Curriculum Vitae

Solo Exhibitions

2012 Galerie Janine Rubeiz, Beirut, Lebanon. Rima Jabbur: Portraits and Hikayat

2011 Winter Park City Hall, Winter Park, FL, Narrative Portraits

2009 Alice and William Jenkins Gallery, Crealdé School of Art, Winter Park, FL. Unstable Realities: Paintings by Rima Jabbur

2006 The University of North Florida Gallery, Jacksonville, Fl. Staging Ground: The Paintings of Rima Jabbur

2002 Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL. Introspections & Reflections: Paintings and Drawings by Rima Jabbur

2001 Spartanburg Museum, Spartanburg, SC.

1999 Sarratt Gallery, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN. Drawings and Paintings 

1997 Maitland Art Center, Maitland, FL. Recent Works

1992 Alif Gallery, Washington, D.C. Shifting Intervals

Selected Group Exhibitions

2026 Crealdé School of Art, Winter Park, FL. Crealdé at 50: Where Creativity Builds Community

2017 Snap Gallery, Orlando, Fl. Le Salon 2017

2016 Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL. Displacement: Symbols and Journeys, (Invitational)

2010 Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Fl. Florida Contemporary: Paintings, Photographs, and Sculpture, (Invitational)

2009 Musée Ingres, Montauban, France. Ingres and the Moderns. An invitational exhibit curated by Dimitri Salmon from the Louvre, and organized by Musee Ingres.

2008 Museum of Florida Art, DeLand, FL. The Painted Figure: Jabbur and Thursby

2006 Orlando City Hall, Orlando, FL. Symbiotic Relationships

2006 The Arts Center, St. Petersburg, FL, 14th All Florida Juried Exhibition (Juried by Donald Kuspit), Award of Excellence

2004 Gallery at Avalon Island, Orlando, FL. Visual Narratives

2003 Turchin Center for the Visual Arts of the Appalachian State University, Boone, NC. Go Figure! Manifestations of the Human Form in Contemporary Art

The VonLiebig Art Center, Naples, FL. Made in Florida: Figurative Works

Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL. Art at Work

2001 Fine Arts Center Galleries, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI. Figure/Disfigure

2000 Armory Art Center, West Palm Beach, FL. Reinventing Tradition- The Figure in Florida

1998 Pearl Conard Gallery, Ohio State University, Mansfield, OH. The Human Figure/Contemporary Realism

1997 Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL. The Female Figure

Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL. The Narrative Spirit

1996 Appleton Museum of Art, Ocala, FL. Selections from Chroma

Runnels Gallery, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM. Scene/Unseen

Terrace Gallery, Orlando City Hall, Orlando, FL. 1994 Individual Artists’ Recognition Awards

Holter Museum of Art, Helena, MT. ANA 25, (juried by Janet Koplos), 

Gallery Alexy, Philadelphia, PA. Contemporary Realism ‘96 (juried by Sydney Goodman)

Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL. Southeastern Juried Exhibition (juried by Donald Knaub)

Donald Gallery, University of Mobile, Mobile, AL. Art with a Southern Drawl, Awarded Juror’s Choice.

1995 Harris House of Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL. Suburban Hostage, (Invitational)

1993 Valencia Community College, Orlando, FL. Five person show: Equilibrium 

Florida State University Gallery & Museum, Tallahassee, FL. Chroma

1992 Alif Gallery, Washington, D.C. From the Other Side...

Rice Gallery, Albany Institute of History & Art, Albany, NY. Architectural Details

1990 Alif Gallery, Washington, D.C. Group Show, 1990

Artscape, Baltimore, MD. Juried by Lowery Sims, Associate Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Public and Private Collections

City Hall, Orlando, FL 

Collection of Nadine Begdache

Collection of Rifat Haffar

Collection of Randa Acad

Collection of Romano and Mariolina Salvatori

Awards and Residencies

2008 Individual Artist Fellowship Grant, State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs 

2006 United Arts Individual Professional Development Grant

2003 Residency with Norwegian painter, Odd Nerdrum 

2001 Honorable Mention, Individual Artist Grant, State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs. 

1995 Individual Artist Recognition Award in Painting, Arts Services Council, Orlando, FL.

Professional Experience

Adjunct Professor
Valencia College, Orlando FL.
School of Arts, Entertainment, and Design

Chairman to the Gallery
Alice and William Jenkins Gallery
Crealdé School of Art, Winter Park FL.

Senior Faculty Member
Crealdé School of Art, Winter Park FL.

Education