Sonia Balassanian Explained
| Sonia Balassanian |
| Native Name: | سونیا بالاسانیان
Սոնյա Պալասանյան |
| Native Name Lang: | fa |
| Other Names: | Sonia Amirian Balassanian,
Sonia Balasanian-Amirian,
Sonia Palasanean,
Sonia Amirean |
| Birth Name: | Sonia Amirian |
| Birth Place: | Arak, Pahlavi Iran |
| Alma Mater: | Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Pratt Institute |
| Occupation: | Artist, curator |
| Known For: | Painting |
| Spouse: | Edward Balassanian |
Sonia Balassanian (; born 1942) née Sonia Amirian, is an Iranian-born painter, sculptor, and curator, of Armenian ethnicity.[1] She co-founded the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art.[2] [3] Balassanian lives in New York City and Yerevan.
Biography
Sonia Balassanian was born in 1942 in Arak, Pahlavi Iran.[4] In 1966, she emigrated to the United States.[5] Balassanian attended the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, where she received a BA degree (1970); and Pratt Institute, where she received a MFA degree (1978).
In her early career she worked in installation art with sculptural elements, and later she worked in video art. She also worked on theater set design in New York City.[6] [7] In 1983, she was in the group exhibition, "Seven Women–Image Impact" at MoMA PS1, other artists included in the exhibition were Ana Mendieta, Anne Pitrone, Judy Rifka, Dena Shottenkirk, Susan Rothenberg, and Mimi Smith.[8] [9] [10]
In 1992, she and her husband Edward Balassanian co-founded the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art .[11] The center got its start with two seminal exhibitions, "The Show of the Nine" or "9" (1992), and "Identification" (1993).[12]
Her work is found in the museum collection at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art. She has artist files at the Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library.[13]
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Notes and References
- Web site: 2015-12-02 . بالاسانیان: هیچ هنری نیست که تا حدی انتزاعی نباشد / نقاش مقیم آمریکا مىگوید هیچگاه جلای وطن نکرده . Balasanian: There is no art that is not abstract to some extent / the painter living in America says that he has never left his homeland . https://web.archive.org/web/20151202090801/http://www.honaronline.ir/Pages/News-48305.aspx . 2015-12-02 . 2022-12-21 . honaronline.ir . fa.
- News: Zach . Elizabeth . 2013-10-16 . A Mainstream Home for Alternative Art in Armenia . en-US . . 2022-12-19 . 0362-4331.
- Book: Kassabian, Anahid . Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity . March 2013 . University of California Press . 978-0-520-27515-7 . 24 . en.
- Book: Keshmirshekan, Hamid . Different Sames: New Perspectives in Contemporary Iranian Art . Irving . Mark . Downey . Anthony . 2009 . Thames & Hudson . 978-0-500-97697-5 . 103 . en.
- Book: McCabe, Cynthia Jaffee . The American Experience: Contemporary Immigrant Artists . Tuan . Yi-fu . Kessner . Thomas . 1985 . Independent Curators Incorporated . 978-0-916365-16-5 . 93 . en.
- Book: Willis, John . Theatre World 1990-1991 . 2000-02-01 . Hal Leonard Corporation . 978-1-55783-126-2 . 76 . en.
- Book: The New York Times Theater Reviews . 1991 . New York Times & Arno Press . 978-0-8153-0643-6 . 104 . en.
- Book: LAB. 07: arte, deshonra y violencia en el contexto iberoamericano . 2007 . Centro Cultural de España . Centro Cultural de España (Montevideo, Uruguay) . es.
- Book: Disinformation: The Manufacture of Consent, March 2-March 30, 1985 . 1984 . Alternative Museum . Alternative Museum (New York, N.Y.) . 978-0-932075-01-7 . 8 . en.
- Book: Sirmans, Franklin . NeoHooDoo: Art for a Forgotten Faith . 2008 . Menil Collection . 978-0-300-13418-6 . 138 . en.
- Book: Voss, Julia . Why Art Criticism? A Reader . Söntgen . Beate . 2022-04-20 . Hatje Cantz Verlag . 978-3-7757-5093-6 . 328 . en.
- Book: Harutyunyan, Angela . The political aesthetics of the Armenian avant-garde: The journey of the 'painterly real', 1987–2004 . 2017-03-17 . Manchester University Press . 978-1-5261-1439-6 . en.
- Web site: Palasanean, Sonia 1942- . 2022-12-21 . Art & Artists Files in the Smithsonian Libraries' Collections.
