Jacques Vartabedian (b. 1987, Beirut) is a Lebanese-Armenian artist whose practice spans painting, installation, and collaborative formats. Drawing from lived experience, political context, and visual memory, his work constructs fragile image-worlds where interruption becomes a method of seeing. Vartabedian explores how form behaves under pressure, spatial, emotional, or historical. Often collapsing traditional structures in favour of poetic dissonance.

Across a steadily evolving body of work, Vartabedian navigates the blurred terrain between figuration and abstraction. His practice is defined by a sensitivity to fragmentation of space, of identity, of narrative. And by a recurring tension between the familiar and the unstable. Using strategies such as repetition, erasure, spatial displacement, and shifts in scale, he creates pictorial environments that are both precise and porous.

Vartabedian holds a BA and MA in Painting from the Lebanese Institute of Fine Arts. He has exhibited across the Middle East and Europe, including the BJCEM Biennale (Milan) and Art Central (Hong Kong). He is the recipient of the Saradar Foundation’s Art on Board Painting Prize (2015) and the Boghossian Foundation Painting Prize (2016).

He lives and works in Beirut.