Keynotes
- International Encaustic Conference, Keynote Speaker, (June 10, 2023)
- Grantmakers in the Arts, 2022 Conference, Arts and Tech Keynote Session, in conversation with Kamal Sinclair (Oct 11, 2022)
- Artshub’s Visions 2020, Keynote Speaker (related: Meet our Keynote Speaker)
- American Craft Council, “Present Tense: 2019” Conference, Keynote Speaker (October 2019) (audio, concise summary)
Public Lectures & Panel Discussions
- “Critics of Empire: Negative Space and Complicity” as part of the Templeton Colloquium at UC Davis titled Cultural Heritage at Stake: Between Conservation and Criminality, University of California, Davis (February 21, 2025)
- “Roots Across Diasporan Time” with Aroussiak Gabrielian as part of the Artsakh Uprooted: Aftermaths of Displacement symposium at USC Dornsife, University of Southern California (November 2, 2024)
- “You Don’t Hate Me, You Hate Yourself and Other Epiphanies About Art Criticism in the 21st Century” as part of the Poynter Fellowship in Journalism at Leitner House, Pierson College, Yale University (October 3, 2024)
- Hrag Vartanian in Conversation with Shary Boyle at the Gardner Museum, Toronto, Canada (July 11, 2019)
- Chautauqua Visual Arts Lecture Series, “What the hell do art critics do?” (July 8, 2019)
- “The New Territories of Contemporary Art: Disturbing the Status-quo” lecture presented by East++ Institute for New Artistic Inquiry and Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase, NY (October 25, 2018)
In the Media
- Out of the Picture (2024), one of the primary subjects of feature-length documentary about art critics living through a period of transformation for both art and media
- “Remembering those lost to COVID-19,” BBC OS (September 11, 2020)
I was also invited to submit a remembrance of my aunt Zabel Hamalian for BBC World Service which gave me a space to mourn my beloved aunt in Syria - “Step inside the works of van Gogh with immersive exhibit in Montreal” CBC News (December 7, 2019)
- “Paris’s New Public Art Work by Jeff Koons” BBC World News (October 4, 2019)
- Banksy Does New York (2014), commentator in this HBO documentary about the street artist’s unofficial 2013 residency in New York City