Exhibition

Profile

• Born 1973 in Damascus, Syria. Based in London, UK.

Hrair Sarkissian started his career at his father’s photographic studio in Damascus. Today he is considered one of the leading conceptual photographers of his generation. Spanning photography, moving image, sculpture, sound and installation, Sarkissian’s practice creates meditative dreamscapes in some moments, deathscapes in others—sites where the muted voice, absent from the frame, is temporarily offered space to breathe. Sarkissian sits on the Advisory Board of the Arab Image Foundation in Beirut.

Selected exhibitions

2024

Solo exhibitions, The Presence of Absence, Fotografisk Center (Copenhagen, Denmark)

2021–23

Solo exhibitions, The Other Side of Silence, Bonnefanten Museum (Maastricht, The Netherlands)/Bonniers Konsthall (Stockholm, Sweden)/Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE)

2021

The British Art Show 9 (UK)

2020

Solo exhibitions, FOCUS: Hrair Sarkissian, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (USA)

2015

56th Venice Biennale (awarded the Golden Lion), Armenian Pavilion (Italy)

• “Execution Squares” 2008
• Colloction of Tate Modern.