DENISE YAGHMOURIAN

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EDUCATION 1991: Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Fine Art, State University, Tempe, Arizona HONORS/AWARDS Contemporary Forum Artist Grant, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona.

EXHIBITIONS 2015 Denise Yaghmourian, Fragile Life – Eddie Shea, Krivanek, Modified Arts/phICA May 15-June14, Phoenix, AZ. Minimally Speaking, Bentley Gallery, March 5-April 18, Phoenix, AZ. Buffalo Girl: Celebrating Jane Reddin, Practical Art, April 1-30, Phoenix, AZ. Feminism Today, Shade Gallery at the monOrchid, March 6 – 29, Phoenix, Arizona. 2nd Juried Exhibition, Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art, March 15, Scottsdale, Arizona. Self Made: 15 Years of eye lounge, Vision Gallery, January 20 -, Chandler, Arizona 2014 The Gift: Selections from the Armstrong-Prior Archive, ASU Art Museum, December 2 – June 20, Tempe, Arizona. ARTELPHX – September 25, 26, & 27. Thrill Room – A collaborative installation with the artist and ARTEL guests ARTELPHX: The World’s Largest Independent Hotel Art Installation, Clarendon Hotel, May 15-17. Typing Pool – Collaborative Improvisational Performance, Joe Willie Smith & Denise Yaghmourian 2013 IN FLUX: a multi-city initiative, demonstrating a holistic approach to temporary public art. Red Matter: Installation, 51 E. Boston Street, Chandler, Arizona. STRUCTURE, Bentley Gallery, May 7- 31, Phoenix, Arizona. Sex: A Woman’s Perspective, Frontal Lobe Gallery, September, Phoenix, AZ 3R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Tempe Library, Oct.-March, Tempe, Arizona. 2012 The Shape of Things: 4 Decades of Sculpture, Tucson Museum of Art, October 5 – November, Tucson, Arizona. Shemer Art Center and Museum, October 4 – November 7, Phoenix, Arizona Udinotti Museum of Figurative Art, March 25 – August 21, Paradise Valley, Arizona 2011 20 Questions, Tempe Center for the Arts, April 23 – September 2, Tempe, Arizona 2010 DEN Contemporary , Los Angeles, California 2009 Duo (Jeff Bertoncino & Denise Yaghmourian)– Bogena Galerie, September, St. Paul De Vence, France. Partisan – Art Chicago, May 1 – 4, Chicago, Illinois.

Out of the Box, Zane Bennett Gallery, June 12 – July 17, Santa Fe, New Mexico 2008 Start08, SOHO20 Gallery, January 2-26, Chelsea, New York. The Fiber of the Matter, The Icehouse, November 7 – 21, Phoenix, Arizona. Merry Go Round, SOHO20 Gallery, November 25 – December 20, Chelsea, New York. 2007 Denise Yaghmourian, Bentley Gallery, August 23 - September 30, Scottsdale, Arizona. 2006 Ideas/Images/Structures, SOHO20 Gallery, November 28 - December 21, Chelsea, Chelsea, New York. Place, Eye lounge: a contemporary art space, September 1 - 30, Phoenix, Arizona. Figure Exhibition, Bogena Galerie, October 1 – 31, St. Paul, France. Grant Recipient Exhibition, Phoenix Art Museum, May 2006, Fancy Underwear, One Woman Show, SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery, June 1 - 24, Chelsea, New York, New York. Changing the World, One Thread at a Time, An International Exhibition, Tubac Center of the Arts, February 17 – March 26, Tubac, Arizona. 2005 Under the Influence, Eye lounge: a contemporary art space, February 4 – 26, Phoenix, Arizona. Arizona Biennial – Tucson Museum of Art, May 13 - August 21, Tucson, Arizona. Installation of Marcel Duchamp’s Mile of String, Phoenix Art Museum, June 5 - September 25, Phoenix, Arizona. LOOP, Fala Gallery, December 1 – 30, Tucson Arizona. Push and Pull, Eye lounge: a contemporary art space, November 1 - 30, Phoenix, Arizona. Time Pieces, West Valley Art Museum, September 2 - November 6, Surprise, Arizona. Standing Room Only, Burton Barr Gallery, August 1 - 29, Phoenix, Arizona. 2004 7th Annual Artlink Juried Exhibition – An Exhibition of Leading Contemporary Arizona Artwork (Jurors: Patty Haberman/ Mesa Contemporary Arts, Alan Jones / Artist, Heather Lineberry / ASU Art Museum) November 1 - 30, Phoenix, Arizona. Ceres Gallery Sixth National Juried Exhibition (Juror: Fereshteh Daftari, Department of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art) May 25 - June 19, Ceres Gallery, New York, New York. Permanent Installation/ Prenatal, Desert Samaritan Hospital, Mesa, Arizona. 2003 Night Visions, Eye lounge: a contemporary art space, June 6 – 28, Phoenix, Arizona. Works in White, Eye lounge: a contemporary art space, November 7 - 29, Phoenix, Arizona. 2002 Obsessions, , November 1 - December 13, ASU Galleria, Tempe, Arizona. Obsessions of the Heart, August 8 - September 21, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, Arizona. Group Exhibit, Studio Lo-Do Contemporary Arts Gallery, July 1 – August 23, Phoenix, Arizona. 2001 Artlink Juried Exhibition – Sandra Day O’Connor U.S. Federal Courthouse, November 2 - 28, Phoenix, Arizona.

Press and Reviews 2014 September, Arizona Foothills Magazine, ARTEL Fall 2014, Nicole Royse September, AZCentral.com, ARTEL 2014 at The Clarendon Hotel September, Downtown Devil, ArtelPhHX brings exhibition to the Clarendon Hotel, Rachel Bouley 2013 June, Arizona Republic, Scottsdale art program transforms Valley window displays, Sonja Haller Feb, Phoenix New Times Blog, Artist Denise Yaghmourian Creates Experimental Patterning in Her Studio, Thania A. Betancourt Feb, East Valley Tribune, 3 new public art works going up in Chandler Jan, Phoenix Business Journal, Phoenix Artist Denise Yaghmourian is creating her first public piece for IN FLUX 2009 June, ARTnews, Holly Roberts/Denise Yaghmourian, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, pg.52 June /July, Santa Fean, Mark di Suvero, Holly Roberts, and Denise Yaghmourian, pg.53, Michael Abatemarco June, THE Magazine-of and for the Arts, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, pg.46 June 12-18, Pasatiempo (New Mexico’s Magazine of Arts) Finders Sculptors, pg.47 Douglas Fairfield 2007 September 20, Phoenix New Times, Contain Yourself, pg.48, Lilia Menconi September 28, Surprise Today, Cube Shape Dominates Surprise Museum Exhibit, pg. B1-3, Staff Report 2003 September 7, The Arizona Republic, Five Artists to Watch, pg. E3, John Carlos Villani