Zarhouie Abdalian

Zarhouie Abdalian (born 1982) is an American artist. Her work focuses on site-oriented sound installations and sculptures. She is a 2012 recipient of the SECA Art Award.

She had a 2013 show called “Matrix 249” at the Berkeley Art Museum, with sound sculptures related to aspects of the Civil Rights Movement. The sculptures were set up to use the out-of-the-way location of the gallery and aspects of the walls and space as part of the effect of the art.

In 2013 she also installed a sound sculpture in Frank H. Ogawa Plaza in Oakland, with bells that occasionally ring together out of sight.

Her exhibitions include:

• Prospect.3, New Orleans
• "Audible Spaces," David Winton Bell Gallery, Providence, RI
• Eighth Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
• "Nothing Beside Remains," Gertrude Contemporary, Melbourne, Australia
• CAFAM Biennale, Beijing, China
• "Shanghai Biennial: Reactivation," Shanghai, China
• "When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes," CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco
• Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia
• "Rendez-vous 12," South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa
• The Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey

Her solo exhibition "An Overture” was featured at Altman Siegel in San Francisco.