I am a transdisciplinary conceptual artist whose works deal with historical memory.
I am particularly interested in the documentation of extinction in relation to species and cultures.
I work in painting, film, sculpture, interventions, and writing.

N E V D O N J A M G O C H I A N
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Art Experience

2023                            Film screened at the Curzon Theatre, London, that I wrote and directed
2022                            Film screened at Lincoln Center, NYC I wrote and directed- Stuck
2019                            Group Show, DWG Vernissage, Dakar, Senegal
2017                            Thesis Exhibition, SCAD, “Bagradian Museum”
2016                            Solo Exhibition, “Ozymandias” H Gallery Bangkok, Thailand
2015                            Visiting artist and lecturer, ACMIS conference, Guangzhou, China
2015                            Artist in Residence, maumau works, Istanbul, Turkey Installation/ film “Dogs of Constantinople”
2014                            Solo Exhibition, National Museum of Modern Art, Yerevan, Armenia “Gluttony” Performance, sculpture, and paintings
2014                            Artist in Residence, Arts and Cultural Studies Laboratory, Yerevan, Armenia July/ August
2014                            Winner art contest, Walden3 Gallery, Seattle, USA
2013- present              Freelance arts writer for art publications including Hyperallergic, artcore, and Artpulse, I focus on political art
2013- present              Public art  Various cities, so far in Yerevan, Armenia; Bangkok, Thailand; Taipei, Taiwan; Guangzhou, China; Seattle, USA, Dakar, Senegal, and Istanbul, Turkey “Ozymandius,” Installation, Performance
2009                            Solo Show, Frankfurt International School Frankfurt, Germany “Kitsch”
2007                            Solo Show, American Embassy School Gallery, New Delhi, India “The Junkyard of History”
2004                            Solo Show, ETG, Seattle, USA “CCCP Monster”
2004                            Group Show, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA “101 Ways to Remove a President from Power”
2003                            Solo Show, Mars Gallery, Seattle, USA “Never Made it”
2003                            Solo Show, ETG, Seattle, USA “Failed Ambition,”
2003                            Group Show, Vital 5 Gallery, Seattle USA “The Immortality Clinic”  

Education

2017                            MFA, Painting at the Savannah College of Art and Design, USA
2011                            Studied painting, Gage Academy of Fine Arts, Seattle, USA
2005                            MIT, Seattle University, Seattle, USA
1999                            Bachelor of Arts, University of Washington, Seattle, USA

Publications

1994- Present              Il Giornale dell'Arte, Hyperallergic, ArtPulse, News-Europe, Culture Crime News,  among others  

Work

2019-2022                   International School of Kuala Lumpur, Ceramics, Art Instructor, Malaysia
2017-2019                   International School of Dakar, Instructor, Art Chair, Senegal
2015-2017                   Sabbatical to finish MFA/ exhibits, various countries, Graduate  teaching SCAD
2011-2015                   International School Bangkok, Instructor, Humanities Chair, Thailand
2007-2011                   Frankfurt International School, Instructor, Year head, Germany
2005-2007                  American Embassy School, Instructor, Humanities Chair, India
2001- 2005                 TAF/ Gates Foundation Curriculum developer Seattle, USA­
1999-2001                   New York Times Researcher, supporting writer, USA