Biography
Manuella Guiragossian, born in Lebanon in 1972, grew up in an artistic family and developed a passion for storytelling, cartoons, and animation. As a child, she spent most of her time in her father’s studio, the renowned painter Paul Guiragossian. At the age of 16, in 1989, she held her first solo exhibition of 13 cartoon characters called “Les Archifous” in Paris. In 1993, she briefly attended the Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts (ALBA).
In 1997, Manuella pursued her long-time dream of learning animation, and in 2002, she graduated from the California Institute of the Arts with a BFA in Film and Video, specialising in Character Animation. For over two decades, she has participated in numerous group exhibitions, art fairs, and solo shows in Beirut, Paris, Los Angeles, Abu Dhabi, Muscat, Amsterdam, and Singapore.
Artwork
