Meri Manukyan (b. 1976, in Yerevan, Armenia) is painter based on Los Angeles, California, USA. Finding connection and is a primary focus in her art — connecting people to each other, connecting the past to the present, and connecting people to cities and landscapes. In her paintings, many ordinary and invisible things are reconsidered as beautiful and joyful, and where the collective experiences are given special priority and importance.

Manukyan often paints places of collective experience of Angelenos, like the parks, hiking trails, and beaches, all connected by infrastructure and nature - residential streets, freeways, power lines,  palm trees and the LA River. She also seeks out intersection of personal and universal. This could be an ancient Armenian pattern reinterpreted and revitalized in a new pattern, or it could be an series of drawings of objects from childhood memories which recur in her current life. Figures and portraits central to Manukyan’s art practice as well and she regularly returns to human figure as the most expressive subjects to communicate emotion and mood, and relationships.