Osheen Harruthoonyan

B. 1981, CANADIAN; Based in NEW YORK

Osheen Harruthoonyan stitches together arcs in time like a visionary and an historian where each new picture is re-living the future. In this infinite loop, the past is a foreign but familiar place, a flexible location between cultures and generations. Taking refuge in a broad range of scientific theories about reality, Harruthoonyan experiments with notions of home, migration and dislocation, the interplay between remembering and forgetting, and the possibilities for transformation and change. 

His popular series, Uchronie Fragments (2008), flirts with the fiction inherent in family histories and disconnects them from time and space. His elaborate process of dissecting negatives allows him to zoom in and out of an imagined continuum, and be no place and every place all at one time. A special, large-scale edition of Uchronie Fragments (2020), created in collaboration with De Soto Gallery, is now available.

Osheen Harruthoonyan (b. 1981, Tehran, Iran) has been featured in a number of international exhibits. Stories about his intricate process have appeared on Vice!, Bravo!Arts, the Space Channel, and the CBC's “Exhibitionists” series. After emigrating from Iran to Greece and Canada, Harruthoonyan now splits his time between Vancouver, BC and Brooklyn, New York.