Jackie Kazarian

Jackie Kazarian , is an American painter, video artist, and installation artist of Armenian descent.

Life

Ancestors Kazarian's grandfathers, Abram Bedrosian (Adana) and Kazar Kazarian (Tadem), both left Western Armenia before 1915. They were from Sivas, Marash, Tadem and Adana. Kazarian's grandmother was Mariam Betlezian, and her father was a linguist professor and was taken and killed by Ottoman soldiers. The work was partly inspired by Picasso's "Guernica." The needle lace used in the painting and the praying hands at the base of the painting is from Kazarian's grandmother, Mariam Betlezian, who was from Marash. The work will be displayed for the first time in Chicago's Mana Contemporary from April 17 to May 29. 2012 Abraçades (Hugs), Bellvitge Art, Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain 2010 Expect Nothing: New Works by Jackie Kazarian, Chicago Cultural Center Jackie Kazarian, Aleppo Women’s Art Festival Jackie Kazarian: breath, Stubbs, Chicago Jackie Kazarian, The Artist Project, Artropolis, Chicago 2007 Jackie Kazarian, The Artist Project, Artropolis, Chicago 2006 Focus 5, Illinois State Museum Gallery, Chicago Gebben Gray Gallery, Fennville, MI 2004 Don't Blink, Three Arts Club, Chicago 1998 From Mariam's kitchen—the wallpaper series, Boyadjian Gallery, AGBU Alex Manoogian Center, Pasadena, California 1996 Jackie Kazarian, The Garden Wall Papers, Klein Art Works, Chicago 1994 Klein Art Works, Chicago 1993 55 Mercer, New York City Klein Art Works, Chicago 1991 Klein Art Works, Chicago 1935 Gallery, Chicago

Awards 2010 Visiting Artist, United States Embassy, Damascus, Syria 2008 Fellowship, Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women & Gender in the Arts & Media, Columbia College Chicago 1996–2004 Advisory Board, Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago 1998–2004 Exhibition Advisory Committee, Department of Cultural Affairs, Chicago 1997–2004 Grants Panelist (Chair), City Arts Program, City of Chicago 1991 Community Artist Assistance Program Grant, City of Chicago