Julian Chehirian

Julian Chehirian is a multimedia artist and historian of science based in Philadelphia and Sofia. He works on the history of the mind sciences and how human attention became an object of management. He was a Visual Arts Resident at Pioneer Works in spring 2026. His Venice Biennale work in 2024 was presented in the Bulgarian Pavilion. He is also a Doan Fellow at the Science History Institute, where he is developing a book project on synthetic materials and attention in postwar America. He teaches at the Strother School of Radical Attention.