Chirikjian, born in Tokyo, Japan, is a Mixed media/Fiber artist, currently residing in USA. Her work has been shown nationally and internationally including The Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington, (Arlington VA), McLean Project for the Arts, (McLean, VA), Trestle Gallery, (Brooklyn, NY), School 33 Art Center, (Baltimore, MD), Maryland Federation of Arts, (Annapolis, MD) and Kunststichting Perspektief, (Haacht, Belgium). Her work has been featured on The Washington Post, Textile Artist org. (UK), Field Project Gallery Online (NYC), and The Baltimore Sun. She was a 2018 Maryland State Art Council, Individual Artist Grants recipient. She earned her MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art in Michigan.