Born in 1938 in Chabaa, Lebanon. Hussein Madi studied painting at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA) in Beirut and at the Accademia di Belle Arti and the Accademia San Giacomo in Rome, where he resided for twenty-two years. In 1987, he returned to live permanently in Lebanon. Since 1965, Madi has held more than fifty solo exhibitions in Lebanon and internationally. In themselves, the exhibitions have affirmed Madi's outstanding talents as a painter, sculptor, printmaker and designer.

"Madi selects his images with intent. He is a superb draftsman, possessing an eye acutely sensitive to the linear definition of form. When he draws the nude, his crayon or pen intimately follows each curve of the body, each languorous protrusion of limb, with an astonishing purity of expression.

Seated or reclining in quiet repose, these females are totally real and familiar to us in body, temperament and spirit. They are not figments of a naïve imagination. Stored in the memory of Madi's eye and hand is a mature understanding of the human form gleaned from countless hours spent, over years, of drawing and painting directly from live models."

Helen Khal