Education

1995–2000 Sculpture, Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts, Yerevan, Armenia
1997–1998 Photography, photography-training project of Zaven Khachikyan
2001–2006 Ceramic Arts, Yerevan Art College of P. Terlemezyan, Yerevan, Armenia

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 Ordinary, Johannissyan Institute, Yerevan, Armenia / Curated by Nare Sahakyan
2023 AKNeye Project
2020 Armenia Art Fair, Yerevan, Armenia / Curated by Harutyun Simonyan
Shipwreck, Dalan Art Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia / Curated by Eva Khachatryan
2018 Armenia Art Fair, Yerevan, Armenia / Curated by Eva Khachatryan
EXTENSION.AM: A Geographic Experience, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2016 Friendship Becomes Art, ArtBasis, Yerevan, Armenia / Curated by Eva Khachatryan
2015 Overcoming the Everydayness, Lyuda Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia / Curated by Eva Khachatryan
2014 Future in the Past, Galents Museum, Yerevan, Armenia / Curated by Vahram Aghasyan
Step Between Transforming and Forming, Artists' Union of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia / Curated by Arevik Arevshatyan
5 Colors of Pop Art, Yerevan, Armenia / Curated by Anna Gregorian
2013 Emancipate the Time, ACCEA, Festival of Alternative Art, Yerevan, Armenia / Curated by Sona Abgaryan
2011 Manuals: Subjects of New Universality, Illuminations: 54th International Venice Art Biennale, Venice, Italy / Curated by Vardan Azatyan, Nazareth Karoyan, Ruben Arevshatyan
2008 Ghost Archives, IX Gyumri International Biennial, Gyumri, Armenia / Curated by Anna Barseghian, Isabella Papaloizos
International Public Art Symposium, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan / Curated by Kendal Henri, Shaarbek Amankul, Arseny Sergeyev
Coming to You to Not Be With You, Self-Mapping: Queering the City, Yerevan, Armenia / WOW Collective
Gender Trouble, Video screening of public performance, Yerevan, Armenia / Curated by Susanna Gyulamiryan
2007 Photonic Moments III, Ljubljana, Slovenia / Curated by Angela Harutyunyan
Musée d’art moderne de Saint-Étienne Métropole, Paris, France / Curated by Anna Barseghian
2006 Construit/Build, Paris, France / Curated by Alfred Gharapetian

Festiva <est ouest> / Die, France / Curated by Vardan Azatyan)
2005 Women’s Art Exhibition, Artists' Union of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia / Curated by Arevik Arevshatyan
Festival Culturescapes Armenien, Bern, Switzerland / Curated by Anna Barseghian
Euro Renovation, ACCEA, Yerevan, Armenia / Curated by Susanna Gulamiryan
2004 Public Media Space, ACCEA, Yerevan, Armenia / Curated by Angela Harutyunyan
2003 Focus Armenia Sachsen-Anhalt, Ashersleben, Halle, and Magdeburg, Germany / Curated by Ines Janet Engelmann
Adieu Parajanov, Kunsthalle Project Space, Vienna, Austria / Curated by Hedwig Saxenhuber, Georg Scholhammer
2002 ACCEA in conjunction with La Biennale di Venezia, Yerevan, Armenia / Curated by Eduard Balassanian
2001 Transforms, International action, installation (co-author: A. Melkonyan), Trieste, Italy / Curated by Emanuela De Cecco, Roberto Pinto
2000 The Third Way, II Gyumri International Biennial, Gyumri, Armenia / Curated by Vazgen Pahlavuni
Manifesta 3, Ljubljana, Slovenia / Curated by Ruben Arevshatyan
1999 Shut City, Hay Art Cultural Center, Yerevan, Armenia (Co-author: Alexander Melkonyan) / Curated by Narine Zolyan, Harutyun Zulumyan

Bibliography

Books & Publications

  • MOMA, Post Notes on Art in Global Context, Performative Gestures and Limits of Resistance in Armenian Contemporary Art (1987–2008), Part III, Angela Harutyunyan, 2024
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  • A Companion to Contemporary Art in a Global Framework, Jane Chin Davidson, Amelia Jones, Dana Arnold, 2023
    Publisher link

  • ILLUMInations: 54th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Editor: Bice Curiger, 2011

  • Photonic Moments III: Month of Photography, Editor: Angela Harutyunyan, 2007
    Event archive

  • Manifesta 3, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2000
    Reference link

  • Creative Synthesis, Arevik Arevshatyan, 2005

  • Adieu Parajanov: Contemporary Art from Armenia, Editors: Hedwig Saxenhuber, Georg Schölhammer, 2003

  • Imprint of Creation: International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Editors: Vazgen Pahlavuni, Azat Sargsyan, 2002

  • Shut City, HayArt Center of Contemporary Art, Editors: N. Zolyan, H. Zulumyan, 1999

Online Features & Collections

  • Armenia Art Fair: Borders, Politics, and the Body – Open Space Armenia Art Fair
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  • Imago Mundi Collection
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  • Extension.am: Geographical Experience (MutualArt)
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  • ILLUMInations: 54th International Art Exhibition – Venice Biennale, 2011
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  • Gender Trouble: International Exhibition on Gender and Art, 2008
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  • Exhibiting “Armenian” Nudity: A Decolonial Approach to Art History
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  • Apart We Are Together: Adelaide International Art Exhibition, 2010
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  • Rediscovering the Body: The Painful Birth of Post-Soviet Performance Art
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  • AKNeye Project: Contemporary Art Initiative
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