DATE: Thursday, October 16, 2025
TIME: 7:30pm – 8pm
LOCATION: 401 Riverside Dr. W, Windsor, ON
COST: This event is part of AWE at Night
Accessibility: Accessibility and accommodation requests must be made at least two weeks in advance of the event. Please contact [email protected] for questions.
Healing is an intergenerational undertaking in the paintings of Muriel Ahmarani Jaouich. As a third-generation member of the Armenian diaspora, Ahmarani Jaouich’s work reflects her family’s history of exile following the Armenian Genocide. Traces remain from her family’s journeys from the Ottoman Empire through Egypt and Lebanon, and lastly to Montreal.
Muriel Ahmarani Jaouich is a Canadian artist of Armenian, Egyptian, and Lebanese descent, exploring themes of genealogy, intergenerational trauma, and historical violence through her paintings. Her work is deeply rooted in her family’s history of diaspora, immigration, and genocide, drawing from oral histories, photographic archives, and inherited objects. Ahmarani Jaouich transforms these sources into narratives that blend memory with imagination, resonating with ancestral grief. Her practice advocates for a continual process of listening, believing that addressing ancestral grief liberates present and future generations.
Currently residing on the unceded indigenous lands of Tiohtià:ke / Montreal, QC, Canada, on Kanien’kehà:ka Peoples territory, she has received recognition through the Lilian Vineberg Scholarship, Merit Scholarship, and Tom Hopkins Memorial Award. Her artworks have been exhibited at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Patel Brown, CLARK Center, articule, Printemps du MAC and Arsenal New York. Ahmarani Jaouich’s paintings are held in corporate collections, including Hydro-Québec, RBC, Scotiabank, as well as in private collections in New York, Los Angeles, Prague, Barcelona, Milan, Toronto, and Montreal. Ahmarani Jaouich is represented by Patel Brown.
