Aimée Papazian grew up in New York and formerly lived in Fayetteville, Arkansas. She holds a B.A. degree in Art/Semiotics from Brown University (Rhode Island) and an M.F.A. degree in Film and Video from Bard College (New York). After working in film and as a media producer, she changed her medium to clay. She received an Artists 360 grant from the Walton Family Foundation and Mid-America Arts Alliance in 2018. She has been awarded residencies at the Guldagergaard Ceramic Center in Skaelskor, Denmark and at the Zentrum für Keramik (Berlin, Germany). Her work has been exhibited in juried shows. The theme of time is everpresent in both her subject matter and choice of medium.