SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
 
2026
Nature 2026, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo, South Korea.
Contemporary Landscapes: From Observational to Symbolic, Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA (curated by Boriana Kantcheva, Director of Visual Arts)

2024
Peeling The Onion : Visual Reminders, Elza Kayal Gallery, New York, New York.
Vantage Points, Sheen Center For Thought & Culture, New York, New York (curated in collaboration with Kevork Mourad)
Entwined, Visual & Textural Narratives, Mosesian Center for the Arts, Watertown, MA (curated by Boriana Kantcheva, Director of Visual Arts)
National Collage Society: 40th Annual Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (juried by David Adix, Collage and Assemblage Artist, Tuscon, AZ, Jennifer Bates, Assistant Professor, Fine Arts and Graphic Design, Hawkeye Community College, Waterloo, IA, Nikki Woods, Director of Reinberger at Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH)
8 x 8, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS (juried by Vanessa German, American artist, poet, writer and activist, NC)
 
2020
Wom^n: Women’s Representation in Visual Art, 22 North Gallery, Ypsilanti, MI (curated by Melanie Tassone, Elena SV Flys, Assistant Professor of Arts Administration and Entertainment Management at Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI) 
 
2019
Landed: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University, Framingham, MA (Jessica Roscio, Curator, Danforth Art Museum)
Fragments: Collaging the Material World, Chandler Gallery, Cambridge, MA (curated by Annie Silverman)
2019 National Collage Society’s 35th Annual Exhibit, Mercyhurst University, Erie, PA, (curated by Janet Maher, Professor Emeritus of Art, Loyola University, Baltimore MD, Chuck Scalin, Professor Emeritus and Former Assistant Chair of the Communication Arts and Design Department at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, Anderson Turner, Director, School of Art Collection and Galleries, Manager of the NCS Signature Members Permanent Teaching Collection, Kent, OH)
unfoldingobjects, Concord Art, Concord, MA (curated by Todd Bartel, Director of The Thompson Gallery, The Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA {catalogue})
 
2018/2019         
Arts Connect 2018, Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, VT (curated by Nick Capasso, Director, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA)
National Collage Society Juried Online Exhibition, www.nationalcollage.com/2018.html, (curated by Gianna Commito, Associate Professor of Art, Kent State University, Kent, OH, Catherine Nash, MFA, University of Arizona, Cecil Touchon, Founding Member of 1987 Post Dogmatist Group, International Society of Assemblage and Collage Artists, Santa Fe, NM)      
 
2018                                          
Finding Home: The Global Refugee Crisis, UCF Gallery, Orlando, FL (catalogue)
Investigating Identity, Concordia University, Ann Arbor, MI (juror: Nancy Thayer)
A House Divided, The Rouse Company Foundation Gallery, Columbia, MD (curated by Thomas Engleman, Gallery Director)
2018 National Prize Show, Cambridge Art, Cambridge, MA (curated by Michelle Grabner, Crown Family Professor in Painting and Drawing, The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Jessica Hong, Assistant Curator, ICA Boston, Boston, MA, Jamilla Jones, Curator, ICA LA, Los Angeles CA)                                 
                                     
2017-2018 
Member’s Show 2017, Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ (curated by Mary Birmingham, Curator, Visual Arts  Center, New Jersey, Summit, NJ)                   
                                                       
2017                                          
National Collage Society Juried Exhibition 2017, Union Street Gallery, Chicago Hts, IL (jurors: Cory Peeke, Artist, David Adix, Artist, Laura Lein-Svencer, Artist {catalogue})
Where I Come From, Ohio University Art Gallery, Athens, OH (juror: Hans Gindlesberger, Artist)
Blanche Ames National Juried Exhibition, Ames Mansion Museum, North Easton, MA  (juried by Theresa Ganz, Artist{catalogue})
Tell Me A Story, Foundry Art Centre, Saint Charles, MO (juried by Jason Bly, Artist) Arts Connect 2017, Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, VT (curated by Andrea Rosen, Curator, Fleming Museum of Art, Burlington, VT {online catalogue})
Up/Rooted, Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA (juror: Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons, Artist)
 
