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Simone Fattal (born 1942) is a Lebanese-American artist.
She was born in Damascus and was educated in Beirut and Paris, studying philosophy at the Sorbonne. She returned to Beirut in 1969, where she began a career as a painter. She began working in clay at The Art Institute of California, later working in Grasse with ceramic artist Hans Spinner.
She lives with poet and artist Etel Adnan. The couple left Lebanon for California in 1980. There Fattal established a publishing house Post-Apollo Press. She returned to the visual arts in 1988, producing sculpture, watercolors, paintings and collage. She later moved to Paris.
In 2017, she was nominated for a AWARE prize for women artists.
In 2019, a retrospective of her work "Works and Days" was presented at the Museum of Modern Art's MoMA PS1. Her work has also been exhibited at the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakesh, at the Rochechouart Museum of Contemporary Art and at the Sharjah Art Foundation.