ROUZANNA BERBERIAN/bio
Rouzanna Berberian is a Los Angeles based multidisciplinary artist and educator who was born in Yerevan, Armenia. Her family immigrated to the United States in the 1990s, where she continued her education at Pasadena City College. She changed her major from engineering to fine arts as soon as she took her first art class with influential artist and educator Jim Morphesis. Later, she continued her studies which led her into teaching art and inspiring generations of students.
Primarily known for her circuit board paintings, Rouzanna delved into photography when she was offered a teaching position in digital photography at South Pasadena High School. Without being confined to a specific genre, she enjoys photographing the interaction of light and shadows, along with anything that sparks her imagination. “I photograph what I feel,” she often says.
Rouzanna received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the California State University, Los Angeles. She has participated in solo and group exhibitions in the Greater Los Angeles area and in Armenia. She was also nominated for Music Center's BRAVO awards for excellence in art education and her photographs were selected by the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center portraying "A Day in the Life of Asian Pacific America". She is one of the founding members of She Loves Collective and does art performances to promote social change. Her work is in numerous public and private collections.
Photo Credit: Jake Hagopian
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
MFA California State University, Los Angeles
BA California State University, Los Angeles (Magna cum Laude)
Single Subject Teaching Credential (Art), Point Loma Nazarene University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 TRACE, The Center for Armenian Arts, Glendale CA, Curator: Taline Olmessekian
2015 Rouzanna Berberian: Recent Paintings, Red Pipe Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Curator: Mat Gleason
2015 ICON, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University,
Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Yerevan Art Expo 2024, Modern Art Museum of Yerevan, Yerevan,Armenia
Curators: Narine Isajanyan and Julian Johnson
2023 MOAH:CEDAR's 38th Annual All-Media Juried Art Exhibition, Museum of Art and History
(MOAH Cedar), Lancaster, CA, Curators: Cecelia Koger, Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Edwin Vasquez
2023 Shelter, She Loves Collective, Sponsored by the City of Glendale, CA, Curator:
Adrineh Baghdassarian
2022 MOAH:CEDAR's Annual Juried Exhibition 2022, Museum of Art and History (MOAH
Cedar), Lancaster, CA, Curators: Heather Bowling, Mike Che, and Mika Cho.
2021 CROSSROADS, CROSSING, AND CONVERGENCE, She Loves Collective, Tufenkian Fine
Arts, Glendale CA, Curators: Caroline Tufenkian, Fatemeh Burnes
2021 Her Relic, She Loves Collective Immersive Installation, ReflectSpace, Glendale Public
Library, Glendale, CA, Curator: Adrineh Bagdassarian
2021 My Relic, She Loves Collective three part installation on Artsakh St. Galleries, Glendale,
CA, Curator Adrineh Baghdassarian
2020 The Rifles Our Ancestors Didn’t Have, She Loves Collective Art Performance at LA
River, Los Angeles, CA, Curator Adrineh Baghdassarian
2019 STACKED, Artsakh Paseo, Glendale, CA, Curators: Selwa Sweidan + Laura Darlington
2019 Sense of Armenia, Armenian Arts Gallery, Glendale, CA, Curator: Rouzanna Berberian
2018 Pure not Proper, Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles, CA, Curator: Adrineh Baghdassarian
2018 Incarnadine, Mash Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Curator: Mat Gleason
2018 Many Faces of Armenians: A Celebration of Queer-Armenian Art, Glendale, CA
2017 Seismic Shift: Confronting Catastrophe, Avenue 50 Studio, Highland Park, CA, Juror:
MacKenzie Stevens, Curatorial Assistant, Hammer Museum
2017 VS., 825 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Out There, 825 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Jurors: Francisco George & William Escalera
2017 Walls: A Quest for Immersive space, Produce Haus, Los Angeles, CA, Curator:
Zadik Zadikian
2017 She Loves, Honeypot LA, Los Angeles, CA, Curator: Adrineh Baghdassarian
2017 Los Angeles: Our Eyes, Armenian Arts Gallery, Glendale, CA
2016 Play: Open Call, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Juror: Scott
Canty, Director Emeritus, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
2016 LA Artcore 2nd Annual Online Competition & Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA, Jury Panel:
Andi Campognone, Peter Frank, Tracey Landworth, Ramone Munoz, and Mark Steven
Greenfield
2016 Modern Art EXPO, Yeraz Factory, Yerevan, Armenia
2016 Mas Attack 8 & 9, San Diego Art Institute & Temporary Space LA, Curators: Kio
Griffith, Colton Stenke & Max Presneill
2016 Trending: Contemporary Art Now!, Target Gallery at the Torpedo Factory Art Center,
Alexandria, VA, Juror: Elizabeth Garvey, Garvey Simon Art Access NYC, NY
2016 Arevdur, Armenian Arts Gallery, Glendale, CA, Curator: Stepan Partamian
2015 California Open Exhibition, Tag Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, Juror: Jim Morphesis
2015 Remembering the Armenian Genocide 100th Anniversary, Anzoh Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
2015 Chaos Theory, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, CA
2014 A Day in the Life of Asian Pacific America, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center,
A museum without walls, Juror Panel: Eddie Wong, Masum Momaya, Adriel Luis,
Amber McClure, Melissa Bisagni, Lawrence-Minh Bùi Davis
RECENT PRESS
2024 Coagula, Rouzanna Berberian Traces Painting’s Path Forward, By Mat Gleason, January 26, 2024
2023 Tiger, BERBERIAN HONORS LIVES LOST, by Jayden Tran, volume 109 issue 4, January 31, 2023
2022 Asbarez, She Loves Collective Unveils Exhibit Honoring 44-Day War Heroes, by
2021 Hyperallergic, A Home of Armenian Relics Becomes a Space to Heal From Trauma Published by Matt Stromberg, April 22, 2021
2020 Los Angeles Times, Armenian monuments are at risk in Azerbaijan. L.A. artists make their own to keep memory alive, BY CAROLINA A. MIRANDACOLUMNIST DEC. 16, 2020 12:36 PM PT
2020 The Orange County Register, Art of growing old reflected in annual photo exhibit, By THERESA WALKER , PUBLISHED: November 20, 2020 at 4:39 p.m.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT & RESIDENCIES
2022 National Art Education Conference,New York, New York
2019 National Art Education Conference, Boston, Massachusetts Program Co-Coordinators:
Andrea Haas/ Dawn Benski
2016 Cow House Studios Art Educator Residency
2011 NEH Grant, Landmarks of American History and Culture Workshops, National
Endowment for the Humanities
2016 Southern Region Conference, Art Inspired: Place, People & Professionalism
2013 CAEA Southern State Area Conference, Reconnecting Art
COLLECTIONS
2024 Kaiser Permanente, Glendale CA
2017 Produce Haus, Los Angeles, CA
2009 St. Leon Cathedral, Burbank, CA
2007 St. Gregory Armenian Apostolic Church, Pasadena, CA
SELECTED CLIENTS
