Born in 1954 Yerevan, Armenia

 

Education:

 

1971 – 77 Panos Terlemezian art college, Yerevan

1978 – 1984 Yerevan State Institute of Fine Arts

 

Experience:

 

1983 – 1988 Art producer at Yerevan Youth Theater

                 Has also illustrated 25 children books

Exhibitions:

 

1990  -  “Contemporary Art from Armenia”, New Academy Gallery, London

             “Armenian Vanguard Artists”, group show, Kassel, Germany

             “Plus-Minus”, 3rd Floor Group, Yerevan

1992 -   “Graffiti”, 3rd Floor Group, Yerevan

              “Armenian Postmodernism”, group show, CHA, Moscow

1993  -  “EX”, 3rd Floor Group, Yerevan

                “Beyond Idiom”, group show, American University in Armenia, Yerevan

   1994 -  “Yerevan Landscape”, EX-VOTO gallery, Yerevan

 “Personal Icons”, group show, EX-VOTO gallery, Yerevan

                “Pacific”, 3rd Floor Group, Yerevan

   1995 - “Contemporary Art in Armenia – Moscow”, days of Armenian Culture in  Moscow

                “Armenia - Arts and Culture – Bochum”, days of Armenian Culture in Bochum,       

                 Germany

                “5 artists from Armenia” group show, Serguey Popov Gallery, Berlin, Germany 

   1996  -  “Position”, group show, Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan

                “Work in Progress”, group show, Center for Contemporary Experimental Art,

                 Yerevan

                “Museum Hermeticum”, EX-VOTO gallery, Yerevan, Armenia

   1997 -   Post Soviet Art Group Show, Borges Center, Buenos Aires

 “Post Factum”, group show, Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan

 “Capacity”, TAAK Modern Art Gallery, Yerevan

                “Dreams and Visions”, Contemporary art from Armenia, Westin Hotel, Chicago, USA

   1998  -  “Meaning and Symbol”, group show, curator of project , Center for Contemporary

                 Experimental Art, Yerevan

                 “Two Artists One Creation” – Arevik Arevshatyan + Ruben Grigoryan, Armenian Center for Contemporary                           Experimental Art,  Yerevan

  “Text”, group show, Ch, Khachatourian gallery 

                 1st  international Gyumri biennial

    1999  -     Personal exhibition in Sao-Paulo, Brazil, (Gallery Caribe)

                  “Three tendencies”, group show, HAY-ART cultural center., Yerevan           

                  “Closed City”, joint project of Armenian and Russian artists, HAY-ART

                  cultural center., Yerevan

                  “Great Atrophy”, group show, HAY-ART cultural center, Yerevan

                  “Crisis”, group show, Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan

    2000  -   2nd international Gyumri biennial, Gyumri

                 “Parallel Reality”, joint project of Armenian and Austrian artists, HAY-ART cultural center., Yerevan

    2001 -   “UTOPIANA”, international exhibition-symposium, HAY-ART

                  cultural center, Yerevan

                 “Beyond the Icon” retrospective of Armenian contemporary art, Armenian National  

                  Gallery, Yerevan

                  “Not Dedicated…”, group show, HAY-ART cultural center, Yerevan

    2002  -  “Cross Line”, group show-symposium, HAY-ART cultural center, Yerevan 

    2003  -  Vicki Hovanessian collection, “Academy” gallery, Yerevan

                  “Adieu Parajanov – contemporary art from Armenia”, Kunsthalle/Project Space Vienna

    2004  -  4-rd international Gyumri biennal,Gyumri