Born in Miami, Florida, Sara Chaar is a Lebanese visual artist whose practice spans painting, drawing, and video art. Her abstract works are characterized by textured surfaces and layered compositions that balance delicate color palettes with expressive scratches, marks, and gestures.
Working with oil paint and cold wax, Chaar builds translucent layers that she repeatedly scratches, erases, and reworks using palette knives and other tools. Through this process of construction, deconstruction, and reconstruction, her surfaces reveal traces of memory and transformation, with each layer simultaneously concealing and uncovering what came before.
Drawing inspiration from Beirut’s weathered walls and cracked facades, Chaar explores memory, change, and the shifting relationship between surface and what lies beneath. She has exhibited extensively in Lebanon, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Germany, the United States, and Canada.
Currently based in France, her work is held in private and public collections, including the collection of the Arab World Institute (IMA) in Paris.