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Lisa_D_ArchigianLisa D. Archigian is a visual artist with a background in painting, printmaking and illustration.  Her work is an exploration of narratives of space (architectural and mental), referencing the urban landscape, domestic interiors, and archival images of the Armenian Genocide.  Often the images depict spaces created for people, but left in desolate and uninhabited states, while humans are exiled in the natural environment.

Her paintings and prints have appeared exhibitions in New York;  Los Angeles; and Kyoto, Japan, where several of her woodcut prints are held in the collection of the Kyoto International Woodprint Association.

She earned an MLS from Queens College, CUNY, specializing in Children’s and Young Adult Services in the Public Library. A portion of her visual work combines text and images, a strategy which dovetails with her interest in researching and teaching visual and multi-modal literacy.

View her Multimedia work, and writing on Comics in Libraries.

Contact: lisa.archigian[at]gmail.com

**Images (c)opyright Lisa D. Archigian 2015-2023. All rights reserved. Images may not be used without permission of the artist.**

Education:
Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Queens College, CUNY (Flushing, NY): MLS, Public Library Services to Children and Young Adults Certificate
Union Institute & University (Cincinnati, OH): BA Liberal Studies, Arts, Literature & Writing Concentration

Press:
2021
– Museum Association of New York Westchester Children’s Museum Partners With NASA
– NISE Network Partner Highlight: It’s a bird, it’s a plane… It’s the Solar System! Westchester Children’s Museum in Rye, NY Celebrates the James Webb Space Telescope Launch in a Big Way
– Rain Taxi Review Vol. 26 No. 1 Spring 2021. Arthur Nersesian: Speculations | in conversation with Zack Kopp
–Exhibition Catalog: TELEPHONE Project
2020
– Publishers Weekly Holiday Gift Guide 2020: Fiction
– Bob Odenkirk Interviews Arthur Nersesian
– SKYLIT: Arthur Nersesian, “The Five Books of (Robert) Moses” w/ Johnny Temple
– Publishers Weekly Review of The Five Books of (Robert) Moses “…Dozens of black-and-white illustrations by Lisa Archigian playfully enhance the narrative. Nersesian’s binge-worthy odyssey is a singularly wild ride.”
2019
– New Haven Independent on Sanctuary Cities and the Politics of the American Dream at Creative Arts Workshop “…Archigian’s own work focuses on the horrors of the Armenian genocide, including a startling image that feels sadly, urgently current.”
– Exhibition Catalog: Sanctuary Cities and the Politics of the American Dream
2018
– Bleeding Cool: The 450 People Who Signed a Letter Asking for the New York Times Graphic Novel Bestseller List Back
2012
– North American Art Section
2005
– Press Release: The New York ASA is proud to announce the outstanding success of this year’s 56th Annual Artists’ Ball

Talks:
2019
– SOFA: North Carolina Museum of Art (Raleigh, NC); Guest of Hearth Studio
– Natural Pigments and the Expressive Use of Color: Hearth Studio (Durham, NC)
– SAHAJA Space (Durham, NC)
– Reading Images: Exploring Concepts in Two Dimensional Art: Digital Arts Experience/K2GO (Scarsdale, NY)
2016
– Manhattan Graphics Center (New York, NY)

Selected Group Exhibitions:
  • Members Holiday Show: Manhattan Graphics Center (2022)
  • Pop-Up Relief Conspiracy: Southern Graphics Council International (SGCI), Madison, WI (2022)
  • Welcome Back: Manhattan Graphics Center (2021)
  • Liminal Beings Presented by the Socially Distant Artist Residency (2021)
  • TELEPHONE-Project (2021)
  • Relief Conspiracy: The Harlow Gallery, Hallowell, ME (2021)
  • So Close, Yet So Far: EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop at Printed Matter St. Marks: New York, NY (2020)
  • We Live in Real Time: Printed Matter, New York, NY (2020)
  • Monitors Show: EFA Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop, New York, NY (2019)
  • Sanctuary Cities and the Politics of the American Dream: Creative Arts Workshop, New Haven, CT: curated by Luciana Q. McClure (2019)
  • Moth Migration Project: Oak Hill Gallery: Mornington Vic, Australia (2019)
  • Moth Migration Project: Bundaberg Regional Gallery: Bundaberg, Australia (2019)
  • Moth Migration Project: Gympie Regional Gallery: Gympie, Australia (2019)
  • Complicit: Erasure of the Body– Nasty Women Connecticut: Yale Divinity School: Sarah G. Smith Gallery : New Haven, CT (2019)
  • Your Place Squared: Bruce Museum: Greenwich, CT (2019)
  • Building Power: Planthouse: New York, NY; curated by Kirsten Flaherty (2019)
  • Postcards from the Edge: Gallery 524: New York, NY (2018)
  • Moth Migration Project: Sunbury Shores Nature and Art Centre, St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada (2018)
  • Moth Migration Project: Heard Natural Science Museum & Wildlife Sanctuary, McKinney, TX (2018)
  • Cross Pollination: 516Arts: Albuquerque, NM (2017); contributor to the Moth Migration Project
  • Snap to Grid: Los Angeles Center for Digital Art: Los Angeles, CA (2014)
  • Free Columbia Art Dispersal: Basilica Hudson: Hudson, NY; Collaboration with Lindy Chicola of Hearth (2012)
  • The 6th KIWA Exhibition: Kyoto International Woodprint Association: Kyoto, Japan (2011)
  • Print Show: Studio 889: New York, NY (2008)
  • Mixed Media: Bridge Gallery: New Rochelle, NY (2008)
  • Intaglio: Bridge Gallery: New Rochelle, NY (2007)
  • ASA Artists Ball: Puck Gallery: New York, NY (2006)
  • Intaglio Prints: Fashion Institute of Technology: New York, NY (2006)
  • Spring: Vermont College: Montpelier, VT (2003)
  • Juried Undergraduate Painting Exhibition: Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design: Providence, RI (2001)
Collections:
  • Kyoto International Woodprint Association: Kyoto, Japan
  • Manhattan Graphics Center
  • Printed Matter, Inc.
  • William C. Maxwell
  • Private Collections
Honors:
  • Beta Phi Mu: The International Library and Information Honors Society (2019 Inductee)
  • Manhattan Graphics Center Artist’s Scholarship (2015 Recipient)
  • Ellen Libretto and Adam Conrad Scholarship in Children’s and Young Adult Literacy Research: GSLIS, Queens College CUNY (2015 Recipient)
  • Golden Key International Honour Society (2015 Inductee)
  • Yale University School of Art Norfolk Fellowship (2010 Nominee)