Ghazi Baker

Ghazi Baker (1967) is a self-taught artist drawing on the aesthetic discipline of a practicing architect. Since his early teens, he has been learning and intellectualizing in a constant state of communion and renewal with the world around him. He has been painting for over 15 years but only recently agreed to have his art shown and acquired by the public. In the short time his work has been available, it already hangs in numerous private collections.

Born in Beirut in a multicultural family with an Iranian and Armenian heritage, Baker was raised during the Civil War years. In his youth, he spent some time in Europe where he cultivated a love for art, travel and adventure. An avid photographer and passionate bike rider, his trips, rides and photography have always been a source of inspiration and self-awareness.

Currently running his architectural practice and living in Beirut, Baker's style could be characterized as an exotic cocktail of pop influences, solid lines, post-structuralist art, cerebral and deliberately anti-thematic. Always looking to highlight the process itself, his artistic influences include comic book art, music, movies, esoteric imagery, everyday life, nature and the human condition. His work is inspired by thinkers as diverse as J. Derrida, M. Foucault and M. Merleau-Ponty.