Mekhitar Garabedian (born 1977, Aleppo, Syria) lives and works in Ghent, Belgium.

Mekhitar Garabedian uses various media such as drawings, video, photography and installations. His work often starts from his experience as a migrant and plays on the humour and poetic qualities found between languages, cultures and histories. Just as his 'diasporic' identity is layered, his work echoes with a multitude of references from literature, music, philosophy and visual art.

Garabedian is currently at KASK/School of Arts, Ghent, as a postdoctoral researcher. He is represented by Baronian Xippas, Brussels.

Garabedian had solo exhibitions at Bozar, Centre of Fine Arts, Brussels, 2015, S.M.A.K., Ghent, 2011, KIOSK, Ghent, 2010. His work has been shown at group exhibitions such as: The Collection (1), Highlights for a Future, S.M.A.K., Ghent, 2019, Shaping Light, CAB, Brussels, 2018, Art and Alphabet, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2017, The Absent Museum, Wiels, 2017, Kum Kapi, Gulbenkian Museum, 2016, Armenity/Hayoutioun, National Pavilion of The Republic of Armenia, Venice Biennale 2015, Between the Pessimism of the Intellect and the Optimism of the Will, Thessaloniki Biennale 2015, Here and Elsewhere, New Museum, 2014, ...