Masha Keryan is a Boston-based artist from Armenia. Keryan's work is informed by her cultural background with focus on the relationship with time, space and people after relocation. Her current work weaves elements of the inherited Armenian visual language, occasionally zooming in on the Post-Soviet Armenian identity, existing in the Western contemporary context. Masha is interested in exploring the properties and capabilities of oil paint.
Keryan holds a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Recent exhibitions include Above Liquidation (Atamian Hovsepian), Dancing Gems (Copley Society of Art), The Human Condition (SubCentral), Night and Day (Pellas Gallery) etc.
Photography: Mel Taing
Education
2016 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, BFA Painting
Bibliography
2024 Cover artist, Wasafiri Journal
2022 Cover artist, Armenian Review
2022 “Burnout”, Boston Art Review
2021 “Paintings of Armenian artist Masha Keryan displayed in Boston”, Moscow Museum of Armenian Cultural Inheritance
2021 “Night and Day” features the art of Masha Keryan, Armenian Weekly
2021 “An Armenian Painter’s Foray Into the Cryptic World of NFTs”, by Lilly Torosyan, The YVN Report
2021 Masha Keryan’s works are Concentrated Punches of Colous That Hit You With a Real Force, By Verity Babbs, The FAD Magazine
2020 Masha Keryan Is Having a Moment, By Leeza Yeritsian, The Armenian Weekly
Solo
2025 What Happens After, LabCentral, Boston
2024 Above Liquidation, Atamian Hovsepian, NYC
2022 Dancing Gems, Copley Society of Art, Boston
2021 The Human Condition, SubCentral, Cambridge
2021 Whether We Like It, AR exhibit, Arloopa App
2020 Alone together, Flowering Rock Gallery, SOWA
2017 Not Just Yet, Innovation and Design Center, Boston
2017 InstaVanitas, Market Casablanc, Boston
Select Group
2025 Wit's Pop, No Call No Show, Boston
2024 Phones are heavy, Space__Space, Boulder
2023 Member’s Show, Copley Society, Boston
2022 Hopscotch, Atlantic Warf Gallery, Boston
2022 MassArt Auction, MassArt, Boston
2021 Late Modern and Contemporary Masters, Pellas Gallery, Boston
2021 Night and Day, with Percy Fortini-Wright, Pellas Gallery, Boston
2021 Coded, Beacon Gallery, Boston
2020 Igloo time Duo, Brookline
2020 Shimmer, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston
2019 Eye Contact, Area Gallery, Boston
2017 Chaos, Red Sky Studios, Cambridge
2016 "Fantastik" Solo Performance + Installation, Skydeck, Boston
2016 Then and Now, Student Life Gallery, Boston
2016 Into It, Over It, Student Life Gallery, Boston
2016 MassArt All School Show Painting, DMC Gallery, Boston
2015 Perception’s Edge , R.E.S. Gallery, Boston
2015 MassArt All School Show Painting and Art History, Boston
2014 Reflect Glass Show, North Crackatorium, Boston
2013 All School Show, MassArt, Boston
2012 Boston Globe Scholastic Exhibition, The MA State Transportation Building
Awards
2023 Massachusetts Cultural Creative Grant
Events
2025 Trans Cultural Exchange Conference, Cambridge
2017 MIT Hacking Arts, MIT, Cambridge
2016 A Night At Skydeck, Skydeck, Boston
2016 There is a Garden And It Exists, Distillery Gallery, Boston
2016 MassArt All School Show, Boston
2016 Warhol, Studio 54” Painting Evening, Massart, Boston
2015 Perception’s Edge, R.E.S. Gallery, Boston