Photo - Karen Keyrouz, La Fabrique des Arts, Fondation Fiminco © Manuel Abella

Karen Keyrouz is a Lebanese artist based in Paris. Working across drawing, writing, drawing performance, and sculpture, her practice is rooted in comics and places narration at its core.

Her work explores the relationship between intimate experience and collective narratives through themes of alienation, identity displacement, memory, absurdity, and violence. She is particularly interested in ordinary gestures and everyday situations, where tensions and unease become inscribed in or on the body.

In 2017, she co-organized a live drawing performance event in Beirut, which marked a turning point in her practice and opened up a field of research around ink stains, the shapes and traces of ink, and gesture.

Karen Keyrouz has presented her work at numerous international festivals, including the Angoulême International Comics Festival, BD Lyon, BD Amiens, and Cairo Comix.

She is a member of Samandal Comics. In 2022, she won the Mahmoud Kahil Award for Graphic Illustration. She is the author of Flux et Reflux (Éditions Alba, 2018) and Some Dances to Combat the Headache (Beit Waraq, 2024).

She is currently in residence at Fondation Fiminco, where she is exploring spatial forms of narration.

Contact: karenkeyrouz (at) gmail.com