Farrah Karapetian

Farrah Karapetian is a California-based artist and writer whose interdisciplinary work explores the role of individual agency in transformative moments. Her practice spans photography, installation, and writing, and has been exhibited and collected by major institutions like the J. Paul Getty Museum, LACMA, and SFMOMA. She is a recipient of prestigious fellowships including the Fulbright and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Karapetian’s critical writing appears in The Brooklyn Rail and the Los Angeles Review of Books, supported by a Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. A Yale and UCLA graduate, she teaches at the University of San Diego and lectures worldwide—from Harvard to Mexico City. Through residencies and workshops in Latin America, Central Asia, and Europe, she fosters co-creative and transdisciplinary approaches that question fixed narratives and institutional legacies.