Farrah Karapetian (American, born )

Timeline

1978
born in California
1995
Telluride Association Summer Program, Annapolis, Maryland
1999
Sudler Fellowship, New Haven, CT
1999
Richter Fellowship, Spain, Morocco
1996–2000
B.A. (Fine Art, concentration: Photography), Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
2000
Sudler Fellowship, New Haven, CT
2007
Lillian Levinson Scholarship, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Departmental Travel Grant, Hiroshima, Japan
2007
Corine Tyler Walker Prize, Los Angeles, CA
2006–2008
M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Hoyt Scholarship, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency Grant, New York, NY

Exhibitions

2022
Farrah Karapetian Selected Exhibitions in 2022:
Transparencies, Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY (solo exhibition)
2020
Farrah Karapetian Selected Exhibitions in 2020:
Lightguardhouse, Wende Museum, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)
The Photograph is Always Now, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)
Transformations: Living Room -> Flea Market -> Museum -> Art, Wende Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Farrah Karapetian Selected Exhibitions in 2019:
Collective Memory, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)
2018
Farrah Karapetian Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
The Fabric of Felicity, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2017
Farrah Karapetian Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
Building Dwelling Thinking, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)
Synthesize, MOCA Jacksonville, FL
Light Play: Experiments in Photography, 1970 to the Present, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, catalogue
2016
Farrah Karapetian Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Relief, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)
The Surface of Things, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
A Matter of Memory, Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY
About Time: Photography in a Moment of Change, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Life During Wartime, Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Artistic Interpretations of the Cold War, Wende Museum and Archive of the Cold War, Los Angeles, CA
SKIN, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Farrah Karapetian Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Farrah Karapetian, Danziger Gallery, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Stagecraft, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)
2014
Farrah Karapetian Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Prone Position, Solo public project for Freeway Studies #2, Inside the Quad, OTIS Ben Maltz Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)
The Wall in Our Heads: American Artists and the Berlin Wall, Goethe Institut, Washington DC
The Fifth Wall, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Prep School: Prepper & Survivalist Ideologies and Utopian/Dystopian Visions, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Trouble With the Index, California Museum of Photography at UCR ARTSblock, Riverside, CA
2013
Rogue Wave: 2013 (15 Artists From Los Angeles), L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
2013
California-Pacific Triennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2013
The Black Mirror, curated by James Welling and Diane Rosenstein, Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles
2013
Solo project, Flint Public Art Project, Flint, MI
2012
Grey Full, Group Exhibition curated by Geoffrey Young, Jeff Bailey Gallery, NY, NY
2012
Don’t the Sun look Angry at Me: pictures & objects from Los Angeles now, Group Exhibition, Royale Project, Indian Wells, CA, 2012
2012
Representation3, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2012
Los Angeles Times, Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2012
Doppelganger, group exhibition curated by Allen Tombello, Arena 1, Santa Monica, CA
2011
Shadowbox Performance: An Inversion of the Photogram process, Kamikaze Exhibit curated by H.K. Zamani, PØST, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2011
Major Grey, group exhibition, Geoffrey Young, Great Barrington, MA
2011
Accessory to Protest, LEADAPRON, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2010
Session_7_Words, group exhibition with Am Nuden Da; publication, Krabbesholm FourBoxes Gallery, Denmark
2010
Broken Windows Theory, Kantor Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Flirtation, Love, Passion, Hate, Separation, group Kamikaze Exhibit curated by Calvin Phelps, PØST, Los Angeles, CA
2010
OPEN HOUSE | STATE SECRETS, exhibition at the Pacific Design Center with Mitch McEwen and B.E.A.S.T., Superfront, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Lovingly, Rose Peebles, group exhibition curated by Kim Schoen; publication, Material Press, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Exhibition with RJ Messineo through Lucas Michaels and Eve Fowler’s Arist Curated Projects, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2010
Border Art Biennial 2010, juried by Rita Gonzalez and Itala Schmelz; publication, El Paso Museum of Art and Centro Cultural Paso del Norte, El Paso, TX, and Juárez, MX
2009
Perception as Object, group exhibition, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Tragic Muse, Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2009
Lightyear, Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2009
Session_7_Words, group exhibition, Am Nuden Da, London, England
2009
Excess | Liquidity, exhibit with X | Atelier at the Pacific Design Center, Superfront LA, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Shipping Container, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2008
Something About Rooms and Walls, group exhibition curated by Mitch Mcewen, Superfront, Brooklyn, New York
2008
MFA exhibition, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
2008
LA Confidentiel, group exhibition curated by Sandra Patron and Allyson Spellacy, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Parc Saint-Léger, France
2008
Imaginary Thing, group exhibition curated by Peter Eleey, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2008
Int./Ext., Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA (solo)
2005
Critics’ Picks, group exhibition curated by Lilly Wei and Megan Heuer, Black & White Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2002
New Photography, group exhibition, SFMOMA Artist's Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000
Thesis Exhibition, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Public Collections

J. Paul Getty Museum
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Flint Public Art Project, Flint, MI
Sir Elton John Collection, London, UK
Wende Museum & Archive of the Cold War, Los Angeles, CA
English (US)

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