Biography:

Varujan Boghosian was born in New Britain, Connecticut in 1926. He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II and received a Fulbright Grant to study painting in Italy in 1953. Upon his return, he studied with Joseph Albers at the Yale School of Art and Architecture where he received a BFA and MFA.

Varujan Boghosian has held teaching positions at the University of Florida, Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, Yale University, Brown University and , since 1968, has taught studio art at Dartmouth College from which he recently retired. He has twice been Sculptor in Residence at the American Academy in Rome (1966-67 and 1975) and is the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (1985). He is a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the National Academy of Design.

Varujan Boghosian’s work has been shown at Cordier and Eckstrom, Stable Gallery, The Irving Gallery, Berta Walker Gallery, Joan Washburn Gallery (the current representative of his work), Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College and the DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA.

Varujan Boghosian: Selected Public Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH
Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
University Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The New York Public Library, New York, NY
The Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
The Cincinnati Museum of Art
Detroit Museum of Arte.