Omar Khouri

Artist Profile

Omar Khouri
Interdisciplinary artist
Omar Khouri is an interdisciplinary artist working with painting, comics, and film, amongst other art forms. In 2006, he co-founded Samandal Comics, the first experimental comics collective in the Middle East credited for starting the recent comic book revolution in the Arab world. Omar is the co-writer, concept artist and robot designer, as well as an actor in the 2017 multi-award winning Lebanese Science Fiction film “The Last Days of the Man of Tomorrow” directed by Fadi “the fdz” Baki. Omar’s work has been exhibited and is held in collections around the world including Lebanon, the UK, the US, Japan, and across Europe. He currently lives and works in North Lebanon.