Born in Saida, Lebanon, Tagreed Darghouth earned a diploma in art education and studied fine arts at the Lebanese University in Beirut. She then went on to study space art at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris.

Darghouth’s figurative painting forces her public to confront difficult and controversial subjects, such as the desire of the Lebanese society to import Western features through the excessive use of plastic surgery, and the shocking conditions of female domestic helpers.

She is currently working on a series of works related to the subject of nuclear weapons. She draws attention to the irony of the contrast between the colourful, happy nicknames given to weapons of mass destruction and their lethal purposes.

Since 2004, Darghouth has exhibited in Beirut, Istanbul, Dubai, Qatar, Amman, Paris, and Buenos Aires. She was awarded the first prize at cm3 by the Cité Internationale Universitaire de Paris in 2003 and the second prize of Darat al Funun’s Summer Academy in 2000 in Jordan.