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MIREILLE MERHEJ

Profile Exhibitions Press

  • Mireille Merhej_UNTITLED 2_2012_Acrylic on Canvas_149 x 179 cm

  • Mireille Merhej_UNTITLED 3_2011_Acrylic on Canva_147.5 x 149.5 cm

  • Mireille Merhej_UNTITLED 4_2009_Acrylic on Canvas_105 x 120 cm

  • Mireille Merhej_UNTITLED 5_2012_Acrylic on Canvas_197 x 197 cm

  • Mireille Merhej_UNTITLED 6_2012_Acrylic on Canvas_200 x 257 cm

  • Mireille Merhej_UNTITLED 8_2011_Acrylic on Canvas_151.5 x 196 cm

  • Mireille Merhej_UNTITLED 9_2009_Acrylic on Canvas_103 x 120 cm

  • Mireille Merhej_UNTITLED 1_2012_Acrylic on Canvas_268 x 160 cm

  • Mireille Merhej_UNTITLED 7_2012_Acrylic on Canvas_357 x 200 cm

MIREILLE MERHEJ

Born in 1973, Lebanon, where she currently lives and works.

After completing her AA in graphic design and BA in fine arts at LAU Beirut, Mireille headed to Paris where she obtained her Master in decorative painting. Since the year 2000 Mireille has been working with renowned Lebanese interior designers painting murals, ceilings and walls using different techniques and textures for both residential and commercial spaces.
In 2009 Mireille abandoned her decorative work to concentrate on her own creative art production,
consisting mostly of painting on canvas where she deals with expressions of her nostalgia for the past
using images from magazines and newspapers as well as photographs taken by the artist herself.
“Looking” at the paintings of Mireille Merhej from a distance, one instantly recalls the works of
Jacque de la Villegle, Mimmo Rotella and Raymond Haines among the many artists who have adopted the iconic style of de-collage or ripped street posters. When we get closer to Merhej’s canvases however, we discover when scrutinizing their surface material that her images are in fact painstakingly painted in acrylic and are not simply collaged or de-collaged torn printed posters and pages of color magazines.
This leads us to place her work into the realm of photo-realism and brings to mind in particular-Malcolm Morley’s photo realistic paintings in the mid-sixties which were drawn from mundane post cards of ships.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2015 Michel Fadel Studio, Antelias, Lebanon
  • 2013 “Nostalgia”, artsawa, Dubai, UAE
  • 2012 Minotti Gallery, Achrafiyeh, Lebanon

GROUP EXHIBITION

  • 2017 Artspace Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 2017 The National Library, Lebanon
  • 2017 Artscene
  • 2016 Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 2016 Geek Express, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 2016 Bitasarrof, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 2016 LAU Alumni, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 2014 “Glimpses | Contemporary Arab Women Artists”, Abu Dhabi, UAE
  • 2013 “LAU Alumni”, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 2011 Q Contemporary, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 2000 Space of Art, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 1997 Maraya, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 1997 “LAU Art Exhibition”, Beirut, Lebanon

AUCTIONS

  • 2015 “World Refugee Day”, Paddle8, Dubai, UAE
  • 2014 Life, Guildhall, London, UK

EDUCATION

  • 2000 Ipedec School of Arts, Paris, France
  • 1997 BFA
  • 1995 Associate of Arts, Advertising, LAU, Lebanon
  • 1993 International College