An urban artist, painter, and sculptor, Nadim Karam is characterized by his rigour and spatial concepts; which he developed during his decade of architectural studies in Japan; and an innate tragi-comic sense of storytelling. Whether an urban artwork, sculpture, painting or story, his work is a whimsical wonderland with an absurdity that makes even its most serious, sometimes dark messages palatable. His manifesto for his 2006 book "Urban Toys" confirmed the mission he has set for himself; to create dreams for cities: "There is lots of terror on earth, and there are lots of bombs in cities these days. Cities, countries and the world are caught in a tide of nihilism whose protagonists believe that destruction is a solution. There should be a hundred times more creative effort to resist what is being negated.

Cities need to dream. They were built up slowly on thousands of small dreams. Somewhere, cities should still dream. We should make them dream... "

These 'dreams for cities' have made their apparition in various places, including Beirut, Dubai, Prague, London, Tokyo and Nara. In 2006 he was commissioned to make 'The Travellers,' by Victoria State and the City of Melbourne. Telling the story of migrants who went to Australia, his ten three-story high sculptures move along the Sandridge Bridge on rails at set times each day, creating an urban clock in what has become the first moving artwork in the world. Several sculptures at Sultan Gallery evoke the sculptures created for these projects, with some showing the abstraction of forms resulting from the overlay of sculptures with each other.

Nadim Karam's most recent project is 'The Cloud', inspired by the city of Dubai. Standing at a height of approximately 300 meters, it is a huge floating garden in the sky resembling a cloud. Conceived as an ethereal horizontal antithesis to the rocketing of skyscrapers into Gulf skylines, it evokes the nomads, whose travels followed the borderless movement of clouds, and offers a dream-like public space to counteract the exclusivity of Dubai's plethora of private leisure areas. The project has been presented in the book 'The Cloud, the Desert and the Arabian breeze', published by Booth- Clibborn Editions, London. Nadim Karam's exhibition at Sultan Gallery is the first presentation of his series of "Cloud" paintings.

The 'Chair' series evoke the artist's longtime fascination with 'The Thinker' by Rodin and trace their origins back to his 'Modem Thinker' (1986). Here, often, the Thinker himself has been abstracted, leaving his chair alone to evoke the birthplace of ideas.

Nadim Karam has exhibited his paintings and sculptures in galleries, institutions and the Liverpool Biennale, Kwangju Biennale and Venice Biennale. His works figure among the private collections of corporations, banks and cultural institutions in Japan, Lebanon, the UK and the Arab world... In 2007 he was commissioned one of the signature art installations of the Gulf Art Fair, Dubai, and was called upon by Sotheby's education programme at the Paris - Abu-Dhabi Art Fair. Comprehensive books on his urban art works, paintings and sculptures have been published by Booth- Clibborn Editions, London, VOYAGE (2000) and URBAN TOYS, (2006).