Born in Kuwait in 1977, Tamara Al-Samerraei is a painter who lives and works in Beirut.
She received a BA in Fine Arts from the Lebanese American University in Beirut in 2002 and completed the inaugural year of the Home Workspace Program at Ashkal Alwan (2011-2012), Beirut.
Her solo exhibitions include Sounding The Interior, Kunsthaus Baselland (2026); Marfa' 10, Marfa', Beirut (2025); Statements Art Basel with Marfa’, Basel (2024), Promise You Made, Marfa’, Beirut (2023); Outland, Le Centre Intermondes, La Rochelle (2022); What Floats in Space, Marfa’ Projects, Beirut (2019); Let Me Stay a Little Longer, Marfa’ Projects, Beirut (2015-2016); Make Room for Me, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo (2014); Fleeting Fences (2011) and Something White (2008), Agial Art Gallery, Beirut.
She has participated in several group and duo exhibitions including Leviathan, Ames Yavuz, Sydney (2026) Art Basel Paris with Marfa’, Paris (2025), Intimate Garden Scene, Sursock Museum, Beirut (2024) ‘ Fondu Ré-Enchaîné, L’Atlas Galerie des Mondes, Paris (2022); Water, Marfa’, Beirut (2021) ; Hospitalités-FIAC, InSitu Fabienne Leclerc, Paris (2020); Heavenly Beings:Neiter Human Nor Animal, Museum of Contemporary Art Metelkova, +MSUM,Ljubljan(2018); The Clocks are Striking Thirteen, 21,39; Jeddah; Home Beirut: Sounding the Neighbours, MAXXI museum, Rome (2017); Tamawuj-Sharjah Biennial13, Sharjah (2017); Play The Possum, Gypsum Gallery, Cairo (2016); Complicity, Sultan Gallery, Kuwait (2016); On Water, Rosemary and Mercury in Homeworks 7, Beirut (2015); 25 Ans De Creativite Arabe, Institut Du Monde Arabe, Paris (2012); All About Beirut, White Box, Munich (2010); Exposure, Beirut Art Center, Beirut; Radius of Art project, Fladernbunker, Kiel (2008) and ShoeBox, Dar Al Funoon, Kuwait (2007).