Born in Beirut in 1973, Raffi Yedalian is a Lebanese Armenian figurative painter and sculptor. Yedalian studied Etching at the Academie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts, ALBA, and further studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Fine Art Toros Roslin.

His concern with the human condition is represented as an asymmetrical balance, inspired by challenges of human life and survival, as well as the psychological deconstruction of the human. This preoccupation finds expression through stylistic and thematic dualities, symbolising the continual battle between confinement and freedom. Yedalian’s paintings are both emotional and cold, expressive and quiet, his oeuvre is complex beyond its simplicity.

• He was awarded the “Lorenzo il Magnifico” Gold Medal at the XII Florence Biennale 2019 for his painting installation “Reflection of an Enigmatic Mind” dedicated to the fifth centenary of Leonardo Da Vinci’s death.
• In 2012, H.H. Pope Benedict XVI inaugurated and blessed his monument in bronze of “Hagop Meghabard”, and retained a miniature replica of the monument in his collection in Vatican City.
• In 2015, Yedalian presented to H.H. Pope Francis his painting of “Blessed Ignatius Maloyan” at the Historical Holy Mass dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, at St. Peter’s Basilica. This was later reproduced as a Limited Edition stamp issued in 2015 by the Philatelic and Numismatic Office of the Vatican City State.