Visual Arts
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.
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.
Identity, memory, emotion, light and darkness, cultural presence, environment
Develops work through sketches and notes, building paintings through layering, repetition, and material experimentation.