Tagreed Darghouth (b. Saida, 1979) is a Lebanese painter. She obtained a degree in Fine Arts from the Lebanese University in Beirut, as well as a diploma in Art Education. She participated in the Ayloul Summer Academy at Darat Al-Funun in Amman in 2000 and 2001, which was led by the Syrian-German artist Marwan Kassab Bashi. She then went on to study Space Art at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. In 2004, Darghouth had her first solo exhibition, Still Features, at Zico House in Beirut. It was followed by another solo, Falling Parts, at the Goethe institute in Beirut in 2006. Dargouth has since had several solo exhibitions in Agial Art Gallery, including Mirror, Mirror! (2008), Fair & Lovely (2010), Canticle of Death (2011), Rehearsals (2013), and Vision Machines, Shall You See Me Better Now? (2015).
Other solo exhibitions include Ain’t Nowhere to Hide at Contemporary Art Platform in Kuwait (2016), Analogy to Human Life at Saleh Barakat Gallery in Beirut (2018), A Second Coming at Beirut Art Residency (2018), and Strange Fruit at Tabari Artspace in Dubai (2019). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions around the world, in Al-Sharjah, Amman, Beirut, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Doha, Dubai, Jordan, Istanbul, London, Miami, Munich, New York, Paris, and Singapore; including the 10th Anniversary of the Kasa Art Gallery exhibition in Istanbul (2010), Connecting Heavens at Green Art Gallery in Dubai (2010), Subtitled: With Narratives from Lebanon at the Royal College of Art in London (2011), Thin Skin: Six Artists from Beirut at Taymour Grahne Gallery in New York (2014), Our Beloved Bodies II at the Barjeel Art Foundation in
Sharjah (2017), and Walking Through Walls at Gropius-Bau in Berlin (2019). Dargouth has received several prizes, including the 2nd Prize at the Ayloul Summer Academy exhibition in Darat Al-Funun in Amman in 2000, the 1st prize at the cm3 exhibition in Cité International Universitaire de Paris in 2003, and the Boghossian prize for a young Lebanese artist in the category of painting in 2012. She currently works and lives in Beirut, Lebanon.
