Yahel Chirinian is a French contemporary artist born in Avignon, France, in 1970. She grew up in Avignon and Rome. She later relocated to India, where she works and lives since 2000. Yahel’s formative years were spent exposed to the worlds of theatre, contemporary dance, literature and the arts where travels served as her backdrop of intellectual milieu. She studied architecture and art in Paris, Rome, and Tokyo. Yahel opened the Monsoon Heritage design studio in Goa, India in 2000.