Born in Beirut in 1955, Edgard Mazigi holds a degree in textile engineering from ESITL Lyon (1978-1974) and a certificate with an excellence in painting award from the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting & Sculpture, USA (1998-1995). In 1999 he moves back permanently to Lebanon and starts his career as an artist. He now lives and works in Beirut. He regularly has solo shows in Beirut and participates in group exhibitions, juried shows and art fairs in Lebanon and abroad, including the Sursock Museum where he showed in every Salon d'automne the museum has had since 2003. He has also been teaching drawing at the Université Pour Tous at St Joseph University in Beirut since 2010.
The constant dialogue between abstraction and figuration is at the heart of Mazigi's art: he starts his canvases with totally abstract marks and finds his images while painting. By doing so, he hopes to add an element of spontaneity to his work, and element of unpredictability and perhaps one of mystery.
AWARDS
1998 Award of Excellence in Painting from The New York Studio School of Drawing,
Painting and Sculpture – New York, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 "Untold Stories" Art on 56th Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2013 "Lost and Found" Art on 56th Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2011 Université Pour Tous (Université Saint Joseph) – Beirut, Lebanon
2008 Janine Rubeiz Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2006: Janine Rubeiz Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2004 Aida Cherfan Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 ”Comeback 2020” Collective Exhibition, Art on 56th, Beirut, Lebanon
2019 Collective exhibtion “Lebanon” , Art on 56th , Beirut, Lebanon
2019 Beirut Art Fair, Art on56th Beirut, Lebanon
2019 Art on 56th Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2019 "R A M" during festival, Biennale Venice, Italy
2018 Art on 56th Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2017 Art on 56th Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2017 Imago Mundi, Palermo – Italy
2016 Sursock Museum - Salon d'Automne, juried show – Beirut, Lebanon
2016 "Bitasarrof" exhibition at the National Library – Beirut, Lebanon
2016 Beirut Art Fair, with Art on 56th Gallery – Beirut-Lebanon
2016 Art on 56th Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2015 Université Pour Tous (Université Saint Joseph) – Beirut, Lebanon
2015 Beirut Art Fair, with Art on 56th Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2015 Art on 56th Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2014 Art on 56th Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2014 ART14 - London, with Art on 56th Gallery – London, U.K.
2014 Beirut Art Fair, with Art on 56th Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2013 Contemporary Istanbul, with Art on 56th Gallery – Istanbul, Turkey
2013 Beirut Art Fair, with Art on 56th Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2012 Beirut Art Fair, with Galerie Epreuve d’Artiste – Beirut, Lebanon
2012 Université Pour Tous (Université Saint Joseph) – Beirut, Lebanon
2011 Janine Rubeiz Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2011 Pièce Unique Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2011 Université Pour Tous (Université Saint Joseph) – Beirut, Lebanon
2010 Sursock Museum – Salon d’Automne, Juried show – Beirut, Lebanon
2010 “Selections” exhibition in Qatar, Lebanese Ministry of Culture
2010 Janine Rubeiz Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2010 “Human Body Forms”– AUST Department of Arts & Design – Beirut, Lebanon
2010 “Lebanese Diaspora Intl Art Exhibition”, juried show, NDU/LERC Dome City Center – Lebanon
2009 Hamazkayin Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2009 “Virtuellement Réel” exhibition – Alice Mogabgab Gallery-Beirut
2009 Art Paris Dubai, Dubai ( with Janine Rubeiz Gallery)
2008 Sursock Museum – Salon d’Automne, Juried show – Beirut, Lebanon
2008 Janine Rubeiz Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2007 Sursock Museum – Salon d’Automne, Juried show – Beirut, Lebanon
2007 Janine Rubeiz Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2006 Sursock Museum – Salon d’Automne, Juried show – Beirut, Lebanon
2006 Janine Rubeiz Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2006 Aida Cherfan Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2006 “Pinceaux pour plumes”(National Library), Sursock Museum -Beirut
2005 Sursock Museum – Salon d’Automne, Juried show – Beirut, Lebanon
2005 Studio 11-4 Gallery – Belfast, Ireland
2005 Janine Rubeiz Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2005 Aida Cherfan Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2004 Sursock Museum – Salon d’Automne, Juried show – Beirut, Lebanon
2004 Aida Cherfan Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2003 Sursock Museum – Salon d’Automne, Juried show – Beirut, Lebanon
2003 Aida Cherfan Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2002 Aida Cherfan Gallery – Beirut, Lebanon
2002 NYSS juried show at Frederieke Taylor Gallery – New York, USA
1995 Danbury Public Library – Danbury, CT, USA
PUBLICATIONS
2012 Edgard Mazigi, a selection of paintings and drawings (2012-2005)
2013 Ecumes, a book of poems by Gerard Bejjani and images by Edgard Mazigi.
2017 "Untold stories" exhibition catalogue, essay by Gregory Buchakjian