Peggy Hinaekian

• Hinaekian lives and works in California, Florida and Switzerland

  Education

  Graduate of the Italian Academy of Art “Leonardo da Vinci”, Rome

  History of Art, McGill University, Montreal

  Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris

  Centre for Contemporary Prints, Geneva, Switzerland

   

  Hinaekian’s work consists of oils and acrylics on canvas and on paper and monotypes on paper. She has also done limited edition, signed and numbered etchings notably for Christie’s Contemporary Art, London, Edition de Francony, Nice and Studio Arco of Rome.

  She had a career as a fashion designer in Boston and Manhattan before pursuing art as a profession. She is truly an international artist as she has exhibited extensively in Switzerland, France, England, Spain, Germany, Italy, Norway, Austria, Japan, Hong Kong, Kuwait, Canada, South Africa and the United States.

  Her work can be found in numerous corporate and private collections such as:

   

  Athanaeum Art and Music Library, La Jolla, California

  National Art Library, Paris

  Contemporary Print Museum, Geneva

  Canton of Geneva Art Collection, Switzerland

  Dupont De Nemours International headquarters, Switzerland

  United Nations Art collection, Switzerland

  Migros Art Collection, Zurich

  Nestle International, Switzerland

  Barclays Bank, England

  UBS, Switzerland

  Credit Suisse Switzerland

  Popular Bank of Switzerland

  CBI Private Banking, Switzerland

  Deutsch Bank, Germany

  Society of Swiss Bankers, Switzerland

  Geneva University Hospital, Switzerland

  Meyrin Hospital, Switzerland

  Firmenich International, Switzerland and New York

  Cogecot, Switzerland

  Yara International, Norway

  Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Switzerland

  The Queen of Norway

  Her Majesty Empress Farah Diba of Iran

   

  She has gallery representations in the United States (Florida and California), Switzerland, England Austria and Germany.

   

  Interviews

  By Nancy Brockoven in Artculturelajolla.com Newsletter, 2009.

  Sun Sentinel, Florida

  Gstaad life magazine, Switzerland

  Armenian News magazine, Paris and Los Angeles

  La Jolla Light newspaper, La Jolla, California

  Numerous write-ups in magazines and newspapers in Europe.

   

  Radio Interviews: Voice of America; Radio 74, Radio Lac

   

  Cover illustrations of books:

  This Watery World: Humans and the Sea, Ed. Nandita Batra and Vartan Messier,

  Of Mice and Men, Ed. Vartan Messier and Nandita Batra. Cambridge

  Scholars Publishing, Newcastle, U.K., 2008.

  Besinnung und Einsicht, Ed. Strom-Verlag, Zurich, 1981(in German)