Curriculum Vitae
Born 1987 in Armenia
Solo Exhibitions
Selected Group Exhibitions
Exhibitions & Film screening Plastisapiens
Conferences/ Talks/ Presentations / Jury duties
EducatioN
Professional experience
Teaching & Research
Grants / Awards
RECIDENCIES
- 2023
Plastisapiens Film and a physical installation, six months, The Biosphere, Montreal, Canada
- 2021
Nids de Poule, Centre Elgar, Nuns Island, Montreal, Canada
Nids de Poule, Maison de la culture Verdun, Montreal, Canada
- 2018
Green Lung, Beita Gallery, Curated by Avital Naor Wexler, Jerusalem
Anything you can Imagine, Blue Sea Lake Gallery, Curated by Sylvie Gregoire. Qc, Canada
2024
Tidelines, collective exhibition with Kuh Del Rosario & Cecilia Mckinnon, Fofa Gallery, Montreal
Foire Plural, Loto Quebec booth, curated by Sarah Kitzy, Montreal
- 2023
Artch Montreal Place Ville Marie, Montreal
User’s manual for an invisible home, Centre Skol, Montreal
- 2022
- L’érosion de la scène, Galerie Hugues Charbonneau, Montréal, Canada
- 2021
Fossilisation, Mutek Festival, Montreal, Canada
Being With, SMIFF Film Festival, Seoul, Korea
- 2020
Fossilisation, L'image-matière, curated by Géraldine Gomez, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Being With, curated by Ada Ortega, Frederiksberg Bibliotek, Denmark
- 2019
The museum of Future Fossils, University of London Ontario, Canada
Maureen IV, Yves Laroche Gallery, Montréal, QC
Being with, 5 channel video installation, Centre Phi, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice, Italy
Speculating Futures, video installation, Nuit Blanche, Centre Phi, Montréal, Canada
- 2023 -2024
- Shanghai International Film festival
Plastic Kitchen Lab, IDFA doclab, official competition in Immersive non-fiction, Amsterdam
MEET digital culture center, Milano, Italy
The national museum of cinema, Torino, Italy
Phillip & Patricia Frost Museum of Science, Miami, USA
IDFA Film Festival, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Phi Center, Montreal, Canada
Tribeca Film Festival, International premier, New York City
Chelsea film festival, New York City
2023 Jury member at The International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (IDFA)
2022 The making of Plastisapiens, working in VR with Edith Jorisch at MEET digital culture center, Milano, Italy
2022 Artist talk at IDFA doclab, Eating the Metaverse, Amsterdam
2022 speaker, Maillage Numérique, digital art conference, Longueuil, QC, Canada
2021 Image Matiere, Presentation, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2020 HTML Festival, Ada X, Round Table speaker, Montreal, QC.
2020 Sympoyetic, Hexagram, Presentation and demonstration, Montreal, QC.
2019 Electric Dreams Festival, Presentation, Adelaide, Australia
2018 Beita Gallery, Artist Talk, Jerusalem
MFA studio Arts, Concordia University, Montréal, QC
DEP (collage diploma) Social Entrepreneurship SAJE, Montreal, QC.
BA, Philosophy & Art History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
2020-2022 Tutorial Leader, Keywords Reading the Arts Across the Disciplines (FFAR250), Concordia University
2019 -2020 Teacher Assistant to Intermedia class with Nadia Myre, Concordia University
2019 Research Assistant to Shauna Jansen, Pulse Performative Urbanism, Concordia University
2018-2019 Teacher Assistant to Sarah Nance, Concordia University
2011-2013 Teacher for Modern and Postmodern Art, IASA The Israeli Art and Science Academy, Jerusalem
2024
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Development award for Documentary film - Smog, Dust and Toxic Machismo
2023
Numix Prize for best XR experience, Montreal, QC
NewImages Festival Impact award, Paris, France
Cinequest Festival, best innovation VR, California, USA
Guanajuato International Film Festival. Best Technical Experience
Canada Council for The Arts, Concept and Realization Grant for Plastic Kitchen Lab
Canada Council for The Arts, Research-Creation Grant for Fruit Opera
2022
IDFA, special jury award for New Creative Technology Amsterdam, NL.
Tribeca film festival, world premiere, NYC, USA.
2021
Scientific Master’s research scholarship,The Government of Quebec (FRQSC).
Conseil des arts de Montréal, Research and development Grant for Fruit Opera
Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec, Research Creation Grant for Bread Salt & Water
2020
Canada Council for The Arts, Research-Creation Grant for Bread Salt & Water
National Film Board of Canada, Production Grant
Canada Council for The Arts, Travel Grant for Plastisapiens
2019
Electric Dreams Festival, travel Grant Adelaide, Australia
Sustainability Research Award, Sustainability Action Fund, Concordia University
Concordia University Graduate Travel Award
Eric St. Pierre Sustainability Award, Concordia University
2018
Power corporation of Canada, Graduate Fellowship, Concordia University
2023 ‘Fermentation Science Fiction’, Verticale artist run center, Laval.
2022-23 Le Chantier at L'imprimerie centre d’artistes, 6 months residency
2021 Maison de La culture, Verdun, QC.
2020 Referencing The Digital, 4th space, Concordia University
2019 The Museum of Future Fossils, research residency, Western University, Ontario and New York University
2018 Beita Gallery Jerusalem, Palestine, Israel
2017 Blue Sea, Paper-making residency, QC.