Born in Saida, Lebanon in 1979, Tagreed Darghouth received a Diploma in Painting and Sculpting from the Lebanese Institute of Fine Arts in Beirut in 2000. She participated in Ayloul Summer Academy, at Darat Al Funoun in Amman under the supervision of the Syrian German Artist Marwan Kassab Bashi in the summer of 2000 and 2001. In 2003 she went to Paris to study Space Art at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs.

In 2004 Tagreed Darghouth had her first solo exhibition entitled “Still Features” at Zico house, and then followed by “Falling Parts” at the Goethe institute in 2006, in Beirut. Since then she has been exhibiting with Agial Art Gallery; “Mirror, Mirror!” in 2008, followed by “Fair & Lovely” in 2010, “Canticle of Death” in 2011 and“Rehearsals” in 2013. She has participated in many collective exhibitions in Lebanon, Dubai, Al- Sharjah, Qatar, Jordan, Turkey, Argentine, London, USA, & France.

In his book Pilote de Guerre, Antoine de Saint Exupéry (also the writer of the famous Le Petit Prince), speaks with some arresting metaphors about his experience as a war pilot: "All I can see in the vertical is curios from another age, beneath clear, untrembling glass. I lean over crystal frames in a museum; I tower above a great sparkling pane, the great pane of my cockpit. Below are men-protozoa on a microscope slide.... I am an icy scientist, for me their war is a laboratory experiment."

Image: © Tagreed Darghouth, Agial Art Gallery