Christine Safa

Christine Safa (b. 1994, Chesnay, France) is a French-Lebanese painter who lives and works in Paris. She graduated from the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2018. Her parents immigrated to France from Lebanon during the Gulf War, and she travels frequently between Paris and Beirut, which is central to her practice.

Her paintings — produced in oil on canvas, with pigments mixed with linseed oil and marble powder — depict the Mediterranean light of Lebanon and the south of France. Working at small to medium scale, she depicts landscapes, horizons, and human figures whose forms tend to merge: shoulders become mountain profiles, the body blends with the sky. She describes her paintings as tributes and fragments of memory — residues of the stories transmitted by her parents about Lebanon, filtered through her own experience of the country. The work of Etel Adnan, who presented an exhibition alongside Safa's paintings at Lévy Gorvy Gallery in Paris in 2021, has been a sustained point of reference.

She is represented by Galerie Lelong & Co in Paris and New York.