Born in San Francisco, California
Lives and works in San Francisco, California
Education
MFA, Painting/Drawing, University of California, Los Angeles
BA, Art Practice, University of California, Berkeley, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Solo Exhibitions
2022
Some Women: A Portrait With No Omissions, Meliksetian⎮Briggs, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Some Women, Meliksetian⎮Briggs, Los Angeles, CA
2014
A Good Line: I Can’t Live Without You, Meliksetian⎮Briggs, Los Angeles, CA
2013
What Goes Around Comes Around, Meliksetian⎮Briggs, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Dead, Headless and Female, curated by Anna Meliksetian, Gallery 3209, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions
2024
Meliksetian⎮Briggs, at Dallas Art Fair 2024, Dallas, TX
Closer to Illusion, curated by Luana Hildebrandt, Meliksetian⎮Briggs, Dallas, Tx
2023
Meliksetian⎮Briggs, at Dallas Art Fair 2023, Dallas, TX
2022
TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art, annual contemporary art auction, The Rachofsky House, Dallas, TX (catalogue)
Women Painting Women, curated by Andrea Karnes, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (catalogue)
Meliksetian⎮Briggs, at Dallas Art Fair 2022, Dallas, TX
2020
Art Auction 2020, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
ABOUT FACE, Week Three: Mirror Mirror, curated by Ali Subotnick, Gallery Platform LA, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Meliksetian⎮Briggs at Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2019, Santa Monica, CA
2016
SERVANE MARY AND AURA ROSENBERG: THE POP-UP POSTCARD PROJECT, JOAN, Los Angeles, CA
2014
anna meliksetian | MJBriggs at Dallas Art Fair 2014, Dallas, TX
Pieces of Heaven 2014, The Art of Elysium Art Auction, Siren Studios, Hollywood, CA
2012
Against the Grain, Mark Moore Gallery, Culver City, CA
ARTISTS MERCHANDISING ART, Wonderloch Kellerland Berlin/Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2011
INTERCHANGE: a group exhibition featuring John Baldessari, Rob Brander, Scott Marvel Cassidy, Mustafa Hulusi, CK Lyons, Chris Richmond, Jim Shaw, Jill Spector, Marnie Weber, and Peter Wu, curated by Anna Meliksetian, Exchange LA, Los Angeles, CA
Manifest 770, curated by Scott S. Jennings and mosshouse, Incline Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010
Specific, West Hollywood, CA
LACE Benefit Art Auction 2010, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Hollywood, CA
2009
Out of Time, Michael's Santa Monica, Santa Monica, CA
Silent Auction For The Public Option, Frank Pictures Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Ulli and Lucrecia's lustige Gruppenausstellung mit Party, Los Angeles 2009, 533 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Made For More, chime & co., Los Angeles, CA
2008
Something Like Change, chime & co., Los Angeles, CA
Groupshow with André Butzer, 1727 N. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA
2005
Luck of the Draw(ing), UCLA Department of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Art Works For Hard Money, GBE@Passerby, New York, NY
Supersonic, Windtunnel/ArtCenter, Pasadena, CA
MFA Thesis Exhibition, UCLA New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Figure 321, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Art's Good For You, Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Bibliography
Hill-Agnus, Eve, “The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s New Acquisitions Forge a Bold Path,” D Magazine, April 26, 2023, https://www.dmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2023/04/modern-art-museum-fort-worth-kehinde-wiley-sedrick-huckaby/
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Gould, Craig, “Episode 48: Artist Christiane Lyons,” Audio Podcast, Art Sense, Canvia, June 20, 2022, https://canvia.art/blogs/news/episode-48-artist-christiane-lyons
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Lectures
2022
Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, Tuesday Evenings at the Modern Lecture Series, September 20, 2020, Fort Worth, TX https://www.youtube.com/
Texas Christian University, Graduate Seminar (Virtual), Moderator: Andrea Karnes, Fort Worth, TX
Public Collections
de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Forth Worth, TX