Studio Prints
Marc Balakjian
1940 - 2017
Marc Balakjian was born in 1940. His parents were survivors of the 1915 Armenian Genocide. He grew up in Lebanon, in the small town of Rayak next to a French military airbase. At the age of 10 he moved to Beirut with his parents. In 1966 he came to England to study architecture.
After working a year in Oxford as an architectural draftsman he decided to study art. From 1967 to 1970 he studied painting at Hammersmith College of Art in London and from 1971 to 1973 postgraduate printmaking at the Slade School of Fine Art.
He taught printmaking in art schools in Great Britain, Europe and the USA and exhibited in the UK, Europe, USA and Japan, receiving many awards and international prizes in these exhibitions.
His work is included in a great number of public gallery and museum collections in Great Britain, Europe and the USA. These include The British Museum and Victoria and Albert Museum, London; City Art Gallery, Edinburgh; Glynn Vivien Art Gallery, Swansea; Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; Albertina Museum, Vienna; Modern Art Museum, Dublin; Modern Art Museum Fredrikstad, Norway and the National Gallery of Art Washington, USA.
Marc died on the 10th of August 2017 at his home in London.
Selected Prints
Marc Balakjian
What's Left to Remember
Marc Balakjian
In the Silence of Passing Years
Marc Balakjian was an artist and print maker of Armenian descent whose work is in international collections including the British Museum and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
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