Danielle Andrea Krikorian is a Lebanese art historian and artist whose research and practice explore modern and contemporary art from Lebanon and the wider Arab world, with particular interests in abstraction, memory, displacement and decolonial aesthetics.
She is Lecturer in Art History at Newcastle University and completed an AHRC/Midlands4Cities-funded PhD at the University of Birmingham in 2026 on Lebanese women artists and decolonial aesthetics.
Her writing includes “Affective Rematriation: Mounira Al Solh” in Tate Papers, “Displacement and Abstract Art” in Memory, Migration, Relationality, and “Shaping Space: Morphologies and Transitions in the Umayyad madīna ‘Anjar” in Dār Journal. In 2026, she received a BRISMES Early Career Development Scholarship for her research on Lebanon–Palestine solidarity in Beirut print culture, and the Khamseen Student Presentation Prize for “When Languages Meet on the Page: Coptic, Arabic, and Ritual Structure in a Church Consecration Manuscript.”
Her artistic practice draws on the visual and devotional cultures of Lebanon and the Levant, exploring memory, inheritance, displacement and Christian–Islamic traditions. Her work has been exhibited at CUB Gallery in Beirut, P21 Gallery in London and MIAH Foundation in Birmingham.