Tagreed Darghouth

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Tagreed Darghouth is a Lebanese painter. She obtained a degree in Fine Arts from the Lebanese University in Beirut, as well as a diploma in Art Education. She participated in the Ayloul Summer Academy at Darat Al-Funun in Amman in 2000 and 2001, which was led by the Syrian-German artist Marwan Kassab Bachi. She then went on to study Space Art at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. In painting Darghouth’s body of work reflects on the feebleness of humanity by tackling themes such as popular culture and socio-political issues. Darghouth delves into universal concerns in an abstract expressionist style by addressing mortality, violence, and war through the painting of skulls and nuclear explosions. Dargouth has had several solo and group exhibitions around the world, in Al-Sharjah, Amman, Beirut, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Doha, Dubai, Jordan, Istanbul, London, Miami, Munich, New York, Paris, and Singapore. She has also received several prizes, including the 2nd Prize at the Ayloul Summer Academy exhibition in Darat Al-Funun in Amman in 2000, the 1st prize at the cm3 exhibition in Cité International Universitaire de Paris in 2003, and the Boghossian prize for a young Lebanese artist in the category of painting in 2012. She currently lives and works in Beirut, Lebanon.