Jacques Vartabedian (b. 1987, Beirut) is a Lebanese-Armenian artist whose interdisciplinary practice spans painting, installation, and collaborative formats. His work, informed by lived experience, political contexts, and visual memory, constructs delicate image-worlds where interruption serves as a mode of perception. Vartabedian examines how forms behave under spatial, emotional, or historical pressure, frequently dismantling traditional structures to favor poetic dissonance.

Across a consistently evolving body of work, Vartabedian navigates the blurred boundaries between figuration and abstraction, marked by an acute sensitivity to the fragmentation of space, identity, and narrative. His works embody a persistent tension between familiarity and instability. Employing repetition, erasure, spatial displacement, and shifts in scale, he creates pictorial environments that are simultaneously precise and permeable.

Vartabedian earned his BA and MA in Painting from the Lebanese Institute of Fine Arts and has exhibited internationally across the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. He currently lives and works in Beirut.

Awards

Selected Solo Shows

Selected Collective Exhibitions

Artist Residencies