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Extrait d’expositions:
2010 "Peintures", Galerie Nelly L'Eplattenier, Lausanne
2009 "Hidden wounds, paper bullets", Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, California
2009 "Our Stories/Nos Histoires", Musée d'hirsoire, La Chaux-de-Fonds (solo)
2009 "The mountain comes to me", Center for contemporary experimental art, Yerevan, Arménie (solo)
2009 “Man’s Inhumanity to Man”, Brand Library Art Galleries, Glendale, California
2008-09 "Jeanne Lombard et les artistes neuchâteloises, 1908-2008", Musée d'art et d'histoire de Neuchâtel
2007-08 68e biennale de la société des amis du Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds
2007 "Paysages symboliques, paysages construits, paysages rêvés"--EWZ, Zurich
2007 "Tu rêves?"--peintures, dessins et projection--Galerie YD, Neuchâtel (solo)
2006 "Maison sur Roues - House on Wheels" installation vidéo – Temple du Bas, Neuchâtel (solo)
2005 "Requiem pour le Génocide"—Union des Artistes Erevan, Arménie
2005 "One Hundred Years of Solitude, Chronicles of (Un-) Homely Labyrinths"—Sam Francis Gallery, Santa Monica, California
2004 "Our Stories"—Hoover High School, Glendale, California (solo)
2004 "VIIIsions"—University of California, Los Angeles
2004 "Arrival"—Articultural Gallery, West Los Angeles
2003 "From Ararat to America"—Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale, California
2003 "25 Years of Separation"—"Introductions" installation audio —Articultural Gallery, West Los Angeles
2001 "Ground Zero", Glendale, California
2000 "Multi-cultural background" installation vidéo — California State University, Los Angeles (solo)
2000 "Identity"— California State University, Los Angeles (solo)
1999 "Juried by Molly Barnes"—L.A. Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles
1998 "Video Show"—California State University, Los Angeles
1998 "Salon du Petit"—Gallery 825, West Los Angeles
1998 "Reflections '98"—Downey Museum of Art, Downey, California
1998 "Juried by Gronk"—Gallery 825, West Los Angeles
1998 "DADA '98"— Los Angeles
1998 "Box/Cross/Dismemberment/Genocide" performance—California State University, Northridge, California (solo)
1997 "Journey"—Artist to Artist Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
1989 "Kaleidoscope'89"—Juried Show, Glendale, California
1989 "Group Show"—Rico Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1988 "Group Show"—University of California, Los Angeles
1988 "Group Show"—Holly Street Gallery, Pasadena, California

Bourse:
2009 Office fédéral de la culture OFC, Suisse, Artists-in-Labs résidance d'art à Institute de l'intelligence artificielle, Lugano
2007 Office fédéral de la culture OFC, Suisse, Mediaprojects
2003 California Council for the Humanities, USA

Affiliation:
Visarte

Etudes - Formation:
1984 Licence, Art Plastiques, Université de Paris 8, Vincennes/Saint Denis
2000 Master of Arts, California State University, Los Angeles

Publications:
Sylvia Freda, 4 octobre 2007, "Alina Mnatsakanian, la Heidi d'Arménie", Neuchâtel, L'Express

Ramela Abbamontian, 2007, "The Diasporic Witness: Reconstructing Testimony in the Works of Contemporary Los Angeles Artists", Cultural and Ethical Legacies of the Armenian Genocide edited by Richard G. Hovannisian, Los Angeles, CA: Transaction Publishers

Basile Weber, August 23, 2006, "Un temple multi-culturel", Neuchâtel, Switzerland, L’Express

Ramela Abbamontian, 2006, “Crossing Borders and Imagining Home/land: Armenian Artists Construct a Diasporic Identity in Los Angeles” Shifting Borders, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Scholars Press.

Janet Samuelian, May 29, 2004, “Artist Mnatsakanian joins high schoolers for multi-media installation”, New York, NY: Armenian Reporter International

Gary Moskowitz, May 24, 2003, “Glendale youth tell their stories”, Los Angeles, CA: Los Angeles Times

Peter Frank, 2003, “From Ararat to America” exhibition catalog, Los Angeles

Janet Samuelian, December 30, 2000, “Southland art exhibitions mark end of the 20th century”, New York, NY: The Armenian Reporter International

Evelyn Renata Rueda, December 2000, “Soul expression through arts”, Los Angeles, CA:
University Times

Janet Samuelian, November 22, 1997, “Alina Mnatsakanian paintings, installations”, New York, NY: The Armenian Reporter International

Arus Shahbazian, December 11, 1997, “Mnatsakanian’s “Journey” into the inner reaches”, Glendale, CA: Asbarez Daily

“Our Stories”, California Council for the Humanities, www.calhum.org/programs/story_our_stories.htm