2016              
Home, ARC Gallery, Chicago, IL (curated by Trevor Martin, Director of Exhibitions/Associate Curator School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Asha Veal Brisebois, Curator)
National Collage Society Juried Exhibition, Kent State University, Kent, OH (juried by Carolyn Grosh, Associate Curator, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, MartinBall, Artist, Miles Conrad, Director, Conrad Wilde Gallery, Tuscon,AZ {catalogue})                                         
Interrupted, Ashland University, Ashland, OH (curated by Cynthia Petry, Director,Coburn Gallery at Ashland University)
Danforth Art Annual Juried Exhibition, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA (curated by Jessica Roscio, Curator, Danforth Art Museum/School{catalogue})
New England Collective VII, Galatea Gallery, Boston, MA (juried by Julie Burros, Chief of Art and Culture at City of Boston.)
Blanche Ames National Juried Exhibition, Ames Mansion Museum, North Easton, MA  (curated by Todd Bartel, Director of the Thompson Gallery, The Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA {catalogue})
Lips of Pride, HAYP Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia (curator: Anna Gargarian, Curator and Executive Director, HAYP Gallery)
                                                 
2015                                          
Arts Connect: Juried Exhibition, Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury,Vermont (curated by Katherine French, Gallery Director, Catamount Arts {online catalogue})
Off The Wall, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA (curated by, Katherine French, Director Emerita, Danforth Art {online catalogue})
58th Chautauqua Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Strohl Art Center, Chautauqua, NY (curated by, Hrag Vartanian, Critic, Curator, Editor-in-Chief, Hyperallergic)
Art by America: A National Review of 2-D Contemporary Art, Art House, Chicago, IL (curated by, James Yood, Writer, Art Forum, Ginny Voedisch)
Arts Worcester Biennial, Aurora Gallery, Worcester, MA (curated by Susan Stoops, Independent Curator)
Kiss The Ground, Cambridge School of Weston, (curated by Todd Bartel, Director of The Thompson Gallery, The Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA {catalogue})
The Future of the Past: A History Ignored, Leslie University, Cambridge, MA
Celebrating the Transformative Power of Art, Doric Hall, Massachusetts State House, Boston, MA
Art Speaks Truth To Power, 100 Mass Avenue Gallery, Cambridge College, Cambridge, MA Pursuing Justice Through Art, Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA
 
2014-2015                                  
A New Armenia, Part 1, Armenian Museum of America, Watertown, MA
(curated by Todd Bartel, Director of The Thompson Gallery, The Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA {catalogue})
 
2014                                          
{___+____}, {____+____}, {____+____}: A Collage Show @(SCENE),
(SCENE) Metrospace, East Lansing, MI (juried by Michelle Word, Director of Education at the Broad Art Museum, Lansing, MI)
Community Of Artists, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA (curated by Katherine French, Director, Danforth Museum {online catalogue})
 
2013                                          
New England Collective IV, Galatea Gallery, Boston,MA(Juried by Kaveh Mojtabai, Founder and Publisher of Artscope Magazine, Brian Goslow, Managing Editor, Artscope Magazine)
Off The Wall, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA (juried by Dina Deitsch, Curator of Contemporary Art,  DeCordova Sculpture Park & Museum{catalogue})
Drawing Out of Bounds, Beard & Weil Galleries, Wheaton College, Norton, MA (juried by Judith Tannenbaum, Curator of Contemporary Art at RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI)
Pursuing Justice Through Art, Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA
 
