Atamian’s work can be read in leading publications including The New York Times Book Review, The Huffington Post, The Brooklyn Rail, the New Criterion and Hyperallergic. He is the former dance critic for The New York Press and Publisher of KGB Magazine. He has also contributed to The Harpy Hybrid Review, AUB’s Rusted Radishes, and the Beirut Daily Star. He also wrote regularly for AIM Magazine, The Armenian Reporter, and Ararat Magazine.

Atamian is the co-founder and curator of Atamian Hovsepian Curatorial Project, an international undertaking with gallery spaces in New York City and Yerevan. To date he has authored and translated seven books and translations from Western Armenian and French; and has written and directed films that have screened at the Venice Biennale and film festivals internationally.

An alumnus of Harvard University, USC Film School and Columbia Business School, Christopher studied on a Fulbright Scholarship at the ETH Zürich. He has been the recipient of two Tölölyan Literary Prizes, a 2015 Ellis Island Medal of Honor and been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award.