Rachel Lee Hovnanian is a conceptual artist working across sculpture, installation, painting and performance. Her work engages with universal issues of our time, namely the disconnection and isolation caused by digital addictions and our relentless pursuit of beauty and perfection. Hovnanian explores the inauthentic veneer of contemporary life, with her work consistently exposing the tension between the real and the unreal.
Hovnanian received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas at Austin and completed postgraduate studies at Parsons School of Design in New York. Hovnanian's work is held in numerous private collections and has been exhibited in galleries and institutions internationally across the United States, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Select venues include the 59th Biennale di Venezia (Venice), Chiesa e Chiostro Di Sant'Agostino (Pietrasanta) and the Ann Norton Museum and Sculpture Gardens (West Palm Beach), among others. Born in Parkersburg, West Virginia and raised in Houston, Texas, Hovnanian lives between Miami, New York and Italy.
