Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Pratt Institute
Occupation(s)
Artist, curator
Known for
Painting
Spouse
Edward Balassanian
Sonia Balassanian (Persian: سونیا بالاسانیان, Armenian: Սոնյա Պալասանյան; born 1942) née Sonia Amirian, is an Iranian-born painter, sculptor, and curator, of Armenian ethnicity.[1] She co-founded the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art.[2][3] Balassanian lives in New York City and Yerevan.[3]
^ ab"بالاسانیان: هیچ هنری نیست که تا حدی انتزاعی نباشد / نقاش مقیم آمریکا مىگوید هیچگاه جلای وطن نکرده" [Balasanian: There is no art that is not abstract to some extent / the painter living in America says that he has never left his homeland]. honaronline.ir (in Persian). 2015-12-02. Archived from the original on 2015-12-02. Retrieved 2022-12-21.
^Zach, Elizabeth (2013-10-16). "A Mainstream Home for Alternative Art in Armenia". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-12-19.
^ abKassabian, Anahid (March 2013). Ubiquitous Listening: Affect, Attention, and Distributed Subjectivity. University of California Press. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-520-27515-7.
SoniaBalassanian (Persian: سونیا بالاسانیان, Armenian: Սոնյա Պալասանյան; born 1942) née Sonia Amirian, is an Iranian-born painter, sculptor, and curator...
capital of Armenia. ACCEA/NPAK was founded in 1992 by SoniaBalassanian and her husband Edward Balassanian, just after the collapse of the Soviet Union and...
Baghramian (born 1971), sculpture and mixed media artist, based in Berlin SoniaBalassanian (born 1942), Armenian-Iranian painter, sculptor, installation artist...
varying sizes, each standing on four lit lightbulbs; described by SoniaBalassanian, curator of the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art...