Ara Oshagan

Ara Oshagan is a diasporic multi-disciplinary artist, curator and cultural worker whose practice explores collective and personal histories of dispossession, legacies of violence, identity and (un)imagined futures. He works in photography, film, collage, installation, public art and monuments.

Oshagan has published three books of photography and has presented his work at the Annenberg Space for Photography, International Center of Photography in NY and TedX Yerevan. Oshagan has had solo exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York and South Korea, and participated in multiple group shows. His work has been reviewed and featured in the LA Times, LA Weekly, NPR's Morning Edition, Virginia Quarterly Review, Hyperallergic, Artillery Mag, Mother Jones and the London Times Literary Supplement among others. His work is in the permanent collection of the Southeast Museum of Photography, the Downey Museum of Art, Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts and MOMA in Armenia. Oshagan is based in Los Angeles and is a curator at ReflectSpace Gallery in the City of Glendale.