About the Artist

Taline Kechichian (Lebanese-Armenian b. 1969) is a painter, printmaker.

In 2007 upon completing her Master’s Degree in Fine Art from the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria, under the tutorial of Prof. Gunter Damisch, Taline was granted an award of Excellence. She was the First Prize winner in 2003 at the Lenzing AG Competition in Austria.

She has created public art projects like Murals and Illustrations in Belgium, Austria and Lebanon. Invited by many renowned Museums and Art Centers like Kultum Graz, Weinstadt Museum, Krems and Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain and has participated in many Exhibitions and Autumn Shows in Austria, Belgium, Italy, France and Lebanon. She has donated her Art Works for good causes, in Austria, Latin America and Lebanon. She has given Seminars and workshops at ALBA, Fine Art Academy of Lebanon.In 1998 she graduated from Lebanese Conservatory with BA in Opera Singing. She is represented at Galerie Atelier 43 in St. Veit, Austria and Aïda Cherfan Fine Art, Lebanon

Taline Kechichian's works are deeply rooted in themes of spirituality, nature, human values and she uses shadows to express ideas in positive ways. Being born and grown in an unstable region of political instability she uses her art to rearrange natural and human elements to accentuate positive values like hope, unity, peace and charity.

Her depictions of blooming cherry trees and lavender fields of her latest exhibition “Gifts from Heaven” are not merely decorative; they serve as "counter-images" that resist the chaos.

Curriculum Vitae

  • 1969 Born in Bikfaya, Lebanon

  • 1987 Graduated Secondory School Tarouhi Hagopian

  • 1986-1998 Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music Occidental Vocal Arts and Performance, Prof. Jeanette Ilanjian. Graduated with Excellence.

  • 1990-1991 Internship Museum Of Louvre, Department of Graphic Arts, Paris. France.

  • 2000 Summer courses "Accademia Italiana di Firenze", Florence, Italy.

  • 1999, 2001 Summer courses at "Scuola Internazionale di Grafica di Venezia, Italy.

  • 2002-2007 Akademie der Bildende Künste Wien, Masterclasses of Prof. Gunter Damisch and Otto Zitko. Graduated with Excellence.

  • 2003 First Preis Lenzing A.G. Austria

  • 2002-2003  Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst, Salzburg, Austria.

  • 2014 Art Séminaire Conférence et Workshops a ‘LAcadémie des beaux arts de Beirut, guest prof, in French and English