Biography
Tagreed Darghouth was born in Saida, Lebanon in 1979. She studied painting and sculpture at the Lebanese Institute of Fine Arts in Beirut, then continued at the Ayloul Summer Academy at Darat Al Funoun in Amman with Marwan Kassab Bachi, and at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris. She won first prize at the cm3 competition at the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris in 2003. Her paintings work with subjects that Lebanese society would prefer not to examine directly — the obsession with cosmetic surgery, the social dynamics introduced by migrant domestic workers, the body as a site of cultural pressure and transformation. The work is figural, psychologically charged, and formally confident. It has been exhibited in Beirut, Dubai, Qatar, Amman, Istanbul, Buenos Aires, the United States and France.