Varujan Boghosian

Boghosian is best known for his unique sculptures made of a variety of incongruous objects and old relics such as weathered barn doors, antique dolls' heads, marbles, and ping-pong balls. He was born in New Britain, Connecticut to Armenian immigrants, where his father worked at the Stanley Tool Works. After serving in the United States Navy during World War II, he entered the Vesper George School of Art in Boston. In 1953, he received a Fulbright grant to paint in Italy, and from 1956 to 1959, he worked with Josef Albers (1888-1976), a geometric abstractionist, at Yale University. Boghosian's many works relate to medieval themes of knights and death as well as Greek mythology, themes which he further explored through the writing of his own poetry. Over his career he has received many awards and accolades and has held many teaching positions, including one at Dartmouth College, from which he retired in 2007.