Over the course of a career spanning more than four decades, nabilKanso created a vast range of compelling works whose power and vision delve deeply into the realities of war in affecting our lives. The outpouring of his art reflecting a deep engagement with fundamental aesthetic and human issues projects a wide vista between the material and spiritual world to reveal images of pathos and tensions that take aesthtic, social and moral significance in the face war, chaos, cruelty and indifference.
American, born in Lebanon, he attended schools in Beirut and London. In 1966, he moved to New York and studied art, philosophy and political sience at NYU.  In 1968 he established a studio and evolved a highly personal art set forth on a large format of figurative compositions of apocalyptic nature. Following a series of exhibitions in New York in the early 1970s, his studio was seized and the bulk of his output was placed in storage and destroyed. Despite the staggering loss, he continued to create large scale oils wherein the same elements of his work remained at the center of his style. With the outbreak of the Civil War in his native Lebanon in 1975, he began the Split of Life   series of enormous paintings whose highly charged subjects and themes reveal compelling expressions on human brutality and suffering.
The long running series comprising about a 100 paintings depicted intense images that embodied their own presence, reason and persistence in their depiction of contemporary horror of war on a large scale. 
In overcoming the day-to-day challenges and obstacles, he took his work directly to the people across cultures and societies.  After touring the South and settling in Atlanta 1980, he went to Venezuela and began a series of latin American and worldwide traveling shows in which each exhibit became a major event exerting a strong impact on a wide circle of viewers. The exhibitions provided a valuable stimulant for  the Journey of Art for Peace through which a continuum of shows and conferences were held in various countries.