Agial Art Gallery & Saleh Barakat Gallery

Darghouth, Tagreed Lebanon, 1979

Tagreed Darghouth (b. Saida, 1979) is a Lebanese painter. She obtained a degree in Fine Arts from the Lebanese University in Beirut, as well as a diploma in Art Education. She participated in the Ayloul Summer Academy at Darat Al-Funun in Amman in 2000 and 2001, which was led by the Syrian-German artist Marwan Kassab Bashi. She then went on to study Space Art at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. In 2004, Darghouth had her first solo exhibition, Still Features, at Zico House in Beirut. It was followed by another solo, Falling Parts, at the Goethe institute in Beirut in 2006. Dargouth has since had several solo exhibitions in Agial Art Gallery, including Mirror, Mirror! (2008), Fair & Lovely (2010), Canticle of Death (2011), Rehearsals (2013), and Vision Machines, Shall You See Me Better Now? (2015).

Other solo exhibitions include Ain’t Nowhere to Hide at Contemporary Art Platform in Kuwait (2016), Analogy to Human Life at Saleh Barakat Gallery in Beirut (2018), A Second Coming at Beirut Art Residency (2018), and Strange Fruit at Tabari Artspace in Dubai (2019). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions around the world, in Al-Sharjah, Amman, Beirut, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Doha, Dubai, Jordan, Istanbul, London, Miami, Munich, New York, Paris, and Singapore; including the 10th Anniversary of the Kasa Art Gallery exhibition in Istanbul (2010), Connecting Heavens at Green Art Gallery in Dubai (2010), Subtitled: With Narratives from Lebanon at the Royal College of Art in London (2011), Thin Skin: Six Artists from Beirut at Taymour Grahne Gallery in New York (2014), Our Beloved Bodies II at the Barjeel Art Foundation in

Sharjah (2017), and Walking Through Walls at Gropius-Bau in Berlin (2019). Dargouth has received several prizes, including the 2nd Prize at the Ayloul Summer Academy exhibition in Darat Al-Funun in Amman in 2000, the 1st prize at the cm3 exhibition in Cité International Universitaire de Paris in 2003, and the Boghossian prize for a young Lebanese artist in the category of painting in 2012. She currently works and lives in Beirut, Lebanon.

VIEW Artist’S CV

Arabicity MEI Art Gallery, 2019 View Catalogue

Installation View
MEI Art Gallery

Washington, DC

Ref.#: mei_td

Walking Through Walls, 2019 View Catalogue

"Vision Machines; Shall You See Me Better Now?"
Acrylic on canvas
Variable dimensions
2019

Ref.#: td02_b

"Vision Machines; Shall You See Me Better Now?"
Acrylic on canvas
Variable dimensions
2019

Ref.#: td01_b

Tagreed Darghouth
Walking Through Walls
Gropius Bau museum, Berlin

Ref.#: td03_b

Analogy to Human Life, 2018 View Catalogue

"The Tree Within,
A Palastinian Olive Tree" series
Acrylic on canvas
280x210 cm
2018

Ref.#: tdn14

"The Tree Within,
A Palastinian Olive Tree" series
Display

Ref.#: tdd13

"Hear, Hear!" series
Acrylic on canvas
150x200 cm
2017

Ref.#: tdn11

"Vanitas" series
Acrylic on canvas
200x200 cm
2018

Ref.#: tdn10

"Merkava" series
Acrylic on canvas
115x200 cm
2017/2018

Ref.#: tdn09

"Caterpillars" series
120x100 cm -each
Display

Ref.#: tdd08

"Caterpillars" series
Acrylic on canvas
100x120 cm
2017

Ref.#: tdn07

"Piece of Meat" series
Acrylic on canvas
160x120 cm
2017

Ref.#: tdn06

"Piece of Meat" series
Acrylic on canvas
160x120 cm
2017

Ref.#: tdn17

"Chopped" series
Acrylic on canvas
120x100 cm- each
2017

Ref.#: tdn01

"The Tree Within,
A Palastinian Olive Tree" series
Display

Ref.#: tdd04

"Strange Fruits" series
Acrylic on canvas
200x240cm
2017

Ref.#: tdn02

Vision Machines, Shall You See Me Better Now?, 2015 View Catalogue