Activity
Green: Grants & Residencies; Darker blue: Karapetian's writing; Yellow: Exhibitions; Lavender: Talks; Lighter blue: Writing about Karapetian
2023 residency at SOMA, Mexico City
18 May - 1 June
"The Women": Vanderbilt University, lecture & visits
19 September, 2022
Centering the Author: Photograms as Artifacts of Relations, a talk at Penumbra Foundation in conjunction with "OCÉANOS" by Roberto Huarcaya
19 May 2022
Group Exhibition
California Center for the Arts, Escondido
March 26 - May 15 2022
Talk "at" ExpoChicago with Tracy Denean Sharpley-Whiting
Discussion, 10 April 2021
Garden
Online exhibition with the Los Angeles based Ladies Room. 15% of all sales will be donated to benefit 3 urban garden and food organizations for the hungry in Los Angeles: LA Food Policy Council, Ron Finley Project, and Summaeverythang Community Center.
2021 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Master Artist Fellowship
Fellowship
Centering the (Post)Soviet Subject - a lecture at Harvard's Davis Center on agency in representation
Live & Recorded
Archive Machines
Group Exhibition at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
July 30 - Dec 31, 2020
Jurors: Rita Gonzalez, Kerstin Erdmann and Olivian Cha
NYTimes on Performa's "Time Share" Radical Broadcast
"2 Art Gallery Shows to Explore from Home"
Publication (artist's writing)
(2020). The Gunman Gestures. International Journal of Cultural Research.
The Photograph is Always Now
Solo exhibition at Diane Rosenstein Gallery, 831 N. Highland Ave., LA CA, 90038
Feb 8 - March 28, 2020
Expo Chicago
Two-man booth with Eleanor Antin
Navy Pier, Festival Hall | 600 E Grand Ave, Chicago IL 60611
Diane Rosenstein Gallery
September 20 - 22, 2019
Publication (artist's writing)
(2019). The Body Politic: Meyerhold to My Barbarian. German Historical Institute 2019 Bulletin Supplement.
Art and Cake Review, Collective Memory
by Shana Nys Dambrot
Fulbright Award
Russia
March-August 2018
этюды по безопасности / Security Studies
Project originally developed in St. Petersburg Russia on Fulbright Fellowship, with "living seminar" workshop/performance at New Holland Island Pavilion.
"They Work Hard for the Money: Performative Representation of Working-Class Laborers"
(Artist's Writing) Chapter on Uzbek project for book edited by Jennifer Vanderpool and Colin Gardner and published by Palgrave MacMillan
Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection
SFMOMA
6 August, 2022 - 7 May, 2023
San Diego Views
Group exhibition, Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla
May 2 - June 10, 2022
Frontiers in Frontiers, a series of talks with USD's Humanities Center approaching the future of the borderlands from different disciplinary perspectives
Discussions, Feb/March 2022
Essay by Nikki Columbus on performance in Karapetian's work, p. 43
COLA Fellowship Catalog
Interview with Farrah Karapetian about her project, "The Godmother"
COLA Fellowship
Lecture on the network of the Harlem Renaissance
Discussion, 29 April 2021
Juror: Krasnodar Biennial
Jury, Photo Series nominations for the 1st International Biennale of Photography PhotoVisa: Память: Война и мир ("Memory: War and Peace")
Transformations: Living Room -> Flea Market -> Museum -> Art
Group Exhibition, Wende Museum
Leah Ollman on shows shuttered because of the coronavirus.
Artists spend months, even years, working on a gallery show. What if no one sees it?
Time Share
April 2 - May 15: Performa's new Radical Broadcast, an online exhibition that explores live performance’s relationship to video sharing platforms. Karapetian's work, "The Gesture of Safe and Sanitary: ICE (soap)" 2019 featured daily at 18:00.
Global Photography:
A Critical History
Textbook being published by Bloomsbury Academic Publishers, including Karapetian's work.
Override: A Billboard Project
Billboard & Video Projection: The Gesture of Wishing
Expo Chicago Public Programming
September 9-29, 2019
New York Magazine editor's pick, "The Couch Gallery Crawl"
Performa's Radical Broadcast: Time Share is an editor's pick, April 17, 2020
Farrah Karapetian: Collective Memory
solo exhibition, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles
Jan 5 - Feb 24, 2019
Top Ten 2019 LA Shows
Collective Memory listed as one of Los Angeles' top ten shows of 2019 in Artillery Magazine.
