Bernard Ghanem was born in 1963, Lebanon. Since childhood, Bernard had a talent in transforming any raw material and scraps into objects of play which captured and engaged people around him. A student of life, he developed a talent nourished by his sensibility and natural ability to create art out of ordinary material. He moved from designing day to day lighting, to his first creative work of light, his sculpture "The Dancer" in 1992, followed by another work of art, "The Escape", etc. He is also an associate artist of the Sursock Museum's Salon d'Automne. He had two solo exhibitions, in 1996 and 2001, at "Agial Art Gallery", Beirut.

In 2002 Bernard travelled to the United Kingdom where he held numerous exhibitions in Hutton in the Forest Historic House, Cumbria followed at Kingston Lacy House, Dorset. His sculpture "Progress" became part of the permanent collection of Lady and Lord Hutton Art collection. He is also a member of "Cumbria Sculptors Artists Society". He held his solo exhibition in the United Kingdom at Fire & Iron Gallery. In May 2008, three of his sculptures were chosen to be part of the gallery's permanent collection and to be part of Surrey Sculptural Trail held every year at the Royal Horticultural Society's garden at Wisely, Surrey, UK. The artist continues to live and sculpt in Lebanon.

Image: © Bernard Ghanem, Agial Art Gallery