Marc Balakjian (born in Rayak Lebanon, 1938, died 2017, Muswell Hill, London)[1] was a British printmaker and artist.
He joined the business in 1974[2] and went on to work with some of the most important contemporary British artists, including Frank Auerbach, Lucian Freud, Ken Kiff, R. B. Kitaj, Leon Kossoff, William Turnbull and Kim Lim.
[1][2] He married the founder and collaborator of Studio Prints, Dorothea Wight, in 1973.
They are also in prominent collections in the US, Germany, France, Netherlands, Poland, Belgium, Italy, Norway, Ireland and Canada.
[1] After studying painting at Hammersmith College of Art from 1968 to 1971, Balajian earned a postgraduate degree in printmaking at the Slade School of Fine Art from 1971 to 1973.