ANDREW DEMIRJIAN
EDUCATION:

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

GRANTS, RESIDENCIES & AWARDS:

2007
    Artist in Residence, Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY
    Professional Activities Fund Award, Rutgers University
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
2004
    Steinhauer Mullins Scholarship, Hunter College, NY
    Technology Fellowship, Hunter College, NY
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 EXHIBITIONS:
2007
    Maybe, Almost, Always: Jersey City, Video Wall @ Canco Lofts, Jersey City, NJ, twenty-one screen
    public art installation November – December 2007
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:
2007        Emerge 8, Ajira, A Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ, June – July 2007
    Under Construction, Island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni, Venice, Italy, June – October 2007
    {R}ake: Live video performance with Jane Rigler and Christian Pincock, Monkey Town, Brooklyn, NY, May 17, 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
    Visual Arts Fellowship Exhibit, Ben Shaun Galleries at William Patterson University, Wayne, NJ, March – April 2007
    Failure, Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ, January – February 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
    Monumental, Victory Hall, Jersey City, NJ, March 2006

2005
    Shoot, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, November 2005
    International Media Festival, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan, Armenia, August 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
    Open Zone, Ocularis, Brooklyn, NY, March 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


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