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DENISE YAGHMOURIAN
Born in Bethpage, New York, 1967

EDUCATION
1991: Bachelor of Fine Arts, School of Fine Art,  Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona

HONORS/AWARDS
Contemporary Forum Artist Grant, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009
Out of the Box, Zane Bennett Gallery, June 12 – July 17, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2007
Denise Yaghmourian, Bentley Gallery, August 23 - September 30,
Scottsdale, Arizona.
2006
Fancy Underwear, SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery, June 1 - 24,  Chelsea,
New York, New York.
2005
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
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, Arizona State University, November 1 - December 13, ASU Galleria, Tempe, Arizona.
Obsessions of the Heart, August 8 - September 21, Chandler Center for the Arts, Chandler, Arizona.
2001
New Work by D.Yaghmourian, November 1 - 28, Kerr Cultural Center, Scottsdale, Arizona.


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009
Partisan – Art Chicago, May 1 – 4, Chicago, Illinois.
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.
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,
Phoenix, Arizona.
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.
2004
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.
2003
7th Annual Artlink Juried Exhibition – An Exhibition of Leading  Contemporary Art in Arizona, November 7 – 28, – (Jurors: Brady Roberts/Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Phoenix Art Museum, Annie Lopez/Phoenix Arts Commission), Sixth Street Gallery, Phoenix, Arizona.
Ceres Gallery National Juried Exhibition, May 23 - June 15, Ceres Gallery, New York, New York.
2002
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

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