About

Jeanette Bayoumi is a figurative painter based in Paris. After a legal career spanning nearly a decade, she relocated from New York to Paris to pursue her art full time.

Through her paintings she explores the tension between imposed narratives and internally discovered truth. Her practice centers on unraveling identities shaped by culture, family, tradition, and social expectation in order to arrive at a more self-determined sense of self.

She was raised in a dual-religion household blending American, Lebanese, and Egyptian traditions. Her work examines identity as something first inherited, then consciously redefined. Storytelling and cultural symbolism, particularly food and hands, are central in her work. This, along with a limited color palette on each painting provides frameworks through which she guides perception. Blending realism with surreal elements, her compositions reflect the layered and sometimes disorienting nature of self-exploration.