# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sara-shamma
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:01:06.680Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sara-shamma"
name: "Sara Shamma"
slug: "sara-shamma"
description: "Sara Shamma is a Syrian artist based between Damascus and London, whose painterly works are executed in a figurative mode. She represents Syria at the 61st Venice Biennale in 2026, thereby becoming the first Syrian artist to present a solo exhibition at the event. Storytelling and narrative are of paramount importance in her work. Shamma has long been preoccupied with the psychology of individual suffering and has produced work on war, modern slavery and human trafficking. Her oeuvre may be divided into series that reflect sustained periods of research."
tagline: "Syrian painter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Self_portrait_(2018)_-_Sara_Shamma.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1975-11-26"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           44.53
  momentum:             5.096952908587259
  historical:           5.952953333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://sarashamma.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%BE%E0%B4%B1_%E0%B4%B6%E0%B4%AE%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%AE"
    title: "സാറ ശമ്മ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%A9_%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%A9"
    title: "سارة شمة"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%87_%D8%B4%D9%85%D9%87"
    title: "ساره شمه"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Shamma"
    title: "Sara Shamma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_%C5%A0amma"
    title: "Sara Šamma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Shamma"
    title: "Sara Shamma"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%A1%D5%BC%D5%A1_%D5%87%D5%A1%D5%B4%D5%B4%D5%A1"
    title: "Սառա Շամմա"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7421768"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump