Masha Keryan (b. Yerevan, Armenia) is a Boston-based artist with a research-driven visual system for examining how identity survives pressure. Drawing on Armenian and American experiences, her work investigates the ways bodies, rituals, and symbols carry and transform memory under conditions of rupture, displacement, and endurance. Rooted in observation, Keryan’s practice moves across domains including cultural histories, athletics and rituals, using painting as a primary site to construct and test this evolving visual language.
Keryan holds a BFA from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Photography: Mel Taing
Education
2016 Massachusetts College of Art and Design, BFA Painting
Solo
2025 What Happens After, LabCentral, Boston
2024 Above Liquidation, Atamian Hovsepian, NYC
2022 Dancing Gems, Copley Society of Art, Boston
2021 The Human Condition, SubCentral, Cambridge
2021 Whether We Like It, AR exhibit, Arloopa App
2020 Alone together, Flowering Rock Gallery, SOWA
2017 Not Just Yet, Innovation and Design Center, Boston
2017 InstaVanitas, Market Casablanc, Boston
Group
2026 Misfits: Lavaughan Jenkins and Masha Keryan, Trustman Art Gallery, Simmons University
2025 Wit's Pop, No Call No Show, Boston
2024 Phones are heavy, Space__Space, Boulder
2023 Member’s Show, Copley Society, Boston
2022 Hopscotch, Atlantic Warf Gallery, Boston
2022 MassArt Auction, MassArt, Boston
2021 Late Modern and Contemporary Masters, Pellas Gallery, Boston
2021 Night and Day, with Percy Fortini-Wright, Pellas Gallery, Boston
2021 Coded, Beacon Gallery, Boston
2020 Igloo time Duo, Brookline
2020 Shimmer, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston
2019 Eye Contact, Area Gallery, Boston
2017 Chaos, Red Sky Studios, Cambridge
2016 "Fantastik" Solo Performance + Installation, Skydeck, Boston
2016 Then and Now, Student Life Gallery, Boston
2016 Into It, Over It, Student Life Gallery, Boston
2016 MassArt All School Show Painting, DMC Gallery, Boston
2015 Perception’s Edge , R.E.S. Gallery, Boston
2015 MassArt All School Show Painting and Art History, Boston
2014 Reflect Glass Show, North Crackatorium, Boston
2013 All School Show, MassArt, Boston
2012 Boston Globe Scholastic Exhibition, The MA State Transportation Building
Bibliography
2026 “To Float like Butterflies: Masha Keryan and Lavaughan Jenkins Recast the Boxer for a Contemporary Moment” by Lynne Cooney, Boston Art Review
2025 ‘What Happens After,’ Masha Keryan’s art of resilience and renewal, to be displayed at 1832 Gallery, Armenian Weekly
2024 Cover artist, Wasafiri Journal
2022 Cover artist, Armenian Review
2022 “Burnout”, Boston Art Review
2021 “Paintings of Armenian artist Masha Keryan displayed in Boston”, Moscow Museum of Armenian Cultural Inheritance
2021 “Night and Day” features the art of Masha Keryan, Armenian Weekly
2021 “An Armenian Painter’s Foray Into the Cryptic World of NFTs”, by Lilly Torosyan, The YVN Report
2021 Masha Keryan’s works are Concentrated Punches of Colous That Hit You With a Real Force, By Verity Babbs, The FAD Magazine
2020 Masha Keryan Is Having a Moment, By Leeza Yeritsian, The Armenian Weekly
Lectures
2026 Trustman Gallery at Simmons University, Boston
2025 LabCentral, Cambridge
2025 Armenian Embassy to United Kingdom, London
2022 ArtsLinks Hamazkayin, LA
2022 Midway Artist Studios, Boston
2021 Machanenc School, Armenia