Shoghig Halajian

Email:

shalajian@ucsd.edu

Biography:

Shoghig Halajian is a curator and researcher based in Los Angeles. Her curatorial work and writings focus on queer and feminist histories, the photographic archive, institutional critique through a critical race and gender studies lens. She is co-editor of Georgia, an online journal in collaboration with Anthony Carfello and Suzy Halajian, and serves on the Board of Directors at Human Resources LA. From 2013-2016, Halajian was Assistant Director at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE). Recent curatorial projects include: A grammar built with rocks (co-curated with Suzy Halajian) at Human Resources LA, One Archives at the USC Libraries, and Redcat, 2018; At night the states (co-curated with Suzy Halajian) at Hammer Museum, 2017; DISSENT: what they fear is the light (co-curated with Thomas Lawson), LACE, 2016; Jibade-Khalil Huffman: Verse Chorus Verse, LACE, 2016; Rafa Esparza: I have never been here before, LACE, 2015; and The Whole World is Watching, Le Magasin (co-curated with Corrado Salzano and Sarah Sandler) at Centre National d'Art Contemporain, 2012. She holds a MA from Calart’s Critical Studies: Aesthetics and Politics program and a BA in English Literature with minors in Women's Studies and Philosophy from UCLA. She was a curatorial fellow at Ecole du Magasin in 2011.

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