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Anna Boghiguian

Paradis perdu

Anna Boghiguian exhibits her sculptures and works on paper made from various materials found in her immediate environment.


Anna Boghiguian exhibits her sculptures and works on paper made from various materials found in her immediate environment. Dolls looking like shamanic objects, wall boxes like playful theaters, overflowing shells, pieces of wood, fabrics, spools of threads, this artist elaborates a language close to primitivism extracted from her multiple trips around the world.

Anna Boghiguian graduated from Concordia University in 1975 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. Previously, in 1969, she had completed a B.A. in Political Science and Economics in Cairo, Egypt. In 1985, she taught drawing in India. She taught drawing, painting and sculpture at CÉGEP Vanier in 1982 and 1979. She has held a number of exhibitions, including: 1988, Yemen, Gallery #1. 1987, Cairo, Contemporary Art Gallery, 1986, Athens, Art Forum, 1983 and 1988, Cairo, Atelier du Caire, 1982, Toronto, Del Bello, 1980, Montreal, In Studio. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)