Fara Karapetyan

Photographer and art historian; holds an MFA from the University of California and a BA from Yale University.
Her works are held in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Fara Karapetyan is a Fulbright Fellow (2018), a recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2017), and a fellow of the California Community Foundation (2014). In 2013, she received a Warhol Arts Writers Grant for her blog Housing Projects, which explores the concept of home in contemporary art and the idea of home as contemporary art.
Recent exhibitions include The Fabric of Felicity, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2018); Synthesize, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville (2017); Light Play: Experiments in Photography, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2017); A Matter of Memory, George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY (2016); The Surface of Things, Houston Center for Photography (2016); and About Time: Photography in a Moment of Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2016).