My work re-centers historical narratives that face burial or erasure. Informed by my experience as both a descendant of the Armenian diaspora and a life-long Los Angeles resident, I use my uniquely stylized figurative paintings to represent marginalized or forgotten cultural histories.
About the Artist
Anna Kalachyan (b. 1990) is a multidisciplinary artist who lives and works in her hometown of Los Angeles, California. In her figurative work, Anna seeks to re-center historical narratives that are at risk of erasure. Informed by her experiences as both a descendant of the Armenian diaspora, and a life-long Los Angeles resident, Anna uses her uniquely stylized figurative paintings to represent marginalized or forgotten cultural histories. By telling the complex stories of triumph, beauty, and humanity that are all too frequently left out of Western colonial record, her works champion a more complete picture of cultures like hers that face flattening at the hands of imperialism. In Anna’s more abstracted series, her commitment to portraying the human experience remains, with figures dwelling in environments populated by abstracted forms - serving as microcosms of daily life that feel at once deeply intimate and universally accessible.
Featured in The Other Art Fair, 2024
Featured in Artsy Foundations Fair, 2024
Exhibited at MiXX projects +Atelier, 2023