L' ART BLESSÉ

Lebanese-American, born in 1949 in Beirut to Armenian Genocide survivors. Semi abstract figurative expressionist contemporary painter, Missak Terzian studied at Ecole

d’Art Guvder in 1968 and graduated from London College of Printing in 1971.

He held his first major art exhibition in 1984. Since then, the artist has participated in 133 exhibitions worldwide. His paintings are part of many collections in Europe, United States, the Middle East, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Armenia, the United Arab Emirates, Canada and the Republic of China; namely the Saudi Royal family and prominent Lebanese political personalities.

His works are on permanent display throughout Lebanon, at the Dalloul Art Foundation DAF, the bank Audi head office, the Armenian catholicossate of Cilicia museum, Haigazian university, the Sursock museum, the museum of Bzommar, the Banque du Liban head office and the Bank of Sharjah head office.

With an innate and primal impulse to create, figurative artist Missak Terzian is in timeless search for existentialism and is eager to record time and occurrences. “For me, painting is a visual testament of the mind, body and spirit. Distortion and exaggeration triggers a continuous search into an unknown semi-abstraction ” Missak Explains.

Artistic Education:

1969: Graduated from Guvder Art School, Beirut, Lebanon

1971: Graduated from London College of Printing, London, United Kingdom

Prizes:

1967 1st. Prize of Jury Paul Guiragossian, U.J.A.C., Bourj Hamoud,

Lebanon

1996 2nd. Prize at the 2nd Egyptian Print Biennale, Cairo, Egypt.