
Kelly Dabbah
Willow Chair 2, 2024
Vintage medieval looking metal chair reupholstered with silk satin. Made of collage (paintings, photography and digital images).
Kelly Dabbah is a Swiss visual artist based in NYC. She has studied fashion design at Parsons School of Design, and she worked in fashion houses such as Chanel and...
Kelly Dabbah is a Swiss visual artist based in NYC. She has studied fashion design at Parsons School of Design, and she worked in fashion houses such as Chanel and Anna Sui. She has learned how to create prints made of her fine art (collages, paintings and photography) that she would apply on different mediums. Her maximalist style incorporates elements of nostalgia, irony, and kitsch. Her work features a fusion of custom-made mirrors to collages, aristocratic-esque armchairs, maximalist wallpaper patterns, sculptures, bathing suits, skateboards, surfboards, etc. She started her career by creating art installations full of prints made of silk and satin where people came and where able to buy everything, from the wallpaper, to the scarves to the skateboards and the pillows. Harper’s Bazaar described her as “the rising queen of kitsch in the art world'' in a recent article. She has collaborated with various brands such as Moleskin, Bala, Gelareh Mizrahi Concept Store, ArtPark Miami, Hampton Surf Company, YellowPop Studio, SiamCircle, Cami & Jax, NTWRK, etc. Her work is collected by the president & CEO Giacomo Missoni and by multiple Grammy award winning artists including Anderson .Paak, Thundercat, and MixedByAli. She has been exhibiting her work for the third time during Miami Art Basel and her work has been exhibited on a billboard in Time Square, on a boat in Miami and on a massive 70 meters long LED billboard in Hong Kong. She has just created all of the art and art direction for the American Express x Marriott Bonvoy annual party event during Art Basel 2023 at the W hotel in Miami South Beach celebrating Chef Kwame Onwuachi and the opening of his new restaurant Tatiana in the Lincoln Center in NYC. Her last billboard was featured in Seoul in September during the Frieze Art Fair and in old Radio Cinema downtown Cairo during the Art Festival organized by Art d'Egypte. As Forbes recently said, "Kelly is having quite the career up to this point, and she is just getting started''.