Muriel Ahmarani Jaouich

Muriel Ahmarani Jaouich is a Canadian artist of Armenian, Egyptian, and Lebanese descent whose paintings explore genealogy, intergenerational trauma, and historical violence. She constructs narratives rooted in her family history, addressing themes of diaspora, immigration, and genocide. Her research draws upon oral traditions, photographic archives, and inherited objects. By transforming the knowledge conveyed through these stories and artifacts, Muriel creates narratives grounded in both memory and imagination. Her work evokes ancestral grief—a subject that calls for an ongoing practice of deep reflection, compassion, and listening. She believes that confronting the torment from which our ancestors could not free themselves is essential to living in the present. Consequently, this process may also alleviate ancestral suffering in the spirit world. Muriel Ahmarani Jaouich currently lives on the unceded Indigenous lands of the Kanien’kehà:ka people—specifically in Tiohtià:ke/Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She is the recipient of the Lilian Vineberg Award, the Merit Scholarship, and the Tom Hopkins Memorial Prize. In recent years, her work has been featured in various exhibitions, including at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Patel Brown Gallery (Montreal), Centre CLARK, articule, the *Printemps* at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, and AucArt gallery in the United Kingdom. Her work is held in the collections of Hydro-Québec, CIBC, and RBC, as well as in private collections in New York, Los Angeles, Prague, Barcelona, ​​Milan, Toronto, and Montreal.