# Raffi Kalenderian

URL: https://vielmetter.com/biography/wrklst-raffi-kalenderian-14370/

1981 Born in Los Angeles, CA  Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA    2004 BFA, University of California, Los Angeles  Residency, Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild, CA 2007 Residency, St Barthélemy, French West Indies

**Selected Solo Exhibitions**

  2026 "Spotlight: Raffi Kalenderian," Vielmetter Los Angeles, CA 2025 "Bathers (Nothing Comes From Nothing)," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY 2024 "Eighteen With a Bullet," Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Paris, France 2023 "Raffi Kalenderian: Call The Curtain / Raise The Roof/ Spirits On Tonight," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY 2022 "Across the way moved in a pair , With passion in its prime, Maybe they look through to us, And hope that’s them in time," Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland  "Before The Moon Falls," Vielmetter Los Angeles, CA 2021 "Raffi Kalenderian," Nassima Landau Foundation, Tel Aviv, Israel 2020 "Raffii Kalenderian," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY 2019 "Memento Vivo," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA 2018 "Always in Rare Form," Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany ([Link](http://www.buchmanngalerie.com/exhibitions/raffi-kalenderian-0#start)) 2017 "Portraits," Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland ([Link](http://www.peterkilchmann.com/exhibitions/current/++/title/portraits/id/164/)) 2016 "For the Dead," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA  "Green River," Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy 2015 "To Walk Through the Night," Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland 2014 "Raffi Kalenderian," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA  "Raffi Kalenderian," Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany 2013 "Paint Work," Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany 2012 "Interior Life," Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland  "Currents, Undercurrents, and Maneuvers," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA 2011 "Raffi Kalenderian," Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy 2010 "Memoranda," Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland 2008 "Satellites," Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich, Switzerland 2007 "Palimpsest: Selected Works on Paper," Marc Jancou Fine Art, New York, NY 2006 "Wicked Waters," Medium, St. Barthlemy, French West Indies  "Born Under Punches," Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA

**Selected Group Exhibitions**

  2026-2027 "Selections from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection," The Juilliard School, New York, NY 2025 "OCEAN," Ezra Gallery, The Hamptons, Sag Harbor, NY 2024-2025 "All Bangers, All The Time," Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY 2024 "Oasis," La Loma Projects, Los Angeles, CA  "Overserved," Curated by Raffi Kalenderian and Alberto Cuadros, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY  "Raffi and Al’s Legendary Garden Party," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA  "New Works by Lavaughan Jenkins, Mario Joyce, Raffi Kalenderian, Kiriakos Tompolidis," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2023 "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA  "Horizon Line," ABR Contemporary, Miami Beach, FL 2022 "New Visions," Curated by Andrew Reed and Sophia Kardonski, THE LOVE YOU GALLERY, Miami, FL 2021 "In the Meanwhile…Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA  "Via Cafe," Tif Sigfrids, Comer, GA 2020 "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2019 "What is an edition, anyway?," McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA 2018 "Genius Loci", Setareh Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany  "To our Fellow Artists and Poets who are Confused About Which Way to Go,” Lundgren Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain 2017 "Hotel Kalifornia," Galerie Lefebvre & Fils, Paris, France  "Whats Up New York," LVH Art, New York 2016 "Painter’s Painters," Saatchi Gallery, London, UK  “A Verdant Summer,” Taymour Grahne, New York, NY  “Imagine,” Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy 2013 "Body Language," Saatchi Gallery, London, UK 2011 "Goldmine," curated by Christopher Scoates, UAM, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA 2010 "Crystal World," Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany  "Die Nase des Michelangelo," Galerie Peter Kilchmann at Marktgasse, Zurich, Switzerland  "Painting," curated by Roger Herman, LA Art House, Los Angeles, CA  "Portraits de Collectionneurs," Muro Gallery, Chtelaine, Switzerland  "Next Generation," Kunstmuseum St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland 2008 "L.A. Potential: HangArt 7," Salzburg, curated by Lioba Reddeker  "Faces and Figures (Revisited)," Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York, NY  "Stories: Portraits," Eleven Rivington, New York, NY  "Some Paintings: The Third (2007)," LA Weekly Annual Biennal, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2007 "Cali in CPH, Part ii: Bucket of Ice," Co-Lab, Copenhagen, Denmark  "Warhol &," Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006 "Fall," Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA  "Boat Show," High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA  "Just My Funny Way of Laughing," South La Brea Gallery, Inglewood, CA 2005 "Christmas in July," Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA 2004 "Walk You Home If You Walk Me Home Right After," Los Angeles, CA, curated by Eric Palgon  "Dear Summertime," Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA  "Living in the Ice Age," University of California, Los Angeles, CA 2003 "UCLA Undergraduate Juried Show," Official Selection, Los Angeles, CA  "New Work," University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

