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Carolin Semerjian

Visual Arts

Syrian-Armenian • Based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Languages: Arabic, English

Carolin Semerjian is a Syrian-Armenian artist, art historian, and curator whose practice spans painting, curation, and academic research. Trained at the Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts, she works primarily in oil, using tone, contrast, and layered colour to hold memory and lived experience.

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

2018
Rhythm, Fateh Moudarres Gallery
Syria
2019
Same Same, But Different
AGBU Space, Armenia

Group Exhibitions

2015
Map of the New Art
Imago Mundi, Italy
2015
Beirut Art Discovery
Emmanuel Paul Guiragossian Musée, Lebanon
2016
Youth
Carla Ortiz Collection, USA
2018
Identity & Love
Albert Tove Boyajyan Gallery, Armenia
2024
Summer & Women
Al-Ittihad Modern Art Gallery, UAE
2024
And The More I See, The More Life Means To Me
Rizq Art Gallery, UAE

Artistic Practice

RESEARCH APPROACH

Practice-led research using making as a way of thinking. Observation, experimentation, and reflection guide the work, with ideas emerging from lived experience, emotional states, and place.

KEY THEMES

Identity, memory, emotion, light and darkness, cultural presence, environment

METHODS AND PROCESSES

Develops work through sketches and notes, building paintings through layering, repetition, and material experimentation.

Mediums

PRIMARY

Oil

SECONDARY

Acrylic, Watercolour, Charcoal

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

2021
Komitas 150 Golden Medal
by Ministries of Defense and Culture, Armenia

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