Arpi Adamyan was born in 1985, Yerevan, Armenia. Adamyan is a multimedia artists currently based in New York City. She received her BA and first MFA degrees from Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts in 2007. She was one of the board members of Utopiana Swiss Armenian cultural organisation from 2006-2009. In 2007 she co-founded Queering Yerevan Collective with fellow artists, writers, curators and activists. Her works were shown at EV+A International Biennial of Contemporary Art Give(a)way (2006, Ierland), VI Gyumri International Biennial of Contemporary Art (2008, Armenia), FilmIdyll Festival (2009, Sweden), Decolonizing the City (2012, Germany), Take Place by VBKÖ (2013, Austria), Suzanne Lacy’s International Dinner Party in Feminist Curatorial Thought (2015, Switzerland), etc. 

Arpi Adamyan is building queer-feminist utopian worlds. Her multimedia installations are hybridized pasts (Soviet, Armenian) and futures (bio-techno-utopian) that form complex fictions through historical citations and possible futures. Admayan merges fairy tales and toys of the infant’s world with architectural and natural environments of grown-ups. These installations combine screens (TV monitors, tablets), with fabric, paper and clay sculptures. In some of her works  Adamyan creates objects or organisms made partially from physical materials and partially digital. Her method of artmaking is hybridization of multiple contradictions and in some cases through ironic tales. Adamyan’s works communicate several realities and are not possible to grasp through one only lense.