Simone Fattal ( Arabic: سيمون فتال; born 1942) is a Lebanese-American artist.

She was born in Damascus and was educated in Beirut and Paris, studying philosophy at the Sorbonne. She returned to Beirut in 1969, where she began a career as a painter. ^[1] She began working in clay at The Art Institute of California, later working in Grasse with ceramic artist Hans Spinner. ^[2]

She lived with poet and artist Etel Adnan, until Adnan's death in November 2021. The couple left Lebanon for Sausalito, California in 1980. There, Fattal established a publishing house Post-Apollo Press. She returned to the visual arts in 1988, producing sculpture, watercolors, paintings and collage. ^[1] She later moved to Paris. ^[3]

In 2017, she was nominated for a AWARE prize for women artists. ^[2]

In 2019, a retrospective of her work "Works and Days" was presented at the Museum of Modern Art's MoMA PS1. ^[1] Her work has also been exhibited at the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakesh, at the Rochechouart Museum of Contemporary Art and at the Sharjah Art Foundation. ^[3]

In April 2021, Fattal assisted an exhibition with Serhan Ada at the Pera Museum in Istanbul of Etel Adnan's work. ^[4]

'Finding a Way', commissioned by the Whitechapel Gallery, was on view in London between 21 Sep 2021 – 15 May 2022. ^[5]

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