Art Talk with Guillaume Toumanian
The Curator Lab, 529 Arts, Lazarew de Pontcharra, AGBU Arts
Join visual artist Guillaume Toumanian for a discussion on his artistic process, how it has influenced his latest exhibition, Inwardness, as well as opportunities for cultural exchange between France and Armenia with his ongoing Project MENK.
https://www.guillaumetoumanian.com/
Born in Marseille in 1974, Guillaume Toumanian lives and works in Paris. His participation in the Salon de Montrouge in 2003 marked the beginning of a sustained exhibition career in France and abroad. In 2005, he travelled for the first time to Armenia, the land of his family roots, an experience that profoundly shaped the memory-infused paintings that have become central to his practice. He also developped an international carreer that year, with a first solo in NYC.
From 2010 onwards, his works entered prestigious collections while he made a series of residencies abroad, notably in China (Beijing and Hangzhou). In 2018, he began a long-term collaboration with Galerie Samira Cambie in Montpellier.
From 2020, his presence on the Parisian art scene expanded through a residency at the LAccolade Foundation, the production of a series of lithographs at the renowned IDEM workshop, and his first exhibition with Galerie Lazarew - de Pontcharra. Three solo exhibitions and several group shows have already been presented together, along with participation in several international art fairs.
In 2023, he was invited by Numa Hambursin and Amélie Adamo to participate in Immortelle: The Vitality of Young French Figurative Painting at MO.CO Montpellier. That same year, he curated the group exhibition Mimesis at Galerie Lazarew, bringing together works by Axel Pahlavi, Florence Obrecht, Raphaëlle Ricol, Nazanin Pouyandeh, and Stéphane Pencréac’h.
At the end of 2024, coinciding with the publication of his first monograph at Éditions Lord Byron, Chapelle des Cordeliers in Toulouse devoted a major solo exhibition to his work. In 2025, he took part in the acclaimed exhibition Luxe, calme et volupté in Cannes, organised for the reopening of Art Center La Malmaison and curated by Amélie Adamo.
Alongside his artistic practice, Guillaume Toumanian is the founder of MENK, a multidisciplinary artistic initiative developing between France and Armenia with the support of the French Institute. Learn more about MENK at https://projet-menk.com/.
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