FARRAH KARAPETIAN

Farrah Karapetian is an artist and writer based in California whose work across mediums privileges the agency of the individual in moments of profound change. Her work is in collections such as the J. Paul Getty Museum, LACMA, and SFMOMA, and has garnered support from the Pollock Krasner Foundation and the Fulbright, among other sources. It's been discussed in such publications as Artforum and Art in America. Her own writing has been published widely, from The Brooklyn Rail to The Los Angeles Review of Books, and has earned a Warhol Arts Writers Grant. She holds a BA from Yale (2000) and UCLA (2008) and is an associate professor at USD – faculty with the Dept. of Art, Architecture + Art History as well as with Africana Studies. She speaks often about her research: at Harvard, Princeton, Vanderbilt, and as far afield as SOMA in Mexico City, Potsdam’s Brandenburgisches Zentrum Für Medienwissenschaften, and the Museum of the History of Photography in St. Petersburg, Russia. Residencies and collaborations in Mexico, Uzbekistan, and Colombia are part of her holistic creative practice, which includes in each case situated research, co-creation through workshopping, subject-facing exhibitions, and publishing. She encourages transboundary practices that use doubt, curiosity, and nuance to combat monolithic personal or political certainty and elide institutional histories.