Jacqueline Ohanian is a Lebanese artist of Armenian origin.
After many years of painting in watercolour, mainly figurative paintings, horses, still life and human figures, Jacqueline moved into abstract expressionism in various mediums giving her the freedom and spontaneity to combine imagination with the various realities around her.
“For the past 36 years, my work has matured with deeper insight gained only with the passing of time. My art provides a visual history, the subject matter of which tends to be fragmentary passages that we experience in the everyday.” and is constantly unfolding
Jacqueline is always in search of absolutes. Through her eclectic work, she attempts to reveal the hidden elements in contemporary life, allowing them to shine in a new light.
“I am inspired by the world that we together inhabit. Today this world is marked by mass exodus, by people being uprooted and forced into perilous journeys across unfamiliar shores. Visual culture has also developed, hugely transformed and become a mandatory player in the mediation of current disasters and epidemics.
It is in making art that I am able to reflect on such transformations. I attempt to find hope and advocate for reconciliation and harmony in the uncertain world in which we are all living, offering a gesture of optimism and peace.”
Jacqueline received her Bachelor’s of Fine Arts (BFA) from the State University of New York at Albany. She is currently a member of the Lebanese Artist Association Painters and Sculptors in Lebanon and also member of A.I.A.P. UNESCO
EXHIBITIONS
Ohanian has participated in over 48 selected group exhibitions and Biennales since 1979. She has had over 34 solo exhibitions since 2004. Her work has been presented in the United States, France, Belgium, Switzerland and the United Arab Emirates.
