Sara Chaar (b. Miami, FL) is a Lebanese visual artist whose practice spans drawing, painting, and video art. Her abstract compositions are highly textured and emotionally charged, balancing soft color palettes with vigorous scratches and scraped surfaces.
Working with translucent layers of cold wax and oil paint, Chaar builds and erases surfaces using screwdrivers, cutters, and palette knives. Her canvases evoke the nature of palimpsests, where layers conceal and reveal fragments of narrative, creating a visual language shaped by traces of intervention and memory. Through this process, she explores themes of transformation, reconstruction, and the evolution of cities, much like her hometown Beirut.
Chaar has participated in several solo and collective exhibitions in Lebanon, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, the United States, and Canada. She currently lives and works in France, and her work is included in numerous private and public collections, including the Arab World Institute (IMA) in Paris.