Born in 1939 in the city of Tiflis.  Kharazyan moved to Yerevan in 1958.  He graduated from the University of Theater and Arts in 1966.  Since 1962, he has designed numerous sets for the theater and television. 

    Kharazyan’s paintings are displayed in Armenian National Museum of Art (Yerevan), Modern Art Museum of Armenia (Yerevan), Gallerie de France (France), Christie's (London), private collections throughout Armenia, Russia, France, Lebanon, Spain, USA.
 

    Eduard Kharazyan is a striking representative of Armenian painting of 1960's, whose art has been far-famed not only in Armenia, but in Europe and USA as well. The specific combination of the principles of the national and contemporary art, the exceptional originality, the broad scope of the time and space make Kharazyan's art a unique cultural phenomenon. Reality and fable, man and object are encoded, becoming an abstract formula of interpretation. The artistic unexpectedness, the image-bearing miracle of an elusive instant most of all cause him a special agitation.
    His individuality is a dynamic and impetuous current of thoughts, actions, states, colors and forms, from which, as a volcanic eruption, the sudden wonders, slumber apparitions, scenic productions of human soul are born.
    Owing to the allegory, grotesque, associative thinking, the artist creates polysemantic artistic images, which penetrate into infinite horizons of love and melancholy. The Armenian fairy-tale becomes a starting point for the master for his "Nazarestan" series, which in the spirit of Bosch, expresses the absurdness of the human existence, the clumsy full of the acute grotesque.
    Later on his well-known series - "The Strolling Players", "Clowns", "Performance", "Actors" - bring fame to the master, on account of their striking artistic relativity and free interpretation of the characters and forms.
    The cycles of Kharazyan's portraits, still lives and landscapes by their formal and compositional character lie in the same limits: they are expressive and dynamic, with broad scope of the time and space.
    1980's on, Kharazyan has been combining the compositional and decorative solutions with the philosophical polysemanticism and different ways of manifestation of codes and signs: real and abstract. 
    Such series, as "Eastern Rhythms", "States", "Instants", "Traces", "The Theatre of Shadows", and "Windows" are the great triumph of the master. The symbolic window becomes an expression of the world outlook, of the different dimensions, of the various states of soul. On the same plane the artist fixes the present and the past, never letting the future out of his sight.
    In the last ten years, into Kharazyan's figurative system penetrate certain elements and fragments of Armenian miniature painting, which in the general context of the composition are dissolved in different layers of the intricate environment, enriching the contents of the picture -abstract works, collages, installations. These are the traits, owing to which Eduard Kharazyan became one of the most contemporary and national phenomena of the Armenian modern art.

BOGHOS HAYTAYAN