Karen Babayan is based in Cumbria, North West
Themes of migration, displacement and diaspora are explored using a multidisciplinary and exploratory approach, addressed from a position that draws upon image-making, performative works and fictionalised text. Using personal experience and family history as a principal resource, the resulting artwork is responsive, creative and provocative, exploring the notion of ‘authenticity’ through facets of identity and dislocation.
Qualifications and training
- 1990 MA Fine Art, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham
Solo exhibitions
- 2002 Objects of Desire, The Hutchinson Art Gallery, Bishop Auckland
- 1997 Kookoo, Hardware Gallery, London
- 1996 Lavashak & Other Stories, Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield
- 1995 Achkov Chudank, Yervand Kotchar Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
Group exhibitions
- 2006 ‘Layered Lives’ Iranian Armenian Artists, Brunei Gallery, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London
Public commissions
- 1997 Wall, floor & Ceiling designs for Cardiac Wards & Main Entrance, Jubilee Building, Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds
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