Sara Shamma

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Sara Shamma

Born	November 26, 1975 Damascus, Syria
Nationality	Syrian
Field	Painting
Training	Adham Ismail Fine Arts Institute, Damascus, Syria.

Sara Shamma (Born November 26, 1975. Damascus, Syria) is a Syrian artist and painter.

Shamma began painting in 1979 at the age of four. From 1982 to 1985 she took drawing courses for children at the Adham Ismaiil Fine Arts Institute.

She went on to study at the Faculty of Fine Arts at Damascus University and graduated in 1998, and went on to teach at the Adham Ismaiil Fine Arts Institute from 1997 to 2000.

She has been a full time artist from 1994 - to date.

[edit] Awards

2004: Honoured by The presidential palace Damascus, Syria
2004: Fourth Prize at the BP portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery, London, UK
2001: First prize (the golden medal) in Lattakia biennia, Lattakia Syria
2000: Second Prize int he Spanish cultural center art competition, Damascus, syria
2000: second prize in the British council art competition, Damascus Syria
1998: second prize in the youth exhibition, organized by the fine arts syndicate , Damascus , Syria