1. Melanya Hamasyan
US: (323) 360-7488
melanyahamasyan@gmail.com
melanyahamasyan.wordpress.com
Education:
2015 Bachelor of Arts in Art
University of California Santa Cruz
GPA: 3.80
2011- 2015 Dean’s Honor List,
2014 Armenian Studies Summer School, Summer
Intensive studies in Armenian history, literature, arts and culture
Work Experience, Research:
2014- 15 Director, Producer, Animator of social documentary short film,
Gyumri, in Light of Trauma
2014-15 Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship in the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery
2013 Director, Producer of social documentary video, De-historicized
2013 Prototyping Assistant, Independent Study with Gene Felice, Digital Arts & New Media
2013 Private Tutor in Armenia
2013 Cultural Director/ Cofounder of UCSC Armenian Student Association
2012 Lead Costume Designer(Owl), Independent Study with Eve Warnock, DANM
2012 Volunteer at AABC TV, American Armenian Broadcasting organization
2012 Coachart Volunteer
Solo Exhibitions:
2015 Reconstructing Gyumri Alumni Weekend exhibition of Social Documentary Animation
2015 Archeology of the Anthropocene, Santa Cruz Mini Galleries
2014 Transitory Frames – Dehistoricized Spaces, Santa Cruz Recording Studios
Group Exhibitions:
2015 In Motion exhibition Gyumri, Armenia, September
2015 Irwin 2015: Origins and Perceptions, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery
2015 Foraged Nostalgia, Sesnon Underground Gallery
2014 Bronzes, Eduardo Carrillo Gallery
2014 Pedagogy of the Ear: Sound and Social Practice, collaboration with the international
artist collective, Ultra-red and artist Elliot Anderson
2014 Public Art commission for plastic pollution awareness, Save Our Shores
2014 Performer in Herd, directed by Eve Warnock and Kate Spacek, Subzero Festival,
San Jose Subzero Festival
2013 Performer in Seekago, directed by Eve Warnock, Subzero Festival, San Jose
2011 Boys and Girls Club of Venice Exhibition Graphics Exhibition
2007 Surrealism Essay and Art competition, exhibition
2001 Association for Sustainable Human Development Youth Section Exhibition organized
by the United Nations, Exhibited in Johannesburg, South Africa

2. Curatorial:
2014-15 Co-founder and Curator of FILM | LIVES: 16mm film screening series
In collaboration with Canyon Cinema Foundation of San Francisco
12.10.14 avant garde on 16mm
2.13.15 film qua film: materiality of celluloid
2.27.15 truth of the grain: subjectivity in documentary
3.13.15 throwing light: a discourse in expanded cinema
4.10.15 memory-scapes: personal histories
4.24.15 meditations on violence: re-examining violence through cinema
2014-15 Curator of Sesnon Underground Gallery for Undergraduate students
Published Work:
2015 De-historicized, social documentary film, EyeCandy Film Journal
2015 Animated Video Kars 2 ( Wounds of Centuries), music by Tigran Hamasyan
Nonsuch Records Journal
Premiered in in les Rocks journal
Kultuur Estonian online journal
Illustration:
2011 EP n°1, Tigran Hamasyan, released by Universal Music France
2011 A Fable, Tigran Hamasyan, released by Verve International
2008 Aratta Rebirth, Tigran Hamasyan, released by Plus Loin Music
Press Coverage:
2014 Channel 8 KSBW News (02/12/14) Public Art Event with Save Our Shores
Awards & Grants:
2015 Irwin Scholars Award
2015 Dean’s Undergraduate Research Award
2014-15 Irwin Project Grant (three time recipient)
2014-15 Creative and Innovative Grant (two time recipient)
2015 Porter College Undergraduate Fellowships & Student Project Funds Grant
2014-15 Chancellor’s Undergraduate Internship Program Scholarship Recipient