The Body Politic: Meyerhold to My Barbarian
Lecture delivered at "Alternative Realities: Utopian Thought in Times of Political Rupture", A two-day conference in Los Angeles organized by The Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies (USC), The Wende Museum, and the Centre for Contemporary History (ZZF), Potsdam.
Direct Contact: Cameraless Photography Now
Eskenazi Museum of Art
16 February - 9 July, 2023
2021 Arts Prospect Network Fellowship at the Ilkhom Theatre, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Fellowship June 2022
LIGHT-guard-HOUSE
Karapetian executes a détournement on the site of an East German guardhouse, turning it into a lighthouse, to welcome and guide rather than exclude those of us in constant motion.
April 10 - October 23, 2022
On Jupiter
An exhibition curated from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection in collaboration with the Center for Studying Structures of Race and the Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo Center for Studying Art at Roanoke College.
28 Jan - 27 March 2022
"Keep the Channel Open" with Mike Sakasegawa
Podcast, April 2021
Archivo Platform 2021 Research Network
Artist's writing on several subjects for Portuguese based international platform
San Diego Views Portfolio
Portfolio of 20 prints by artists working with photography in the San Diego region, produced by Photographs Incorporated, 2020.
Chantel Paul on Farrah Karapetian
essay in Herein Journal, Sept 2020
Artillery Magazine on Performa's Time Share
Shelter-in-Place: Livestreamed performances for quarantine enrichment
Publication (artist's writing)
(2020). Interview with Roxana Marcoci Senior Curator of Photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In Новое искусствознание
Pick of the Week, "The Photograph is Always Now"
The Photograph is Always Now, described as LA's pick of the week in Artillery Magazine.
Photography as an Art: Current trends in the study and history of national schools
Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russia
Farrah Karapetian: presenting, "Decolonizing Photography: How leading institutions in the United States are unraveling 20th century histories and reimagining a photographic future"
May 27-29, 2019
Artforum.com Critic's Pick, Collective Memory
by Annabel Osberg
Constructed: The Contemporary History of the Constructed Image in Photography Since 1990
An academic text being published by Routledge/Taylor & Francis in 2018. With writing on Karapetian by Dan Weiskopf.
Pollock Krasner Award
2017-2018
"The House in and As Contemporary Art"
LA Review of Books
Essay by Farrah Karapetian
"Agency, Anyway: Cotton, Labor, and Creativity in the US and USSR" Davis Center, Harvard University
Spring 2023
“IN LIGHT OF WAR”: Photography, Conflict, and Political Violence
ZeM – Brandenburgisches Zentrum Für Medienwissenschaften, Potsdam
4 June 2022, online
EXPO Chicago
Diane Rosentein
Booth 346
Navy Pier, Chicago
7-10 April 2022
Art and Hope at the End of the Tunnel
Exhibition curated by Edward Goldman at the USC Fisher Museum of Art.
7 Sept - 4 Dec 2021
"Centering the Subject" at Medium Festival of Photography
Artist's lecture, 7 March, 2021
Talk at Laemmle Pasadena after the theatrical release of Mariam Ghani's What We Left Unfinished screening at 7:30
Discussion, 5 August 2021
The Creator Has a Master Plan
Group Exhibition at Diane Rosenstein Gallery, October 30 - December 26, 2020
Co-Host, Art Past Present series
Joes Segal of the Wende Museum and Karapetian co-host this series, investigating art's role in meaning making between past and present - ongoing
"USD Faculty Race to Deliver Medical Equipment to Communities"
Karapetian making emergency ventilators with SDCAP
In Search of Our Times
Fact and Fiction: Art, News, and Propaganda, Zoom Webinar hosted by the Wende Museum and Presented with the Pacific Council on International Policy
15 Things Not to Miss in the Virtual Art World: "Time Share"
Time Share is Artnet Editors Picks’: 15 Things Not to Miss in the Virtual Art World This Week
The Power of Culture
Panel Discussion
Wende Museum
10808 Culver Blvd, Culver City, CA 90230
October 13, 2019
After Post-Photography 2019
European University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Farrah Karapetian: moderator
May 23-25, 2019
Los Angeles Times Review, Collective Memory
by Sharon Mizota
CAA 2019
Discussant, panel: "Contested Site: the Female Body in Contemporary Art"
February 13-16, 2019
The Fabric of Felicity: Group Exhibition
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Fall 2018
"The American Flag In and As Contemporary Art"
LA Review of Books
Essay by Farrah Karapetian