Saloua Raouda Choucair (born 1916, Beirut, Lebanon; died 2017, Beirut, Lebanon) experimented with a wide range of materials and became known for her sculptures composed of several individual pieces that could be either separated or assembled, like the verses of an Arabic poem. Raouda Choucair remained largely unknown outside of a small circle until her exhibition Saloua Raouda Choucair: The Retrospective at the Beirut Exhibition Center (2011). In 2013, an exhibition at Tate Modern, London, earned her international public and critical praise. Her works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; Guggenheim Abu Dhabi; Sharjah Art Foundation; and Mathaf: Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha, among others. In 2014, Choucair was awarded an honorary degree of doctor of humane letters by the American University of Beirut.
