List of Armenian artists
Encyclopedia
- Naomi Megerian – artist, designer
- Vague Vartanian – special effects, artist
- Meruzhan Khachatryan
– - Christina Vandian – artist, mixed media
- Karina Taminian – artist, painter
- Davit Mirzoyan
– artist - Yervand KocharYervand Kochar-BRIEF BIOGRAPHY:Yervand Kochar was born in Tbilisi on June 15, 1899. He was educated at Nersissyan school, in the Arts School of the Caucasus Association Promoting Fine Arts in Tbilisi, at Moscow Second State Tree Fine Arts Studios, at P. Konchalovsky's studio. In 1921 People's Commissariat of...
– sculptor, painter - Ivan AivazovskyIvan AivazovskyIvan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky July 29, 1817 – May 5, 1900) was a Russian world-renowned painter of Armenian descent living and working in Crimea, most famous for his seascapes, which constitute more than half of his paintings...
– painter - Nikol Aghababyan – painter
- Avetik Alaverdyan – painter
- Karine Atchemyan – sculptor
- Tigran AvakianTigran AvakianTigran Avakian Born and raised in Moscow, Russia, who currently resides in Los Angeles, California is an Armenian photographer.- External links :*...
, photographer - Mihran Avetisyan – painter
- Minas AvetisyanMinas Avetisyan- Biography :Minas Avetisyan was born in the village of Jajur, Armenia. His mother, Sofo, was a daughter of the priest from Kars. His father, Karapet, was a smith from Mush. His wife was Gayane Mamajanyan....
– painter - Levon Azatyan – painter
- Lilit Bachachyan – painter
- Nairy Baghramian – artist
- Artak Barseghyan – painter
- Gevorg Bashinjagyan – painter http://eng.armenianart.info/
- Arto Chakmakchian – sculptor
- Samvel Chibukhchyan – painter
- Vasgen Degirmentas – photographer
- John DolmayanJohn DolmayanJohn William Dolmayan is a Lebanese-born Armenian-American songwriter and drummer. He is best known as the drummer of System of a Down. Dolmayan is also the drummer for the band Scars on Broadway and Indicator....
– musician - Ronald Dzerigian – painter
- Larry GagosianLarry GagosianLawrence Gilbert "Larry" Gagosian is an American art dealer who owns the Gagosian Gallery chain of art galleries, with three locations in New York City Lawrence Gilbert "Larry" Gagosian (born April 19, 1945) is an American art dealer who owns the Gagosian Gallery chain of art galleries, with three...
– art collector - Gastello Gasparyan – painter
- Seyran Gasparyan – painter
- Arshile GorkyArshile GorkyArshile Gorky was an Armenian-born American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. As such, his works were often speculated to have been informed by the suffering and loss he experienced of the Armenian genocide.-Early life:...
– painter - Paul GuiragossianPaul GuiragossianPaul Guiragossian was an Armenian painter.-Career:Paul Guiragossian, the famous Armenian painter was born in Jerusalem in 1926 and settled in Beirut with his family in 1939 becoming a Lebanese citizen. He started to paint in 1942 at the Yarkon Studio. In 1957, he received a scholarship to study at...
painter - Ara GülerAra GülerAra Güler is a Turkish photojournalist of Armenian descent, nicknamed "the Eye of Istanbul" or "the Photographer of Istanbul".- Early life :...
– photographer - Harout Hakobyan – painter
- Osheen Harruthoonyan photographer
- Mariam HakobyanMariam HakobyanMariam Hakobyan is an Armenian sculptor based in Yerevan, Armenia.-Education and career:Hakobyan graduated from the Yerevan State Institute of Fine Arts in 1974, and completed her undergraduate work at the Panos Terlemezian Fine Arts College in 1968...
– sculptor - Harout Harutiunyan – painter
- Malak KarshMalak KarshMalak Karsh, was a Canadian photographer of Armenian heritage, brother of Yousuf Karsh, who is best known for his photographs of the Ottawa region....
– landscape photographer - Yousuf KarshYousuf KarshYousuf Karsh, CC was a Canadian photographer of Armenian heritage, and one of the most famous and accomplished portrait photographers of all time.-Biography:...
– Canada; Egyptian-born portrait photographer. - Michael Keropian – sculptor
- Aram Khachatryan – composer
- Garegin KhachatryanGaregin KhachatryanGaregin Khachatryan was an Armenian sculptor, artist, and freedom fighter.-Biography:Garegin Khachatryan was born in Yerevan, 17 September 1975....
– ceramic-sculptor, painter - Rafik KhachatryanRafik KhachatryanRafik Khachatryan was an Armenian sculptor.File:Banakum carayelis.jpg|thumb|right|...
– sculptor - Sergey KhachatryanSergey KhachatryanSergey Khachatryan is an Armenian violinist. He was born in Yerevan in 1985.He made his New York City debut on August 4, 2006, playing the Beethoven Violin Concerto in Avery Fisher Hall under the baton of Osmo Vänskä.-Prizes:...
