Farrah Karapetian

Farrah Karapetian is based in southern California and works globally through fellowships such as the Fulbright, the Pollock Krasner, and the Warhol Writers Grant to unpack default constructs in photography and representation at large. Her artwork is collected by the J. Paul Getty Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among other institutions, and has been discussed in Artforum, Art in America, and textbooks such as Global Photography: A Critical History (Routledge, 2020). Exhibitions include those at the Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia; the Bienalsur in Cúcuta, Colombia; and the Border Art Biennial in Texas and Mexico. Her writing has been published broadly, from The Brooklyn Rail to The Los Angeles Review of Books. With a BA from Yale University and an MFA from UCLA, she is an Associate Professor at USD in the Department of Art, Architecture + Art History as well as Africana Studies.