Photo Credit: Aya Obaidi 2024
Arda Aslanian is an Armenian Jordanian architect and a visual artist, based in Amman. Much of her art explores the behavioral unwritten rules of beliefs, attitudes and influences in social groups or cultures. She also emphasizes the possibilities of the human body, with a particular prominence on the female form and the complexities of framing women within a patriarchal society.
Her art is the outcome of her constant questions and exploration of her being and belonging and her subjects act as mirrors for her innermost feelings.
Born in 1981 in Amman, Jordan. Since 2018 she participated in several local and international group exhibitions.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Solo Exhibitions
Oct 2024 “Obscured: Untold Stories | طيّات الخفاء”, Fann À Porter, Dubai, UAE
Group Exhibitions
Sept 2024 “Hive Minds”, The Artinerary, London, UK
Dec 2023 “Works on Paper”, Fann À Porter, Dubai, UAE
Oct 2023 “My Red Your Blue” Beyond the Borders, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea
May 2023 “Reality Show”, Fann À Porter in collaboration with ZAAT, Dubai, UAE
Oct 2022 “We The People”, Fann À Porter, Dubai, UAE
Aug 2022 “Figurative Art in Jordan”, The National Gallery of Fine Arts, Amman Jordan
April 2021 “YOU CANNOT ESCAPE FROM DESTINY” Online Exhibition, Curated by Lizzy Collier, London UK
Art Residencies
Nov 2024 17th Art & Nature Forum - by the Jordan National Galley of Fine Arts - 3 day residency forum at the Dead Sea, Jordan
Nov 2023 16th Art & Nature Forum - by the Jordan National Galley of Fine Arts - 4 day residency forum in Aqaba, Jordan
Aug 2023 15th Art & Nature Forum - by the Jordan National Galley of Fine Arts - 4 day residency forum in Dana Nature Reserve / South of Jordan
Oct 2020 “Laboratory of the Future” Residency at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine Arts - Goethe-Institute Jordan - 6 week residency project
June 2019 The Liquid Art of Forming the Formless Workshop - MMAG amman
April 2019 12th Art & Nature Forum - by the Jordan National Galley of Fine Arts - 3 day residency forum at the Jordan Valley
Art Fairs
Feb 2024 Art Cairo فن القاهرة - Represented by Fann À Porter Gallery at the Grand Egyptian Muesum - Egypt
Feb 2021 DarART Fair - Amman Jordan
News & Press
May 2023 Reality Show by Fann À Porter Dubai and ZAAT Beirut to focus on the now - Gulf Today
May 2022 ‘Breaking the Borders’ : Art with a message - Jordan News here
Sept 2021 In the Studio with Arda Aslanian - Interview by AucArt.com
May 2021 A Review in ArtmeJO by Zina Qabbani here
April 2021 YOU CANNOT ESCAPE FROM DESTINY at AucART by Lizzy Collier here
Oct 2020 “Laboratory of the Future” here, here & here
April 2019 12th Art & Nature Forum - the Jordan National Galley of Fine Arts - here & here
June 2018 In the Margin, by the Jordan National Galley of Fine Arts here
Visit the Studio
11 Kawkab Street - Amman JO
Hours
Saturday–Thursday
4:00pm–7:00pm
Phone
(962) 7955-26250