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.

Her work has been featured in QAMI JAN Magazine, a visual campaign for Nairian, at Pershing Art Space in Los Angeles, and in the ongoing group exhibitions This Sacred Feeling at Oakland Photo Workshop and Edge of Home at ARTogether, where she was also a co-curator.

As a member of the East Bay Photo Collective, Dea explores analog film as both process and practice, developing and printing 35mm film in the darkroom. She is also a co-founder of Mother Armenia, a SWANA/MENA cultural platform that produces community events, radio shows, exhibitions, and fundraisers, with $17,500 donated in humanitarian aid since its founding.

At the intersection of artistry and cultural work, Dea creates spaces that honor lineage while inviting diasporic storytelling and collective transformation.