Ana Bagayan is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles, California. Born in Yerevan, Armenia in 1983, Bagayan and her family immigrated to the United States when she was just six years old. As a child, Bagayan was fascinated with science fiction and fantasy, and spent much of her time drawing and painting strange, otherworldly creatures and landscapes. After studying art at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, Bagayan began to exhibit her work in galleries across the United States and Europe. Her art combines elements of science fiction, mythology, and the supernatural to create dreamlike, surreal landscapes inhabited by bizarre and sometimes unsettling creatures. Bagayan's paintings often feature a muted color palette of blues, grays, and browns, which gives her work a melancholic, introspective quality. Many of her pieces also incorporate patterns and geometric shapes, creating a sense of order and structure within the fantastical worlds she creates. In addition to her paintings, Bagayan has also created sculptures and installations that further explore her fascination with the strange and otherworldly. For example, her 2018 exhibition "Mystery School" featured a series of sculptures that resembled eerie, ghostly apparitions, while her 2021 exhibition "Beyond the Flesh" explored themes of transhumanism and the blurring of boundaries between human and machine. Overall, Ana Bagayan's work is characterized by its combination of the fantastical and the introspective. By exploring otherworldly landscapes and creatures, she invites viewers to delve into their own subconscious and confront their deepest fears and desires.