Shushanik Karapetyan

Shushanik Karapetyan is a New York-based artist born in Yerevan, Armenia. Her work has been exhibited at venues such as the National Association of Women Artists, Governors Island, BRIC, LIC Arts Open, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Atamian Hovsepian Curatorial Practice, Brooklyn Waterfront Artist Coalition, Vital Arts Studios Gallery, and FlatFile Gallery.

Drawing from her practice as a Gestalt psychotherapist, Shushanik Karapetyan approaches painting with an emphasis on attunement and responsiveness to personal experience and environmental influences. Her process is fluid yet intentional—each piece begins with a structure, whether a landscape or the human form, and evolves organically through spontaneous choices in brushwork, color, texture, and movement. Repetition plays a significant role in her work, whether through pointillist strokes or sweeping marks.


Shushanik finds inspiration in the shifting hues of sunsets and the vivid tones of flowers encountered on her walks. These impressions weave into her paintings, mirroring her exploration of contrast and balance. A recurring Gestalt theme in her work is the concept of the "contact-boundary"—the space where individuals connect with and separate from others and themselves. Shushanik ...

Bridgeview School of Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2019

Brooklyn College, CUNY, New York, NY
M.A. in Mental Health Counseling: Spring, 2016

Hunter College, CUNY, New York, NY
B.A. in Psychology, Studio Art: Spring 2013

Solo Exhibitions

Land Sea Sky, Yant Art Space, New York, 2025
Paintings on the Sunnyside, Vital Arts Studios Gallery, New York, 2024


Group Exhibitions

Future Capsule, Saint Marks Arts, New York, 2025
The Red Show, Saint Marks Arts, New York, 2024
Salon de Refuses, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, New York, 2024
Ancestral Voices, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, New York, 2024
Portals 2024, Maryland Federation of Art, New York, 2024
Works on Paper, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, New York, 2024
Enchanted Queensdom, LIC arts Open, New York, 2024
Realism vs. The Abstract, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, New York, 2024
Metempsychosis: Rebirth and Resilience, Atamian Hovsepian Curatorial Practice, New York, 2024
Inner Sense, Art Fluent, Online Exhibition, 2023
Color, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition, New York, 2023
Series, Site:Brooklyn Gallery. Online Exhibition, 2022
Bringing Colour to the World, Art Mums United, Online Exhibition, 2022
Stronger Together, Art Mums United, Online Exhibition, 2022
Burn This, LIC Arts Open, New York, 2019
Summer Exhibition, LIC Arts Open, New York, 2019
Inside/Outside, LIC Arts Open, New York, 2019
Fall Salon, LIC Arts Open, New York, 2018
Falling Forward, LIC Arts Open...