Four people, one flock

Zadik Zadikian

President

Zadik Zadikian is a sculptor. He was born in Yerevan, studied at the Panos Terlemezian art school, and left Soviet Armenia in the 1960s, reaching the United States by way of Beirut. In San Francisco he worked as an assistant to the sculptor Beniamino Bufano.

In New York from 1973 he was Richard Serra’s assistant; Serra titled the installation drawing Zadikians (1974, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum) after him. He opened both of Tony Shafrazi’s galleries, in Tehran in 1978 with Gold Bricks and in New York in 1979. His gilded rooms of the 1970s included the entrance of P.S.1.

Recent work includes Path to Nine (2024), shown in Solid Gold at the Brooklyn Museum; RETURN (2025) at the Cafesjian Center for the Arts, his first exhibition in Armenia; and Zadik Zadikian: The Studio, the national participation of the Republic of Armenia at the 61st Venice Biennale. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

Aram Zadikian

Executive Director · Chief Financial Officer

Aram Zadikian runs Fallen Angels day to day: its projects, its partners and its finances. He is also the director of Zadik Zadikian Studio and the artist’s son.

For the Armenian Pavilion in Venice he ran the studio in Tesa 41: production, a team of seven assistants from the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, deliveries into the Arsenale, and the pavilion’s press and website. He works beside his father on each piece, from the first drawing through the 3D model to the full-scale form, and made most of the renderings, photographs and films in the pavilion’s press library.

Requests for studio visits, interviews and partnerships go to him.

Khachatur Khudikyan

Director

Khachatur (Chris) Khudikyan is a Los Angeles entrepreneur in freight and logistics. With his son Jack he built AJR Trucking, a family company with roots in 1984 that carries mail for the United States Postal Service and runs much of its fleet on natural gas.

In 2024 AJR Trucking and its sister company MDB Transportation combined as AiLO, a logistics company based in Compton, California. He is its President.

He is a director of Fallen Angels Inc. The Khudikyan family supported RETURN in Yerevan and the Armenian Pavilion in Venice, where he served on the pavilion’s committee as logistics advisor.

Harout Ajaryan

Secretary

Harout Ajaryan is a Los Angeles entrepreneur. He is the founder and CEO of Vivotein, a California company formed in 2016 that raises black soldier flies on food waste to make sustainable protein for animal feed and natural soil amendments, keeping that waste out of landfills.

He is the secretary of Fallen Angels Inc.