Karina Yacoubian
Painter-Interior-Architect
– Biography -
Karina Yacoubian is a visual artist whose abstract work is defined by the expressive use of color, movement, and interlocking forms. Her compositions maintain a strong connection to the surreal and the imaginary, often unfolding between geometric structure and organic freedom.
From an early age, Karina showed a deep interest in drawing, art history, and architecture—three languages that have continued to shape her creative journey. She studied Interior Design at ORT University in Montevideo, Uruguay, and later pursued Architecture at the University of Belgrano in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Though academically trained in design and architecture, she is a self-taught painter who continually experiments with materials, techniques, and formats, driven by a deep personal curiosity and expressive urgency.
She has lived in Argentina, Mexico, and the United States. After returning to Uruguay, she became involved in various architectural projects while developing her painting practice. In 2020, she relocated to Belgium to fully dedicate herself to her visual work.
Her early paintings reflect a strong influence of abstract expressionism—large-scale canvases worked in oil, where saturated colors coexist with an underlying geometric structure, sometimes softened by fluid, organic lines. In more recent works, Yacoubian has embraced a freer, more gestural approach. Her current paintings reveal a shift toward spontaneity, intuition, and emotional resonance—closer to action painting—where color becomes voice, and movement becomes emotion.
Her paintings are part of private collections in the United States, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay.
Pure white serie
In this series of canvases, the connection between space-universe-human being is worked from a symbolic level.
That place that we do not know, immense and infinite, is an analogy of the human species. The different themes that make up the series try to tell a story, an internal connection, between the human being and the universe, the human species is not able to understand itself as it is not able to understand space.
The use of volume and the absence of pigments is the most expressive medium in this series of canvases, where the shadows change according to the intensity and arrangement of the light source. So we can ensure that when we talk about art, lights and shadows are part of the piece itself. When the color is used in any of the pieces, it is not given to chance but tries through the color to be even more expressive in terms of
the emotions and senses that you want to transmit according to the theme of the canvas.
Individuality will be the only protagonist of interpretation, where common sense and rules give way to intuition and emotions, freedom has no limits.
To immerse yourself in abstract art, you have to break with the concept of what is seen as "real", giving way to a pure language.
Creating the perfect atmosphere for emotions and instinct, which will be unique and individual.
