Farrah Karapetian was born in 1978 in Marin, California, and is currently based in Los Angeles. Her work “marries two traditions in photography – that of the staged picture and that of the image made without a camera” (LA Times 2015). Her methods incorporate sculptural and performative means of achieving imagery that refigures the medium of photography around bodily experience. She received a B.A. from Yale and an M.F.A. from the University of California Los Angeles, has exhibited internationally, and her work is in public collections that include the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco. She has received fellowships from the Fulbright Program, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the California Community Foundation, and the Center for Cultural Innovation. Her writing about visual and civic experience has been recognized by multiple publications and by the Creative Capital | Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant Program.
Farrah Karapetian
Studios
Nef
Farrah Karapetian worked in the Nef studio.
Nef Studio, the first entirely new studio built after 1937, was donated by esteemed photographer, explorer, author, and MacDowell Fellow Evelyn Steffanson Nef in 1992. Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction. Mrs. Nef said she had known about MacDowell all her…