– classical violinist - Ontronik "Andy" Khachaturian – musician, songwriter
- Komitas VardapetKomitas VardapetIn 1950s his manuscripts were also transferred from Paris to Yerevan.Badarak was first printed in 1933 in Paris and first recorded onto a digital media in 1988 in Yerevan. In collecting and publishing so many folk songs, he saved the cultural heritage of Western Armenia that otherwise would have...
– composer, music ethologist - Armen Khojoyan – painter
- Vartan Malakian – painter
- Daron MalakianDaron MalakianDaron Vartan Malakian is an Armenian-American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. He is best known as the guitarist, songwriter, and occasional vocalist of the heavy metal band System of a Down and as the lead vocalist, lead guitarist, and songwriter of the alternative...
– American-born musician and son of Vartan Malakian - Arman ManookianArman ManookianArman Tateos Manookian was an Armenian-American painter. He was the oldest of three children born to a Christian Armenian family in Constantinople. As a teenager, he survived the Armenian Genocide. Manookian immigrated to the United States in 1920, at the age of 16, and studied illustration at...
- First Marine Corps artist to illustrate Marine Corps history - considered Hawai'i's hero and Van Gough- committed suicide perhaps from PTSD from Armenian Genocide - works considered Hawai'i's state treasures. - Martiros ManoukianMartiros ManoukianMartiros Manoukian is an Armenian artist.Manoukian started painting seriously at the age of 11. He entered the Academy of Art in Yerevan in 1967. And also studied in Moscow and Leningrad. He was admitted to the USSR Union of Artists aged only 26. His first exhibition was in 1972 in Yerevan...
- painter - Tigran Matoulyan – painter
- Mkrtich Mazmanian – sculptor
- Alain MikliAlain MikliAlain Mikli is a French designer of high-end handmade eyeglasses and accessories. Mikli's line features unique colors and shapes, and are a favorite among European celebrities and avant-garde Americans. Mikli claims his use of color is inspired by his Armenian-Lebanese heritage.In 1978, Mikli...
– designer - Pharavon Mirzoyan – painter
- Mais Mkhitaryan – painter
- Shavarsh OdadjianShavo OdadjianShavarsh "Shavo" Odadjian is an Armenian American songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, music video director/editor, music producer, and artist/painter. He is best known as the bassist, backing vocalist and occasional songwriter of the Grammy Award-winning rock band System of a Down...
– musician and painter - Artour Oshakantsi has become the greatest Armenian painter in the Soviet Union. He is the founder of Abstract Naturalism and is perhaps the most well-known painter of Independent Armenia. In Soviet Armenia, where abstractionism symbolised the voice of social protest, Oshakantsi is one of the first artists to use abstraction to express his political rage.
'The Metropolitan Museum of Art'
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- Artavazd Peleshyan – filmmaker
- Denis PetersonDenis PetersonDenis Peterson is an American hyperrealist painter. He is a hyperrealist painter whose photorealist works have been exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Butler Institute of American Art, Tate Modern, Springville Museum of Art, Corcoran MPA and Max Hutchinson Gallery...
– painter - Martin Petrosian – painter
- Hovsep PushmanHovsep PushmanHovsep Pushman was an American artist of Armenian background. He was known for his contemplative still lifes and sensitive portraits of women, often in exotic dress...
– painter - Toros RoslinToros RoslinToros Roslin ; circa 1210–1270) was the most prominent Armenian manuscript illuminator in the High Middle Ages. Roslin introduced a wider range of narrative in his iconography based on his knowledge of western European art while continuing the conventions established by his predecessors...
– medieval painter - SarkisSarkisSarkis Zabunyan, known as Sarkis, is a Turkish-born Armenian conceptual artist living in France....
– sculptor - Arthur Sarkissian – painter
- Hayk Sargsyan – painter
- Martiros SaryanMartiros SaryanMartiros Saryan was an Armenian painter.He was born into an Armenian family in Nor Nakhijevan . In 1895, aged 15, he completed the Nakhichevan school and from 1897 to 1904 studied at the Moscow School of Arts, including in the workshops of Valentin Serov and Konstantin Korovin...
– painter http://www.saryan.info/ - Serj TankianSerj TankianSerj Tankian is a Lebanese-born Armenian-American singer–songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, playwright, record producer, poet, and political activist...
– musician - Avet Terteryan – classical composer
- Arto TunçboyacıyanArto TunçboyaciyanArto Tunçboyacıyan is an Armenian-Turkish musician. A famous avant-garde folk artist , he appeared on more than 200 records in Europe before arriving in the United States, where he went to work with numerous jazz legends including Chet Baker, Al Di Meola, and Joe Zawinul as well as a semi-regular...
– Turkish-Armenian avant-garde folk musician - Teni Vardanyan – painter
- Areg Vardanyan – sculptor
- Jean Kazandjian – painter http://www.jeankazandjian.com/
- Vartan VahramianVartan VahramianVartan Vahramian forms part of the Iranian-Armenian music and painting history, because in both these fields, he has displayed mastership, taste and skill, a phenomenon that one does not see often...
– musician, painter