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Hrag Vartanian (Armenian: Հրակ Վարդանեան)(born 1973/1974)[1] is an Armenian-American arts writer,[1] art critic,[2] and art curator.[3] He is the editor-in-chief and co-founder of the arts online magazine, Hyperallergic.

Life and work

Vartanian was born in Aleppo, Syria,[4] raised in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and lives in Brooklyn, New York. His blog-magazine Hyperallergic was founded by Vartanian and his husband Veken Gueyikian in October 2009 [5] as a "forum for serious, playful and radical thinking".[6] Vartanian has contributed to numerous online and print publications including the Art:21 blog,[7] Boldtype, The Brooklyn Rail,[8] Huffington Post,[9] AGBU News Magazine, Ararat Magazine,[10] and NYFA Current.[11] He has guest contributed to Al Jazeera,[12] NPR,[13] ABC,[14] and WNYC.[15][16][17] He was formerly Director of Communications at AGBU, the world's largest Armenian non-profit organization. Vartanian was a staunch supporter of the controversial Hide/Seek exhibit which was censored by the Smithsonian.[18]

Curation

Vartanian has curated numerous exhibitions since the late 1990s. His most recent curatorial project was "Fixed Point Perspective: Ottoman Studio Photography and its Contemporary Legacy" at Minerva Projects in Denver, Colorado.[19] The work in the show was a mix of contemporary and historical, and featured artists Gariné Torossian and Hrair Sarkissian, among others.[20]

Writings

• "Do Bush's Paintings Tell Us Anything About the Former President?" (February 2013)[21]
• "An Experiment in Street Art Criticism" (March 2010)[22]
• "Is Contemporary Architecture a PR Panacea for Autocrats? Western Architectural Ethics & Undemocratic Nations" in Brooklyn Rail (September 2008)[23]
• "The Very Public Life of Street Art" in Brooklyn Rail (May 2008)[24]
• "Peter Sourian" from "Forgotten Bread: First Generation Armenian-American Writers" edited by David Kherdian (Berkeley, CA: Heyday books, 2007)[25]
• "An Imaginary Armenian Canadian Homeland: Gariné Torossian's Dialogue with Egoyan" from Image and Territory: Essays on Atom Egoyan edited by Monique Tschofen and Jennifer Burwell (Waterloo, ON: Wildred Laurier University Press, 2006).[26]
• Bushwick Open Studios featuring artists: Andrew Ohanesian, Tescia Seufferlein, Andrew Cornell Robinson, Richard Martinez.
• "Schwierige Wahrheiten: Die Schriftstellerin Nancy Kricorian (The Will to Resist: A Portrait of Nancy Kricorian)," in Porträt einer Hoffnung Die Armenier edited by Huberta von Voss (Verlag Hans Schiller, 2004). English edition[27]
• "New York Life Recognizes Genocide Era Insurance Claims," AGBU Magazine (April 2004).[28]
• "Nazi Style Wars," The Brooklyn Rail (October 2003).[29]
• "Curating on the Margins," The Brooklyn Rail (Winter 2003).[30]
• "Artist Biographies," The Clement Greenberg Collection (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University, 2001).
• FutureHype/Kitabet, edited by Carmen Donabedian & Hrag Vartanian (Beirut: Haigazian University, 1998).
• "Chine Drive: An Arts & Crafts Community," in The Stuff Dreams are Made of: The Art and Design of Frederick and Louise Coates (Toronto: University of Toronto, 1997).

References

External links

• Official website
• Hyperallergic
• Hrag Vartanian on Twitter
• Hrag Vartanian in The Brooklyn Rail Archives
• ArtCat Archives

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