Nazareth Karoyan is art critic, freelance curator and founder and director of ICA. Ever since the 1980s, he has contributed actively to the formation of the contemporary art scene in Armenia.
He was affiliated with the group the Black Square, and was the co-founder of the 3rd floor movement. Karoyan also initiated several private art galleries in Armenia as well as the first Armenian contemporary art periodical, In Vitro. From 2005 to 2013 he was one of founders and first president of AICA-Armenia. Karoyan was the curator of around twenty exhibitions in Armenia and abroad. Last one was the National Pavilion of Armenia in Venice Biennale at 2011. He is among the initiators of the Summer Seminars for Art Curators and the two-year Program for Critical and Curatorial Studies in Yerevan. As an art critic Karoyan’s interests focus on the problems of institutionalization of contemporary art, cooperation with Europe and representation of socio-political contexts in contemporary art.