Author: Ara Oshagan

Ara Oshagan is a multi-disciplinary visual artist, curator and cultural worker whose work sits at the fraught intersection of legacies of violence, diasporic identity, narrative, memory, community, and displacement.  He has published two books of photography and created multiple critically-acclaimed public art installations, projects and exhibitions. His works have been exhibited internationally and can be found in multiple public and private collections. Born in Beirut, Oshagan and his family were uprooted by the Lebanese civil war and he grew up in the US. At the core of his work is an exploration of his personal as well as collective history and lived experience of displacement and diaspora. He is currently the curator of City of Glendale ReflectSpace Gallery and lives in Los Angeles with his family.

The series presented here is from his book “displaced” to be released by Art/Photography publishers Kehrer Verlag in Germany. “displaced” is the third work in a diasporic trilogy that begins in Los Angeles, travels to Armenia/Karabagh and culminates in Beirut.