2012
Fragile Navigation, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA (curated by Katherine French, Director, Danforth Art  Museum)
77th Regional Exhibition of Art and Craft, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA (curated by Susan Stoops, Curator of Contemporary Art, Worcester Art Museum, Dana Salvo, Owner, Clark Gallery and Jamie Coyle)
Collage at 100, Cambridge School of Weston, Weston, MA (curated by Todd Bartel, Director of The Thompson Gallery {catalogue})
Off The Wall, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA (juried by Cody Hartley, Curator, Director, Gifts of Art Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA{catalogue})            
2nd Annual Art Competition, Hammond Museum, New Salem, NY (juried by Miwako Tezuka, Associate Curator, Asia Society, Monica Ramirez-Montagut, Curator, Aldrich Museum of Art, Rocio Arando-Avarado, Curator, El Museo del Barrio)
 
2011                                          
New England Collective II, Galatea Gallery, Boston, MA (curated by Joanne Mattera, Artist, Curator, Writer)
Chain Letter Show, Samson Projects, Boston, MA
5th Annual Affairs of the Art, School of The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (juried by Al Minor, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA and Patty Adams) 
Off The Wall, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA (juried by Susan L. Stoops, Independent Curator {catalogue})
 
2010
61st Annual Artists Ball, ICO Gallery, New York, New York 
The Armenian Genocide – 95 Years Later, In Remembrance, University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI
                                                 
2007
Artist collaboration with musicians from the band, The Everyday Visuals, Paradise Club, Boston, MA
 
2005                                          
Small Works: A National Juried Art Exhibition, Attleboro, MA juried by Kristin Dodge, Independent Curator, and Paul  Lam)
90th Anniversary Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide of 1915, Z Gallery, Providence, RI
             
2002                                          
9th Annual Juried Show, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA (juried by David Sullivan, Director, Genovese Sullivan Gallery  Contemporary Art)              
 
2000
7th Annual Juried Show, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA (juried by Barbara O’Brien, Director, Monserrat Galleries  Beverly, MA
 Ex Umbris Ad Lucem, Thoreau Gallery, Franklin Pierce College, Rindge, NH (curated by Lorettann Devlin Gascard, Curator, Thoreau Gallery)
 
1999
Art in the Round Barn, Green Mountain Cultural Center, Waitsfield, VT (juried by Bill Brauer, George  Pearlman, Mary Morris)
                                                                                                                                               
1998
National Drawing 1998, College of New Jersey Art Gallery, Trenton, NJ (curated by Dot Paolo, Artist) 
 
1997
Altered Images, A Juried Exhibition of Four Artists’ Works, Lowell Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Fin de Siecle, Trends of the Nineties, Lowell Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA (curated by 
Barbara Krakow, Director of Barbara Krakow Gallery
 
1996
Semi-Finalist, New England/New Art Talent Competition, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA
 
1994                                          
Juried Exhibition, School of The Museum of Fine Arts/Grossman Gallery, (Juried by 
Gerard Bush, Freya Hansell, John Tracey)
 
1993
First Expressions, Boston, MA ( Juried by Arthur Dion, Director, Gallery Naga, Wendy Kaplan, Eva Zervos)
Invitational Exhibition, Armenian Library & Museum, Watertown, MA
Alternate Visions, A Juried Exhibition of Five Artists’ Works, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA
 
1992                                          
Impressions: Photography, & Prints by New England Artists, Attleboro Art Museum, Attleboro, MA (juried by Catherine Mayes)
 
1991
Contemporary Visions: Works by 7 Belmont Arts Lottery Grant Recipients, Kendall Center For The Arts, Belmont, MA
New Members Show, Lowell Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA           
 
1990                   
Photo & Graphics: Juried Exhibition, Lowell Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA                            
Fall Salon: Members’ Show, Lowell Street Gallery, Cambridge, MA                                      Inspired Images: Juried Exhibition, Architect’s Gallery, Warren, RI 
36th Annual International Juried Art Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San
Diego, CA ( juried by Claire Falkenstein )                    
Contemporary Collage: Opening the 90’s, Brush Gallery, Lowell, MA                
 
