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Selected exhibitions:
2007 68e biennale de la société des amis du Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds
2007 "Landscape of Symbols , Landscape of Built Environment, Landscape of Dreams "--EWZ, Zurich
2007 "Tu rêves?"--paintings, drawings and projection --Galerie YD, Neuchâtel (solo)
2006 "House on Wheels" video installation– Temple du Bas, Neuchâtel, Switzerland (solo)
2005 "Requiem to the Genocide"—Artists' Union, Yerevan, Armenia
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" audio installation—Articultural Gallery, West Los Angeles
2001 "Ground Zero", Glendale, California
2000 "Multi-cultural background" video installation— California State University, Los Angeles (solo)
2000 "One Person Show: 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, 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

Grants:
2007 Office fédéral de la culture OFC, Switzerland
2003 California Council for the Humanities, USA

Education:
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