Armand Yervant Tufenkian is an artist, filmmaker and writer. Grounded in sustained encounters with landscapes, materials and embodied forms of knowledge, his moving-image practice examines how ways of seeing are shaped by labor, technology, inheritance and historical displacement. Recent projects have emerged from forest-fire observation, seed exchange, rug repair and the histories carried by color.
Tufenkian’s work has been presented at Jeu de Paume, Film at Lincoln Center, the Thailand Biennale, IDFA, the Viennale and Courtisane. In the Manner of Smoke received the International Award at Cinéma du Réel in 2025.
Selected Exhibitions, Screenings & Talks
In the Manner of Smoke, Prismatic Ground, New York | May 2026
In the Manner of Smoke, Hochschule für Bildende Künste Braunschweig | January 2026
In the Manner of Smoke, Great Hall of the Cinema House, Yerevan| December 2025
In the Manner of Smoke, IDFA, Amsterdam | November 2025
Accession, Courtisane, Ghent | April 2025
In the Manner of Smoke, Jeu de Paume, Paris | April 2025
In the Manner of Smoke, Cinéma du Réel, Paris | March 2025
Sfumato: Takes on the Poetics of Smoke, Critical Media Lab, McGill University | February 2025
in lightning Agnes, Thailand Biennale, Cinema for All Pavilion | February 2024
Conscious Landscapes, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje — December 2019
Temporary Fields, Lithium Gallery, Chicago | November 2018
Selected Writing & Conversations
Chris Cassingham. Speaking through Smoke: in conversation. Public Parking. 2025
Diana Prada Rojas. Lo difuso como forma cinematográfica. La Pesadilla de Nanook. 2025
Claire Mullen & Stephen Kuster. Open City Notes. 2025
Nicole Gabriel. Revue Jeune Cinéma (n°436). 2025
Amina Cain. Waiting for the Appearance of Something Unknown. Open City Texts. 2025
Louise Benson. The Ten Exhibitions to See in May. ArtReview. 2025
Pieter van Bogaert. Il faut filmer son jardin. Filmfestival Courtisane in Gent. De Witte Raaf. 2025
David Perrin. Art of the Real 2019. MUBI Notebook. 2019
Jacob Zicheng Zhang. An Archival Impulse, or Not: Accessioning. gallery no one. 2019