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Curriculum Vitae

Andrew Demirjian is a media artist whose practice is inspired by traditional painting genres like landscape and portraiture but reinterpreted through computer processing. He is interested in how technology, like surveillance video, motion tracking and data gathering can be used to create portraits that simultaneously display interior and exterior states, the psychological and the physical. The work employs a deep sense of irony and subversive humor to explore the rich textures of the psyche and critically examine relationships between the self and society. Andrew takes an interdisciplinary approach to his practice drawing upon his experience as a musician and filmmaker to create responsive interactions between the aural and visual. In the work, conceptual systems of juxtaposition, categorization and randomness replace conventional narrative arcs and character development.

His work has been featured in exhibitions at the White Box gallery, The Center for Book Arts, LMAK Projects and Harvestworks in Manhattan. Over the last year he has had multiple international exhibitions including the Garden of Earthly Delights in Korea, Küf/Mold in Rotterdam and Analogue/Digital in England. Andrew Demirjian received a 2006 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a Puffin Foundation Grant, an Artslink grant and has been awarded artist in residencies at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, the Newark Museum, the Experimental Television Center, the CYLAND Media Laboratory and the Visual Studies Workshop. Mr. Demirjian received his MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College and he is a Professor at Monmouth University teaching courses in video production, visual culture and film history.

GRANTS, RESIDENCIES & AWARDS:

2009 Artist in Residence, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE

Artist in Residence, Grand Canyon South Rim Program, Grand Canyon, AZ

Artist in Residence, CYLAND Media Laboratory, Kronstadt, Russia
   
2008 Artist in Residence, Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY
   
2007 Artist in Residence, Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY
   
2006 NJ State Council on the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship

Puffin Foundation Grant, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ

Emerge 8, Creative Capital program at the Aljira Center for Contemporary Art

Artist in Residence, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
   
2005 First Prize, Overall Video Portfolio, CUNY Arts Gala
   
2003 Artslink Grant, Laznia Contemporary Art Center, Gdansk, Poland

Artist in Residence, Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
   
2002 Artist in Residence, Armenian Center of Contemporary Experimental Art
   

SOLO EHIBITIONS:

2009 Nitrogen Cycles, Gallery Aferro, New Media Room, Newark, NJ
March – May 2009
   
2008 Maybe, Almost, Always, Video Wall @ Canco Lofts, Jersey City, NJ,
twenty-one screen digital art installation, October 2008
   
2006 M/M, City Without Walls, New Media Project Room, Newark, NJ
May – June 2006
   
2005 Indulge and Deny, LMAK Projects, Brooklyn, NY
May - June 2005
   
2004 Splintered Self, Video Re:Wind, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
September – December 2004
   
2003 Gdansk: Talk Back, Laznia Contemporary Center of Art, Gdansk, Poland,
January – February 2004
 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS & PERFORMANCE:

2009 Borderline, Rush Arts Gallery, New York, NY November - December 2009

Küf/Mold Rotterdam, public art installation, Rotterdam, Netherlands, September - October 2009

Flow: art/text/new media, The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY April - June 2009

Desire/Intent,Live audiovisual performance with Sabir Mateen and Rob Brown,
Bronx River Arts Center, Bronx, NY January 2009
   
2008 Red Badge of Courage: Revisited, Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ
October – November 2008

Westinghouse Project,
New Jersey School of Architecture, Newark, NJ
October – November 2008

Küf/Mold
, Gallery Jancolle, Gent, Belgium,
September – October 2008

Music For Planning,
Live audiovisual performance, The Stone, New York, NY,
October, 2008

Garden of Delights,
Yeosu Cultural Center, Yeosu, Korea,
September, 2008

Sprawl,
Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ,
March – August 2008

Stories We Tell,
New York Arab and South Asian Film Festival, Art in General,
New York, NY, March 2008
   
2007 Analogue & Digital, Fieldgate Gallery, London, England,
November – December 2007

Artist in Wonderland, Baltic Sea Cultural Center, Gdansk, Poland,
October – November 2007

Emerge 8, Aljira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ,
June – July 2007

Innovations in Jazz and Film, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Live video performance and panel discussion, New York, NY May 16, 2007

Flickering Self: Video Portraits by Andrew Demirjian, Orlan, Martin C. de Waal,
Paul Robeson Gallery, Newark, NJ, March – April 2007
   
2006 Switch’d on Video, SEAMUS Electro Acoustic Music Festival, Screening presented by IMMArtsSet, Chicago, IL, November 2006

New American Talent 21,
Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX, Curated by Aimee Chang, June – August 2006.

3+3 = Artists in Residence,
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ,
May – July 2006

Daymare: New Documentary Terrain
, The LAB, San Francisco, CA
March 2006
   
2005 Shoot, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY,
November 2005

International Media Festival
, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art,
Yerevan, Armenia, Auguast 2005

Six Degrees of Separation,
Black Maria Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
June 2005

1800 Frames 2005
, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
June 2005

Political Videos From New York
, ObjectNotFound, Monterey, Mexico,
May 2005
   
2004 Anthro/Socio, the:artist:network, New York, NY
November – December 2004

The Phantom Limb
, Unit B Gallery, Chicago, IL
September 2004

Six Feet Under Make Nice
, White Box Gallery, New York, NY
August 2004

Stay Tuned: Hypnotic Videos
by Contemporary Artists, The Studio: An Alternative Space for Contemporary Art, Armonk, NY, May – June 2004

Whiz Bang
, Harvestworks, New York, NY,
May 2004

Tactile Action
, Gigantic ArtSpace, New York, NY,
April – May 2004

Video:1800frames:1min
, City Without Walls, Newark, NJ,
March – April 2004

Personal Landscapes
, Artist talk and screening, Bunkier Sztuki, Krakow, Poland
January 2004
   
2003

Short Circuit, Images Cinema, Williamstown, MA November 2003

Political Projects
, Harvestworks, New York, NY November 2003

Trampoline
, New Media Art, Berlin, Germany, October 2003

The Lizards by the Baltic Sea
, Modelarnia, Gdansk, Poland, August 2003

The Education Channel, 10th Annual Independents’ Film Festival, Tampa, FL July 2003

Detachment
, Tremont Gallery, Boston, MA March – May 2003

Vertical Video
, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY March – April 2003

   
2002 National Conference of the Academy of Moving Image Archive, Boston, MA
November 2002

Media{Less}Medium
, Mills Gallery, Boston, MA November 2002

Twenty-First Annual Metro Show
, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, NJ,
November – December 2002

Third Annual Gyumri Biennial
, Gyumri, Armenia, August – September 2002

Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art
, Yerevan, Armenia, July 2002

The Senses
, Digital Media Exhibition, InMedia, The University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, MI, February 2002
   
2001 Subterfuge, Space 07 Gallery, Miami, FL December 2001

Tent
, Locust Projects, Miami, FL October - November 2001
 

EDUCATION

2005 MFA Integrated Media Arts, Hunter College, New York, NY
   
1988 BA, Clark University, Worcester, MA
   
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