Representative work by Sonia Balassanian
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Artist

Sonia Balassanian

b. 1942, Arak, Iran · Based in New York & Yerevan

  • Whitney Museum Independent Study Program (1973)
  • Pratt Institute, Brooklyn (1970)
  • Painting
  • Installation
  • Collage
  • Video

Sonia Balassanian is an Iranian-Armenian pioneer of abstract expressionism and socially committed conceptual art. Confronting the traumas of the 1979 Iranian Revolution, political hostage crises, and the Armenian Genocide, her visceral text paintings and video installations dismantle state violence.

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