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Rachel Lee Hovnanian

Rachel Lee Hovnanian is a New York-and Miami-based artist whose multidisciplinary practice explores the complexities of modern feminism, cultural ideals regarding physical perfection, and the psychological effects of new media and technology.

Born in Parkersburg, West Virginia, and raised in Houston, Texas, she received her BFA from the University of Texas, Austin, and completed postgraduate studies at the Parsons School of Design in New York. Recently, Hovnanian has been the subject of several solo exhibitions in Italy, where she has lived and worked for several months every year for the past decade. These include a one-woman museum show at the Palazzo Mediceo di Seravezza (2019), a large-scale installation at the Church of San Cristoforo in Lucca (2020), as well as an exhibition in Pisa at the Church of Santa Maria della Spina in 2021. With The Women’s Trilogy Project, a three-part solo presentation at Leila Heller Gallery (her representation since 2006) in 2018, Hovnanian became one of the only female artists to be given three consecutive exhibitions at a New York gallery. She has exhibited internationally in solo exhibitions in the United States, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, at venues including Leila Heller Gallery, New York and Dubai; Pechersky Gallery, Moscow; Joyce Gallery, Beijing; and Fundación Pons, Barcelona. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the United States Embassy in Budapest, Hungary; Parasol Unit Foundation, London; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines; Imago Galleries, Palm Springs; Manarat Al Saadiyat, Abu Dhabi; Loretta Howard Gallery, New York (curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody); and at the Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor; among other venues. Hovnanian’s work resides in numerous private and public collections, including the Multimedia Art Museum, the Moscow Collection, the collections of the Royal Family of Dubai, the Mallin Collection, the collection of Lily Safra, the collection of Darren Walker, the corporate collections of AT&T, Dior, Graff Diamonds, TD Bank, and the 21c Museum Hotels Collection.

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