Linda Ganjian art

07/27/2026

Update: I’m moving into a studio space in northern Greenpoint on August 1. I haven’t had time or presence of mind to make any new art since the fire. Instead my time is occupied with remaking the water/smoke damaged crates that contain my work.

Perhaps a silver lining: visiting with work that was buried in storage, like this paper sculpture, Etruscan Landscape (image 1), as well as other early work.

I’ve been thinking about the practice of caring for one’s artwork, and what a leap of faith it is. To hope that it will find an audience, and even better, caretakers who will share responsibility for its future.

07/23/2026

I am happy to announce I’m a 2026 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts!

Excited for the peer recognition and to be part of a program that has supported artists of all disciplines across New York State for 41 years. Thankful to have this kind of support for my work and excited to put the award money to use!
Honestly, it couldn’t have come at a better time!
Thank you and ! Full details at nyfa.org/news.

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05/19/2026

I will be presenting a short talk about my work next Tuesday in person at the Feminist Armenian Research Collective (FemARC) workshop at UCLA. Title is: 3D Carpets and Collages: Memory as Metropolis. Thank you to organizers Melissa Bilal and Lerna Ekmekcioglu for the invitation. I'm looking forward to it.

Link for more details: https://csw.ucla.edu/event/feminist-armenian-research-collective-workshop-new-directions-in-music-arts-and-performance-studies/

05/04/2026

Here is the second collage from a new series, We Rebuild What You Destroy, (Մենք կը վերակառուցենք ան որ դուք կը քանդէք) centering a Western Armenian altar from Lim Island Monastery in Van.
Van: Lim Island Monastery
2026
Mixed: watercolor, ink, gouache, mica, origami paper, giclee prints on Arches paper
30 x 22 in | 76 x 56 cm
(Source: Mekhitarist Order, San Lazzaro, Venice. Courtesy of Father Vahan Ohanian.)
See previous post for statement.
More images and full statement at https://www.lindaganjian.net/collages---paintings/we-rebuild-what-you-destroy

04/18/2026

Here are some images of a new collage, completed late last year during a residency at I-Park in CT.
Ourfa Sourp Asdvadzazin, 2025. Mixed media: watercolor, ink, gouache, mica, origami paper, giclee prints on Arches paper, 30 x 22 in | 76 x 56 cm
In this new series of mixed media collages, called “We Rebuild What You Destroy,” I center archival photographs of altars from churches in historic Western Armenia— sites of cultural erasure due to the Armenian genocide of 1915 and prior pograms by Ottoman Turks. I set up a visual dialogue between these photographs and a futuristic architecture that represents my experience as an American-born diasporan Armenian, a member of a re-constituted community. My goal is to channel the spirit of these destroyed altars’ aesthetic and structural properties, as well as their symbolic role as spiritual focal points, through a precisely drafted and invented architecture.
The altar is from Sourp Asdvadzazin church in Ourfa, and was found on the Houshamadyan website (https://www.houshamadyan.org/mapottomanempire/vilayetaleppo/ourfa/religion/churches.html) originally from the Christine Gardon collection, Berlin.
Thank you for taking care of me while I was working on this.
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04/09/2026

I’m excited to announce that I’m a 2026 Queens Arts Fund recipient! This project-based grant will enable me to bring “Fantastical Altars – a mini exhibit and workshop” to Jackson Heights in October. I’ll be partnering with my friends at . Look out for details in the early fall.

Thank you to and for helping to support this work!

Click here for the full 2026 Queens Arts Fund award announcement: [https://www.nyfa.org/news/new-york-foundation-for-the-arts-nyfa-and-nyc-department-of-cultural-affairs-dcla-announce-493350-in-grants-for-129-queens-based-artists-artist-collectives-and-small-nonprofits-through-the-que/?mc_cid=944437c912&mc_eid=26c2fe27cd]

Be sure to follow for details on when and where you can experience the arts in Queens this calendar year!

image: detail of new work, untitled for the moment.

04/03/2026

Here’s the companion piece to my last post. Wanting to share some good photos and details (thank you to photographer Kevin Noble).
Light Rising Light Falling, 2025. Mixed media: ink, acrylic, mica, gouache, watercolor, origami paper, patternmaking paper, giclee on Arches paper. 45 x 30 in. | 114 x 76 cm.
See my last post for statement. This was shown at my solo at last year and also in a group show at Boesky gallery in Chelsea in August.
More images from this series at my website: lindaganjian.net