**Bibliography**

  2025 Miles McEnery Gallery. "In The Studio With Raffi Kalenderian And Friends," Artforum, May 1 2023 Artnet Gallery Network. "5 Trending Artists Grabbing the Attention of the Artnet Gallery Network This August," Artnet, August 4 2022 Kalenderian, Raffi. "Why This Art: Traveling Through Time with ‘The Portal of Rouen Cathedral in Morning Light’," Alta, December 21 ([Link](https://www.altaonline.com/culture/art/a42156083/why-this-art-claude-monet-raffi-kalenderian/))  Anderson, Mitchell. "Raffi Kalenderian’s Kaleidoscopic Compositions," Frieze, July 19 ([Link](https://www.frieze.com/article/raffi-kalenderian-peter-kilchmann-2022-review)) 2021 Soloski, Alexis. "What Megan Mullally Likes: Soft T-Shirts and Sad Songs," New York Times, Feb 9 2019 De Witt, Olivia. "Raffi Kalenderian," Artillery, June 26 ([Link](https://artillerymag.com/vielmetter-los-angeles-raffi-kalenderian/))  Irvin, Rebecca. "Raffi Kalenderian celebrates life in his exuberant, colourful, painted portraits," It’s Nice That, June 7 ([Link](https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/raffi-kalenderian-memento-vivo-art-070619))  McNay, Anna. "Raffi Kalenderian – interview: ‘It’s like banging your head against a brick wall, but if you get through to the other side it feels so good’," Studio International, June 4 ([Link](https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/raffi-kalenderian-interview-its-like-banging-your-head-against-brick-wall-memento-vivo-vielmetter)) 2018 Nash, David. "Kendall Wilkinson Outfits the $15.5 Million Penthouse at San Francisco’s 181 Fremont," Architectural Digest, October 30 ([Link](https://www.architecturaldigest.com/gallery/kendall-wilkinson-181-fremont-penthouse-15-million/all)) 2017 Mahony, Anna, “Must-See Art Guide: Zurich,” artnet news (web), December 14 ([Link](https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/zurich-art-guide-december-2017-1177682))  Black, Ezrha Jean, “Best in Show 2016,” Artillery, January/February ([Link](http://artillerymag.com/best-show-2016/)) 2016 Seed, John, “Raffi Kalenderian: ‘For the Dead,’ at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,” Huffington Post, August 23 ([Link](https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/raffi-kalenderian-for-the-dead-at-susanne-vielmetter_us_57bcf05de4b007f1819a421f))  Wagley, Catherine, “5 Free Art Shows to See in LA This Week,” LA Weekly (web), July 27 2015 Seed, John, “Collecting: Robert Shiell,” art ltd., March/April ([Link](https://www.docdroid.net/BWcPdKg/col-robert-shiell.pdf)) 2014 Shaw, Michael. "Raffi Kalenderian," ArtScene, July/August  "15 Young Art Stars to Keep Your Eye On," Complex, September 28 2012 Buckley, Annie, "Review: ‘Raffi Kalenderian: Currents, Undercurrents, and Maneuvers,’ " Art in America, April 2012  Raffi Kalenderian, Modern Painters, New York, April 2011 Latimer, Quinn. "The Nose of Michelangelo," Frieze, March, p. 142 2010 Raffi Kalenderian, Brand New Gallery, Milan, ex. cat.  So kommen Sie gut durch 2011, Art Basel Miami Beach, Eva Karcher, Sddeutsche Zeitung, Wochenende, Munich, No. 303, Dec. 31, p. 5  Raffi Kalenderian, Kunst 10 Zrich, Zurich, Nov. 11 14, pp. 84 85 cat.  Eine kleine Dsternis ist immer da, Ruth Hndler, Capital, Hamburg, No. 9, p. 135  Portraits de Collectionneurs, Tindaro Gagliano, Muro Gallery, Chtelaine, ex.cat.  Meier, Philipp. "Monumentalitt und Zuversicht," NZZ, Zurich, Oct. 16, p. 57 2009 Raffi Kalenderian, Frieze Yearbook, London, England  Meltzer, Burkhard. "Raffi Kalenderian," Frieze, March 2008 Reddeker, Lioba. "L.A. Potential: HangArt 7," Basis Wien, Austria  Kugelman, Kerry. "Raffi Kalenderian at Black Dragon Society," Art Ltd., May  Truong, Hong-An. "A Look at Raffi Kalenederian," Artslant, March  Harvey, Doug. "Some Paintings," LA Weekly, January

**Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books**

  2010 Portraits de Collectionneurs, text by Tindaro Gagliano. Muro Gallery, Châtelaine, Switzerland  Raffi Kalenderian: Memoranda, text by Doug Harvey, Nieves Books, Zurich (monograph)

**Public Collections**

   Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA  Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA  Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA  Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN  Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA