Ellina Kevorkian

Ellina Kevorkian is an artist and curator who finds hybridized relationships in painting, photography, video, and performance. Her 18-year career in the arts has shaped her vision. She supports work that not only challenges expectations of method and content between disciplines, but also fights for integrity in the arts, for the artist’s intention, for the inclusion of under-recognized voices, and advocates for artist sustainability. Her challenge, as it is for others, is to stay curious and then to do the work of becoming informed.

Through her own paintings and video art she looks at intersections among feminist, identity, and autobiography– often with the participation of her twin sister, as well as her children– while observing cultural representations of women. Kevorkian has participated in solo and group exhibitions, showing work at Western Project, Mark Moore Gallery, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, The Center for the Art of Performance at University of California Los Angeles, as well as having been included in the Southern California Council of the National Museum of Women in the Arts-sponsored retrospective Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006. Her work was recently written about by Sunjata Iyengar in Rethinking Feminism in Early Modern Studies—Gender, Race and Sexuality, published by Routledge Press, edited by Ania Loomba and Melissa Sanchez.

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