Aram Jughian
Aram Jughian is a Lebanese-Armenian artist born in 1959. He is self taught and has been exhibiting his artwork since 1975.
Artist Statement
I project all my life into my art, paintings or drawings. My emotions, my desires, my frustrations, my family... everything is there... I live in each one of them.
My paintings aren’t just images, they are fruits of nature. Since I live with nature, my painting is a tree …the trunk and branches overlap gradually, plethora of foliage, my soul is the root, a trunk, a branch, working with colors that gradually strike brushstroke after brushstroke. Until the fabric becomes the painting. The painting itself carries all of its growing pains invisible to the naked eye.
These paintings are like the fruits of nature, perfectly ripe, that call to be picked.
Individual exhibitions:
- Hotel Mzar (Faraya) 1978
- Rumours Art Gallery 1987, 1991
- Kulturzentrum 1992
- Russian Cultural Center 1990
- Platform Gallery 1991, 1992
- Galerie Epreuve d’Artiste 1991, 1992, 1993
- De Mette Gallery (retrospective 25 years) 1994
- Art et Culture (bad habits) 1995
- Galerie Janine Rubeiz 1996, 1997, 2002, 2005
- L’Entretemps 1998
- L’Espace S.D. 1999, 2000
- M’ars Museum Art Gallery Moscow 2001
Collective exhibitions (some of them):
Le point, Galerie Chahine, Mouvement Culturel, Galleria, Balloune Public Garden, Sanayeh Public Garden (sculpture), Lebanese American University (LAU) – Abstract painting in Lebanon (exhibition and book), Galleries Alwan, Epreuve d’Artiste, l’Entretemps, Maraya, Portfolio, Anthologie, INSEAT, Centre Culturel Français
(CCF), Lebanon, The Artist’s View II in London 2004, Art sud, Chatelet, Paris, 2004, Gallery One, Dubai, 2000, EAE Gallery, Leiden (Netherlands), 2005, Anne Guillet (Paris), M’ars (Moscow), La Fontaine Bahrein, Al-Sharjah, Qatar, and others.
Other activities:
- Biennale Al-Sharjah 1997
- Since 1988 he has been present at the “Salon d’automne” in Sursock Museum
- Since 1994 he is a member (sociétaire) in the Musée Nicolas Sursock
- He has realized a large mural (14 x 3 meters) for the Public Work Ministery
- He has paintings in the Ministery of Culture
- He has a painting in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Moscow
- Gallery One Dubai (opening) 2004
- Qatar with the collaboration of the Ministery of Culture 2010
- Gallery Sultan in Kuweit City 2006, 2007
- He has paintings in Sursock Museum in Beirut, permanent exhibition
- He has paintings in Galerie Janine Rbeiz and Galerie Ajial (both in Beirut) 2007
- Paintings in museums and private collections in London, Los Angeles, and Jakarta, Indonesia
- Washington, Moscow, Cologne, Rotterdam, Paris, Leiden, Jakarta
