About

Jackie Kazarian is a Chicago-based visual artist working primarily in painting, installation and video.  She received a BS in Zoology from Duke University and a MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has held numerous solo exhibitions, including New York, Chicago, Miami, Spain, Syria and Kuwait.  Her work is in many private and public collections, including Illinois State Museum, Rockford Art Museum, Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority, Chicago Public Library, and the United States Embassy, Armenia. In 2019, Jackie received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Armenian Behavioral Science Association. She is a 2008 fellow of the Ellen Stone Belic Institute for the Study of Women & Gender in the Arts & Media at Columbia College Chicago and has served two tours as an art envoy for the U.S. State Department, presenting workshops, lectures and exhibitions in Kuwait and Syria.  In 2015, Kazarian created a monumental painting to commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the Armenian genocide.