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Arpi Adamyan (b. 1985) is a multimedia artist based in New York and Yerevan.

After receiving her first MFA from Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts in 2007, Adamyan received her second MFA degree from Parsons School of Design at The New School in 2019. In 2007 she co-founded Queering Yerevan Collective with fellow artists, writers, curators and activists. Initially a painter, Adamyan exhibited at the Armenian Contemporary Experimental Art Center on a consistent basis before co-curating public exhibitions as part of the QY Collective. There, she experimented with video art, graphic art and group performances which informed Adamyan’s recent multimedia installations. From 2006-2009, Adamyan was a board member of the Utopiana Swiss Armenian cultural organization.

Arpi Adamyan creates queer-feminist worlds. The complex realities she builds are charged with historical citations and speculations of a futuristic biotechnological realm. In her installations she combines hand made porcelain and clay objects with digital works on screens to create one seamless world.