Born in Richmond, Virginia, 1972

Ellina Kevorkian received her MFA from Claremont Graduate University in 2002. Prior to that she studied at the School of Visual Art's Painting Residency, 2001, in New York City and Studio Art Center International in Florence, Italy, 1990. Kevorkian has had solo exhibitions in Los Angeles with Mark Moore Gallery, 2003, and Western Project, 2005. Her last solo exhibition at Western Project, Love Poems for Infidels, was reviewed and named Critic’s Choice in the Los Angeles Times. She has been included in group exhibitions at Arts Manhattan, Angles Gallery, (LACE) Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Q.E.D. Gallery, Anna Helwing Gallery, Lounge Gallery in London, and Nuans Gallery in Dusseldorf.  In 2006, as a member of the Los Angeles artist collective, The LA Art Girls, she was a participant at the Getty Research Institute for their Works In Progress Lecture Series.  In 2007, Kevorkian was included in the Southern California Council of the National Museum of Women in the Arts sponsored retrospective Multiple Vantage Points: Southern California Women Artists, 1980-2006 at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Recently, she was included in Girly Show:  Pin-ups, Zines & the So-Called Third Wave, 2008, an exhibition at the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art at Chaffey College. Other recent participation includes group exhibitions Favorite This! at Meridian Gallery in San Francisco and Running Time 24:00:00 at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Currently, her video trilogy, The Elizabeth Taylor Project, is included in Western Project: The First Six Years exhibition at Western Project in Culver City.

She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.