 
AWARDS                                         
 
2018
Honorarium, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL                                                               

2017
National Collage Society Award, National Collage Society, Chicago Heights, IL
 
2015
Honorable Mention, Arts Connect, Catamount Arts, St. Johnsbury, VT (Curated by Katherine French, Gallery  Director, Catamount Arts)
Massachusetts Local Cultural Council Grant, Administered by the Belmont Cultural Council
             
2010                                          
Massachusetts Local Cultural Council Grant, Administered by the Belmont Cultural Council
 
2003                                          
Honorarium, Emerson College, Boston, MA
 
2001                                          
Professional Development Grant, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Boston, MA
Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grant, Administered by the Belmont Cultural Council, Belmont, MA
Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
                                                 
2000
Award of Excellence, Essex Art Center Annual Juried Show Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA (juror: Barbara O’Brien, Director Of The Gallery & Visiting Artist Program, Monserrat College of Art)
                                     
1996
Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grant, Administered by the Belmont Cultural Council, Belmont, MA
 
1991                                          
Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grant, Group Exhibition, “Contemporary Visions: Works by 7 Belmont Arts Lottery Grant  Recipients.” In collaboration with the Kendall Center For The Arts, administered by The Belmont Arts Lottery, Belmont, MA
Massachusetts Arts Lottery Grant, Administered by the Belmont Cultural Council, Belmont, MA
 
1990                                          
Honorable Mention, 36th Annual International Art Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute, San Diego, CA ( juror: Claire  Falkdenstein, Artist)
Best of Medium: Photography, Architects Galleries, Warren, Rhode Island
 
 
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
 
2015                                          
In Search of Truth, Belmont Public Library, Belmont, MA  Belmont Cultural Council Grant Exhibition.  
                                                 
2010                                          
New Works, Belmont Memorial Library, Belmont, MA Belmont Cultural Council Grant Exhibition.
 
2003                                                             
Textures of Memory, Emerson College, Boston, MA
 
2002
One Vision/One Voice, Tufts University, Medford MA
Works on Paper, Middlesex Community College, Bedford, MA


EDUCATION

School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Fine Arts classes, 1993-2014                        Tufts University, Medford, MA 1980.  B.S. in Psychology with concentration in Fine Arts, Honors: cum laude; Dean’s List.

REVIEWS/PUBLICATIONS
AX Mina, “Four Artists’ Pictures of an Unspeakable Past,” Hyperallergic, May 28, 2024.
https://hyperallergic.com/919950/four-artists-pictures-of-an-unspeakable-past-in-peeling-the-onion-elza-kayal-gallery/
 
AX Mina, “Five New York Shows to See Before June Ends,” Hyperallergic, June 16, 2024. https://hyperallergic.com/925932/five-new-york-shows-to-see-before-june-2024-ends/
 
Christopher Atamian, Vantage Points: Four Diasporan Artists on View at The Sheen Center, Armenian Mirror Spectator, March 4, 2024.  https://mirrorspectator.com/2024/03/14/vantage-points-four-diasporan-artists-from-on-view-at-thesheen-center/
 
National Collage Society’s Online Exhibition Catalog, MD: Maryland Institute College of Art, https://www.nationalcollage.com/2024-juried-exhibit
 
National Collage Society’s Online Exhibition Catalog, PA: Mercyhurst University, nationalcollage.com/2019
 
Bartel, Todd, “Unfoldingobject-The Art of Collage,” Exhibition Catalog: Massachusetts: Concord Art & Todd Bartel, 2019.
   
Watson, Keri, “Finding Home: The Global Refugee Crisis” Catalog, Florida: University of Central Florida Art Gallery, 2018, pp. 20-25.
 
Martins, J. Fatima, “A Welcome Reopening: Greatly Missed, The Danforth Is Back,” Artscope Magazine, May/June 2019, P. 3
 
Becker, Erin, “National Prize Show 2018” Catalog, Massachusetts: Cambridge Art Association, 2018.
 
Katz, Marni Elyse “Small Works Big Impact,” Illustration, Boston Globe, Boston, MA, November 11, 2017, p. B-2.
 
