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Lebanese artist

Nadim Karam (Arabic: نديم كرم); (born 1957) is a multidisciplinary Lebanese artist and architect^[1] who fuses his artistic output with his background in architecture to create large-scale urban art projects in different cities of the world.

He uses his vocabulary of forms in urban settings to narrate stories and evoke collective memory with a very particular whimsical, often absurdist approach; seeking to 'create moments of dreams' in different cities of the world.

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Early life and education

Nadim Karam grew up in Beirut. He received a Bachelor of Architecture from the American University of Beirut in 1982, at the height of the Lebanese civil war, and left the same year to study in Japan on a Monbusho scholarship.

At the University of Tokyo he developed an interest in Japanese philosophy of space, which he studied under Hiroshi Hara, and was also taught by Fumihiko Maki and Tadao Ando. He created several solo art performances and ex