Dea Hovhannisyan (b. Deanna Oganesian) is a Bay Area-based visual artist and photographer whose work explores memory, land, and being through analog film and multimedia collage.

Her photographs reflect a relationship to earth, ancestral legacy, and connection, each frame a study in the poetry of presence. Living in Armenia and working with displaced communities shaped a practice rooted in intimacy, resilience, and lineage. More recently, she has turned to collage, composing layered portals of threshold and place from textures and found materials.

As a member of the East Bay Photo Collective, Dea explores analog film as both process and practice, developing and printing black-and-white film in the darkroom. She is also a co-curator and exhibiting artist of Edge of Home at ARTogether (June 6-27) and co-founder of the cultural platform Mother Armenia.

Beyond her art practice, Dea works across creative direction, event production, and cultural branding. Her recent projects include community-centered event series, editorial storytelling, and visual campaigns that elevate acts of remembering, resisting, and reimagining.