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Paul Sarkisian (born 1928, Chicago, Illinois) is an American artist who made significant contributions during the emergence of contemporary art in Los Angeles, and then later gained widespread recognition as a leading photorealist painter. In the early 1950’s Sarkisian began working with legendary independent curator Walter Hopps, exhibiting at The Syndell Studio in Los Angeles. Hopps later included Sarkisian, along with artists Richard Diebenkorn, Craig Kauffman and others, in the seminal Los Angeles art exhibition; Action1, otherwise known as The Merry-Go-Round-Show. The exhibition was organized in 1955 near the Santa Monica Pier as a radical proclamation of contemporary sensibilities, and is widely regarded today as being a defining moment in the history of contemporary art on the West Coast. Afterward, Sarkisian’s involvement with Walter Hopps continued with exhibitions at the Ferus Gallery. As a member of the Ferus, Sarkisian exhibited with gallery co-founder Ed Kienholz and artists Billy Al Bengston, George Herms, Wallace Berman, John Altoon and others, in shows like the Gallery Artists Group Show in1957. In 1962, Sarkisian joined forces with Richard Pettibone, George Herms and others to form the Aura Gallery in Pasadena, a cooperative space run by the artists themselves.