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Education
2014-2016 University of California, San Diego
Grants & Awards
2016 - Class Project Grant
2016- Departmental Honors
2015 - Russell Grant
2010 - Excellence in Visual Arts
Exhibitions & Festivals
2014- "Colorful Babes"
2016 - "Disoriented" - Solo Exhibition
2016- University Art Gallery
Publications
2016 - "Triton to Watch: Arpie Shekoyan"
Arpie Shekoyan
Los Angeles, CA
Shekoyan works primarily in 2-dimensional painting and collage making. Upon pursuing her Studio Art degree at the University of California, San Diego, her work has centered around topics such as "Orientalism" and the colonial gaze. Influenced by authors such as Edward Said, she appropriates influential works accomplished during Romantic Era by artists such as Delacroix. By use of craft materials as a way to allude to high and low art, Shekoyan establishes a dialogue between the East and West, and abstracting these private spaces that are often exotified by the Western gaze. It is also a way for her to navigate through lack of cultural records and history due to the diaspora and dispossession of land and heritage.
