Art historian Edda Vardanyan defended her doctoral thesis at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Sorbonne) in 2001. She is director of research at the Institute of Ancient Manuscripts of the Republic of Armenia (Matenadaran, Yerevan). Since 2002, she has been a research associate at the Centre d'histoire et civilisation de Byzance(UMR 8167, Orient et Méditerranée, CNRS/ University of Paris 1 & 4, EPHE, Paris).
She is the author of numerous publications on medieval Armenian art and architecture, including the collective volumes Hoṙomos Monastery: Art and History (Monographs 50), (Paris : ACHCByz, 2015) edited by herself and The Church of the Holy Cross of Ałt'amar. Politics, Art, Spirituality in the Kingdom of Vaspurakan (Leiden : Brill, 2019) edited with Z. Pogossian ; as well as the monograph Hakob's Gospels: The Life and Work of an Armenian Artist of the Sixteenth Century (London: 2016) with T. Greenwood.
She curated two exhibitions in France on Armenian art : Les Chemins de l'Arménie, in 2007, at the Musée arménien de France (Paris), on the occasion of the Year of Armenia in France ; and Reflets d'Arménie : manuscrits et art religieux, in 2012, at the Scriptorial d'Avranches - musée des manuscrits du Mont-Saint-Michel (Avranches).
