Zarouhie Abdalian (b. 1982) lives and works in New Orleans. She has exhibited her work at numerous international venues and biennials, including Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Artists Space, New York; Secession, Vienna; Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; KADIST, San Francisco; 2017 Whitney Biennial, New York; MOSTYN, Wales; the 5th Ural Industrial Biennial, Ekaterinburg, Russia; Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams; Prospect.3, New Orleans; the 8th Berlin Biennale; 9th Shanghai Biennale; CAFAM Biennale, Beijing; and the 12th Istanbul Biennial. Previous solo exhibitions include Pippy Houldsworth Gallery, London; Haynes Court, Chicago; Altman Siegel, San Francisco; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans; LAXART (The Brick), Los Angeles; The Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland; and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Abdalian was a recipient of a 2012 SECA Art Award; a 2017–2018 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grantee, and 2020 recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Painters and Sculptors Grant. She has held residencies at Exploratorium, San Francisco; Mills College, Oakland, CA; CCA York, AL; and Khoj, India. Abdalian’s work is held in public collections, including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA; and Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA. Select publications include Artforum, Art in America, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Art Review, and The Wire.