Biography
Amale Freiha Khlat is an award-winning Lebanese/British artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans installation, sculpture, print, video, and sound. Her work interrogates the everyday banality of war’s spectacle—the way conflict is mediated, aestheticised, and absorbed into daily life. By framing violence through screens, stages, and surfaces, she exposes how seeing becomes a political act, shaped by proximity, distance, and the ethics of attention. Her installations unfold as theatres of witnessing, where viewers navigate between visibility and erasure, complicity and reflection.
Amale’s Blueprint of the Skies cyanotype series were selected for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 2024 and 2025. In 2020 the British Museum acquired The Perilous Journey III, a collection of prints, for its Contemporary and Modern Middle Eastern Collection. She also received the Gilbert Bayes Award in 2018 from the Royal Society of Sculptors.
Amale holds MAs from the Royal College of Art, London and Penninghen, Paris and a Sculpture Diploma from the Heatherley Art School, London.
Selected Exhibitions
2025
The Archive of Silence and The Celestial Weave, with the group exhibition The Doorway Effect, The Handbag Factory Gallery, London, UK.
Under the theme “Dialogues”: Blueprint of the Skies, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK.
2024
Under the theme “Reality Check”: Forest Reconstruction Following Harmonic Proportions, Royal Society of Sculptors Summer Show, London, UK.
Under the theme “Making Space”: Blueprint of the Skies, Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK.
On the Edge 2 with The Sequence of Five chords with their intervals, Ovada Gallery, Oxford, UK.
The Radical Residency VIII, Unit One Gallery, London, UK.
2023
Chemistry of the Blueprint, The Handbag Factory Gallery, London, UK.
2022
Chapter One, 404: Resistance in the Digital Age + Chapter Two, 404: Surveillance is Surveying, RAGE Collective, University of Bologna’s DAMSlab as part of Arte Fiera, Italy.
The Measure of All Things, Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London, UK.
Assemble, VO Curations, London, UK.
2021
Reflections: contemporary art of the Middle East and North Africa, British Museum, London, UK.
2020
The Lute on the Silk Road, Baghdad, 786 to 809, Hangzhou Art Book Fair, China.
Light and Dark Cloudy Shadows, Gilbert Bayes Award, The Royal Society of Sculptors, London, UK.
2019
The Proscinium, Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer, Buckinghamshire. Spotlight Award, The Royal Society of Sculptors, London, UK.
404: Resistance in the Digital Age, RAGE Collective, Centre of Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, UK.
2018
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair, London, UK.
RCA Secret, London,UK.
Surface DEEP, Robert Burt Gallery, London, UK.
Blue Horses, The London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK.
SHOW 18, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
Hold your horses, hold them and never let them go, CGP Gallery, London, UK.
2017
So Many Things Happened Today 2, Kingsgate Project Space, Millimetre 02, London, UK.
RCA Secret, London, UK.
Bapor Tabo(o), RAGE Collective, Art Licks Weekend, London, UK.
Network, RAGE Collective, Movement Gallery, Worcester, UK.
Odious Smell of Truth, RAGE Collective, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
Freshly squeezed, CGP Gallery, London, UK.
Work in Progress Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
2011
Through the Eyes of a Child, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.
2004
Lebanon: the artist’s view II, Cork street gallery, London, UK.
2003
See life differently, The Life Center, Holland Park underground station, London, UK.
1996
Être, Galerie Rochane, Beirut, Lebanon.
1995
Hommage to Nicholas Poussin’s 400 years and His Four Seasons, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
Artist talks
2025
Artist talks, The Handbag Factory, London, UK.
2022
Lecture, University of Bologna, Italy.
2020
Art in the Digital Reproduction Symposium, Paris College of Art, France.
2019
Lecture, CFCCA, Manchester, UK.
2018
Lecture, BA Drawing class, Camberwell College of Art, London, UK.
Awards, residencies
2024
The Radical Residency VIII, at Unit One Gallery, London.
2019
Spotlight Award, collaboration between the Royal Society of Sculptors and the Brooke Benington Gallery, Contemporary Sculpture Fulmer Gallery, Buckinghamshire.
2018
Gilbert Bayes Award, the Royal Society of Sculptors, London.
Highly Commended Award for the Arts and Humanities Dissertation, the Royal College of Art, London.
2011
Arte Laguna Prize, Nappe Arsenal, Venice.
1995
LVMH Young Artists’ Award, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris.
Private Collection
British Museum, London, UK.
Royal College of Art, London, UK.
Education
Amale currently lives and works in London.
2018 MA (distinction) from the Royal College of Art, School of Arts & Humanities, Print , London, UK.
2010 Sculpture Diploma from the Heatherley Art School in London, UK.
1995 BA - MA (high honors) from Penninghen, l’École Superieure d’Arts Graphiques, Paris, France.