National Collage Society’s Online Exhibition Catalog, Illinois: Union Street Gallery, 2017.
 
“The 14th Annual Blanche Ames National Art Exhibition 2017” Catalog, Massachusetts: The Ames Mansion Museum, 2017.
 
Karen Musgrave, “Adrienne Der Marderosian,” Connections by Karen Musgrave, January 3, 2017. https://connectionsbykaren.blogspot.com/2017/01/adrienne-der-marderosian.html
 
National Collage Society’s Online Exhibition Catalog, Ohio: Kent State University, https://www.kent.edu/art/event/national-collage-society-32nd-annual-juried-exhibit
 
Bartel, Todd, “Kiss The Ground: A New Armenia 3,” Exhibition Catalog, Massachusetts: Thompson Gallery, 2016.
 
“The 13TH Annual Blanche Ames National Art Exhibition 2016” Catalog, Massachusetts: The Ames Mansion Museum, 2016.
 
Martins, J. Fatima, “An Off The Wall Community of Artists,” ArtScope  Magazine, July/August 2015, p. 33.
 
McQuaid, Cate, “Armenia, Africa Stamp Their Past On Art,” Boston Globe, May 26, 2015.
 
Bartel, Todd, “Kiss The Ground: A New Armenia 3,” Exhibition Catalog, Massachusetts: Thompson Gallery, 2016.
 
Armenian Mirror-Spectator Commemorative Edition, Illustration, Watertown, MA, April 25, 2015, p. 9.
 
Martins, J. Fatima, “Kiss The Ground: Finding A New Armenia,” ArtScope Magazine, January/February 2015, p. 37.
 
Bartel, Todd, “Kiss the Ground-A New Armenia,” Exhibition Catalog (Cover
Art), Massachusetts: Thompson Gallery, 2015, (p.3, pp.18-21)
                                              
“Community Of Artists” Online Exhibition Catalog, Massachusetts: Danforth Art, 2014.
 
Frank Juarez Gallery and Grey Matter Collaboration Project, “Adrienne Der   Marderosian-Boston, Massachusetts,” 365 Artists/365 Days (blog), February 21, 2014. https://365artists365days.com/2014/02/21/adrienne-der-marderosian-boston-massachusetts/
 
Kaye, Marjorie, “New England Collective IV,” Artist Portfolio Magazine Online Magazine: August 12, 2013.
 
Michelman, Elizabeth, “The Wheaton Biennial: Drawing out of Bounds At Wheaton College,” Artscope Magazine Blogspot, April, 2013.
 
Bartel, Todd, foreword, “Strange Glue: Collage at 100,” Exhibition Catalog,  Massachusetts: Thompson Gallery, 2012, (p.142).
 
“Off The Wall” Online Exhibition Catalog, Massachusetts: Danforth Art Museum,  2011, 2012, 2013.
 
Continuing Ed Catalog, Massachusetts: School of the Museum of Fine Arts Fall, 2011, P. 19, illus., Fall 2012.

College Art Association News, “Grants, Awards & Honors,” November, 2010.
 
College Art Association News, “Solo Exhibits by Artist Members,” November, 2010.
 
“90th Anniversary Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide of 1915,”  Exhibition Catalog, Rhode Island, Z Gallery, 2005.
 
Richard Craven, “Ex Umbris Ad Lucem,” Art New England
December 2000 /January 2001, (p.44)
 
Rigby, Bruce, foreword. “1998 National Drawing Exhibition,” Exhibition Catalog, New Jersey: College of New Jersey, 1998.
 
Kate Schultz, “Art Association Members Exhibit Alternate Visions,” Cambridge Chronicle, November 1992, (p.20).
 
Meredith Fife Day, “Artists Go Public With Help Of Lottery Funding,” Belmont Citizen Herald, September 1991, p.7B, illus) 
 
 
AFFILIATIONS

College Art Association, New York, New York
National Collage Society, Hudson, Ohio
 
 
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
 
Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
Hammond Museum, North Salem, New York