Raffi Kalenderian lives and works in Los Angeles. He received a BFA from UCLA in 2004 and completed a residency with Me.di.um on Saint Barthélemy, in the French West Indies, in 2007. His work has appeared in exhibitions at Miles McEnery Gallery, in New York City; Vielmetter Los Angeles; the Santa Barbara Museum of Art; and the Nassima Landau Art Foundation, in Tel Aviv.