Bio & CV
Hrayr Anmahouni Eulmessekian
email: ehrayr@yahoo.com
Website: www.ehrayr.com
Biographical notes & CV
Born in Beirut Lebanon 1958
Moved to San Francisco in 1984
Moved to Los Angeles in 2005
Education
MFA Film, San Francisco Art Institute 1992
BFA Film, San Francisco Art Institute 1989
Academie Libanaise Des Beaux-Arts 1981-1984
Resumé
"Vahe Oshagan: Between Acts"
Screening invitations & Q&A panels:
UC Berkeley (via Zoom) 2020
UMich Ann Arbor 2020
Columbia University 2019
Gulbenkian Foundation Lisbon
in conjunction with Modern Languages Association 2019
UCLA/Hamazkayin 2017
AUA Yerevan 2016
“Vahe Oshagan Redux”
UC Berkeley 2014
Peniche Anaco, Paris 2012
"Art of Diaspora" with Dr. Marc Nichanian
A weeklong event discussing the state of contemporary Diasporan
and Armenian art, criticism and intellectual thought.
Event Catalog
Rosslin Gallery , Glendale CA 2016
“Bruitage” and “The Concession Stand”
with Arpine Konyalian Grenier, Glendale Public Library 2011
"Solemnity" Blind Dates Project
‘Re-visiting the Ottoman Legacy’ Pratt Manhattan 2010
“Solemnity” at Sharjah Biennial (UAE), March Meeting 2010
“Bruitage” at Sharjah Biannual /Art Dubai,
curated by Rasha Salti 2009
San Francisco Armenian Film Festival 2006
San Francisco Cinematheque 2005
Anthology Film Archives NY 2004
San Francisco Armenian Film Festival 2004
Glendale Public Library, Glendale CA 1995
Conspicuously Chronicled, Los Angeles CA 1988
Artist Talk and Panel Presentations
UMich Ann Arbor, artist talk 2020
Inalco Paris 2018
Blind Dates Project, Pratt Manhattan 2010
Arts In the One World conference, Brown University 2010
“Solemnity” at Sharjah Biennial (UAE), March Meeting 2010
Conference On Armenian Diaspora
Boston University (panel chair) 2010
Diaspora and Its Discontents, Columbia U, NY 2008
Filmography
Bruitage Video 58min. 2006
Centerfold Corner-crack Reflection 9min 2006
On Background Video 6 min. 2005
(translated) Tebi Gyank Video 25 min. 1995
San Andrea’s Fault Dual-channel video 1992
History Docudrama Video 1991
Cool Breeze Docudrama Video 1989
T/T(V) 16mm Film, and video installation 1988
Still Fan 16mm Film, fan and wind installation 1988
0 Ring Super 8 film 1986
Multi disciplinary work
“Space Release” deep fading spaces ongoing since 1988
“On Deep Background” 1 1997-2001
“On Deep Background” 2 2001-2006
“On Deep Background” Installation 1998
Coups de grace bullet holes & silkscreen 2001
Commissioned productions
Vahe Oshagan: Between Acts Documentary 2006
(Pa.ga.kitz) Documentary 1995
Vahe Oshagan jubilee commemoration video 1994
Grants
2004 San Francisco Armenian Film Festival MGM/UA grant
2006 San Francisco Armenian Film Festival City of San Francisco Arts Grant
2010 Blind Dates Project NYFA
2015 Vahe Oshagan: Between Acts Gulbenkian Foundation
2016 Art of Diaspora Gulbenkian Foundation
Curatorial
Founding member and curator of the San Francisco Armenian Film Festival 2003
Co-Founder “Desnelle Collective” 2008
Interviews and Reviews
On Deep Background
Raffi Adjemian, Asbarez Daily 1998
A conversation with Hrayr Eulmessekian Gam Review #6 2005
Prof. Marc Nichanian, Chair Armenian Studies Program, Columbia University
Art Endings Gam Review #6 2005
Prof. Anahid Kassabian
James and Constance Alsop Chair
School of Music
University of Liverpool
Spotlighting the Exclusions of Cultural Memory
A Collaborative Effort by the Filmmaker Eulmessekian and the Poet Grenier
Talar Chahinian
Critic's Forum, Asbarez Daily February 2012
Bruitage 2012
by Neery Melkonian, Seismopolite Journal of Art and Politics