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