Simone Fattal was born in Damascus and raised in Lebanon. She first studied philosophy at the École des Lettres of Beirut and then at the Sorbonne in Paris. In 1969, she returned to Beirut and started working as a visual artist, exhibiting her paintings until the start of the Lebanese Civil War. In 1980 she settled in California where she founded the Post-Apollo Press, a publishing house dedicated to innovative and experimental literary work. In 1988 she enrolled at the Art Institute of San Francisco, to return to her artistic practice and a newfound dedication to sculpture and ceramics. Fattal currently lives in Paris. Her work is included in several public collections, such as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; the Yves Saint Laurent Museum in Marrakech; the Sursock Museum, Beirut; the Sharja Art Foundation and the National Museum of Qatar, Doha.