Lauderdale, FL.
2017 – “Florida International Trade and Cultural Expo” Ft Lauderdale/Broward Convention Center, FL.
2018 – “Bird Eye View” Artexpo New York show, April 19-22, Pier 94, New York, NY.
2018 – “Conflict Urbanism” Art Palm Beach Fair Jan 17-21, Palm Beach Convention Center, West Palm Beach, FL.
2017 – “Disruption” Red Dot Art Fair Dec 6-10, 2017, Miami, FL.
2017 – “Spiritual Vessels” Bailey Contemporary Arts, Pompano, Ft Lauderdale, FL.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 – “Artist as Activist” Rowan University Art Museum, NJ.
2025 – “Color Vibrations” Akwaaba Gallery, Newark, NJ; “American Motifs” J Nunez gallery, Summit, NJ.
2024 – “ViewPoints 2024” curated by Sally Morgan Lehman gallery, New York, and Montclair, NJ.
2023 – Scope Art Show, three artists show, Miami, FL.
2023 – Hamptons Fine Art, three artists show, Southampton, NY.
2023 – Salon Comparaisons, Grand Palais Éphémére, February 15-19, Paris, France.
2023 – Art Palm Beach + Contemporary, Palm Beach Show, Palm Beach Convention Center, FL.
2023 – “Artful Pairing” Four Seasons gallery, January 10-15, Food & Wine Festival, FL.
             Works by Adnan Charara, Tony Khawam, and Carlos Sablon. Fort Lauderdale, FL.
2022 – “Middle Eastern Contemporaries” Scope Art Show Fair, Nov 30 – Dec 5, Miami Beach, FL.
2022 – “Crossing Borders: Artists from the Middle East & the Americas” Miami Dade College, Museum of Art + Design;
             Arts Warehouse, Delray Beach, FL.
2021 – “Crossing Borders: Artists from the Middle East & Latin America” Museum of Contemporary Art of the
             Americas (MoCCA); Scope Show, Miami, FL.
2021 – “The American Road Trip” curated by Imtiaz Hafiz of Art in Embassies, US Dept of State, Washington, DC,
             tour exhibit in the American Asian Embassies.
2021 – “Contemporary Syrian Art” United Nations Social, Humanitarian, and Cultural Committee (SOCHUM),
             HQ building gallery, New York, NY.

Grants and Awards
2023 – “Living the Dream” Cultural Grant, Florida Division of Arts & Culture, Miami-Dade, Broward cultural divisions.
2022/23 – “Creative Investment Program Award” Broward County Cultural Division, FL.
2021 – “American Rescue Cultural Grant” National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), Washington, DC.
2021 – “Individual Artist Award, Specific Cultural Project”, Florida Division of Arts & Culture.
2002 – “Artists Fellowship Award” Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation.
1998 – “Innovative Works on Paper and Printmaking” project award, Rutgers University, NJ.
1997 – “Artist in Residence, NJ Series” Geraldine Dodge Foundation.

Collections
Khawam’s work is in museums, corporate, and private collections in the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East.

Selected Bibliography/Press
– Rowan University Art Museum (Artist As Activist) by Julia Steinman, Advance Local Media.
– Washington City News “Best Visual Art Exhibits” by Laura Zee; Middle East Institute Art & Culture News 
“A movable feast of MENA pop art” by Hadani Ditmars; YUNG magazine of Middle East & Africa “Inside Arab Pop Art: – Between East & West” by Nadine Khalil (9/2025).
– Wissenschaft und Frieden (W&F) German Magazine, Don’t Lose Sight of Hope by Stephan Hebel; Hope and Resistance by Werner Wintersteiner; Developing a fantasy of peace by Heinz Klippert (05/2025).
– Canvas Rebels Stories & Insights “meet Tony Khawam,” and Vicinity Magazine NJ (2/2025).
– Miami Art Week Mag. “Living the Dream” (12/10/2023); American Art Mag. “A Contemporary Aesthetic” (02/2023).
– US Dept of State Art in Embassies “The American Road Trip” by Imtiaz Hafiz, Washington, DC (06/2022).
– Sky News Arabia, https://youtu.be/sJPnUXrmQPA – by Reda Bouchefra, New York reporter (10/2021).
– Boca Raton Magazine, BocaMag.com: https://bit.ly/2Rb7PE3 – by John Thomason (9/2020).
– Raseef 22 Magazine, Beirut Media – by Hala Ali and Enass Khansa (10/2020).
– The Hype Lifestyle Magazine “Artists amid Syria’s war-torn plight voiced in South Florida” by Jerry Doby (08/2020)
– The Brooklyn Reporter, https://bit.ly/3iC0yZo  – by John Alexander (10/2019).