Muriel Ahmarani Jaouich is a Canadian artist of Armenian, Egyptian, and Lebanese descent, whose paintings focus on genealogy, intergenerational trauma and historical violence. She creates a narrative based on the history of her family; one of diaspora, immigration, and genocide. Her research is based on oral histories, photographic archives and objects bequeathed to her. Ahmarani Jaouich transforms this knowledge and creates narratives using memory and imagination. The work speaks of ancestral grief. Such grief work invites an ongoing practice of deepening, caring, and listening. Ahmarani Jaouich believes that dealing with undigested anguish of our ancestors frees us to live our present lives. In turn, it can also relieve ancestral suffering in the other world.

Muriel Ahmarani Jaouich is currently living on the unceded indigenous lands of Tiohtià:ke / Montreal, QC, Canada, of the Kanien’kehà:ka Peoples. She is the recipient of the Lilian Vineberg scholarship, the Merit scholarship as well as the Tom Hopkins Memorial award. In recent years, her work has been presented in exhibitions, including the Museum of Fine Arts in Montreal, Patel Brown, Centre CLARK, articule, Printemps du Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, as well as art fairs in Paris, New York, Dallas, Miami. Ahmarani Jaouich’s works are present in corporate and private collections in New York, Los Angeles, Prague, Barcelona, Milan, Toronto and Montreal.