Arpine was born and educated in Yerevan, Armenia, where she graduated from the Fine Art Academy and developed her artistic practice. Since 2015, she has been based in the United Kingdom.

Over the past three decades, she has participated in more than 50 exhibitions, art festivals, and biennials across Armenia and internationally, including Austria, Germany, France, Italy, Greece, Bulgaria, Iran, Russia, and Georgia. Her work was included in the Armenian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2001. In 2010, and she was selected by the international jury of Kulturkontakt Austria for an artist residency in Vienna, and in 2013 she was invited for a residency in Graz, Austria.

In the last five years, Arpine has exhibited in five shows in the UK. Her work was selected for The Ironstone Art Prize by a jury including Philip Mould OBE, Deborah Smith (Director of the Arts Council Collection), Paul Hobson (Director of Modern Art Oxford), and Finlay Taylor (Senior Tutor at the Royal College of Art). Additionally, her work Red Kite received a judges’ commendation in another UK exhibition.

Arpine’s practice explores the human experience as it moves between the natural and virtual realms, examining the reciprocal relationship between individuals, society, and their environments. In a time shaped by constant information flow, surveillance, and digital mediation, she engages with questions of identity and authenticity in contemporary life.

Working across installation, photography, video, sculpture, sound, object art, and painting, Arpine allows the concept of each project to determine its medium, fostering an open and dynamic dialogue with the viewer.

In recent years, through both two- and three-dimensional works, she has focused on conveying delicacy, transparency, and ambiguity as reflections of the instability of our time. Layered watercolour creates subtle translucency in my paintings, while my sculptures, constructed from lightweight and fragile materials, emphasise the tension between fragility and resilience.