National Gallery of Armenia

 Born on April 15, 1983

 

Education

1999-2004   State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia

2004-2009   Post-graduate study at the State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia

 

Work experience

2004-2010   Senior researcher and storage keeper at the National Gallery of Armenia

Since 2006   Member of the Union of Artists of Armenia

2009-2013   Lecturer at Art Education faculty of Armenian State Pedagogical University

Since 2016   Lecturer at Art history and Theory and Computer Graphics departments, State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia

2010-2020   Head of the Graphic Art department of the National Gallery of Armenia

2018-2020   Scientific secretary at the National Gallery of Armenia

Since 2020  Director of the National Gallery of Armenia

 

Exhibitions and Projects

2006   Curator of exhibition “Grigor Aghasyan. Retrospective” (National Gallery of Armenia)

2011   Curator of exhibition “Grigor Aghasyan. Dedicated to the 85^th Birth Anniversary” (Albert & Tove Boyajian Gallery)

2014   Curator of “Book Art” exhibition (National Gallery of Armenia)

2014   Curator of exhibition “Old and New Yerevan” within the framework of Erebouni-Yerevan events

2015   Curator of exhibition “Grigor Aghasyan. We Shall Live” within the framework of events dedicated to the centenary of the Genocide

2016   Curator of exhibition “Yeghishe Tadevossian-Retrospective: From the collections of the National Gallery of Armenia and Vahagn Grigoryan (National Gallery of Armenia)

2016   Curator of exhibition “Bridge of Friendship. Boris Klementiev” (National Gallery of Armenia)

2016   Curator of exhibition “Miro Persoglia. Beyond the Reflection” (National Gallery of Armenia)

2017   Curator of exhibition “Armenian Impressionism. From Moscow to Paris” (Museum of Russian Impressionism, Moscow)

2017   Curator of exhibition “Ara Harutiunyan. The Sun in the Stones” within the framework of events “Cultural days of Armenia in Russia” (The State Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Moscow)

2017   Coordinator of international conference “Borders of Marine Art” dedicated to the 200^th birth anniversary of Hovhannes (Ivan) Aivazovsky

2018   Curator of project “International Contemporary Art Exhibition. Armenia-2018” (jointly with the Italian curator Mazdak Faiznia)

2019   Coordinator of exhibition “Wang Guangyi. Popular Study on Anthropology”

2020   Coordinator of the festival dedicated to the 150^th birth anniversary of Yeghishe Tadevossian.

 

Scientific articles

Studies of Yeghishe Tadevossian// The First scientific session of Armenian young art historians; Session materials, Yerevan, 2005

Yeghishe Tadevossian, Album, Yerevan, 2006

About Vasily Polenov from Yeghishe Tadevossian’s memories: Relations of the Pupil and the Teacher// The Second session of Armenian young art historians, Session materials, Yerevan, 2007

Edgar Degas/Edgar Degas, Letters, Yerevan, 2009

Armenian Impressionism. The art of “the refused” and “fundamentals of the national school”// Armenian Impressionism. From Moscow to Paris. Exhibition Catalogue, Moscow, 2018

Waterscapes of Yeghishe Tadevossian/ Borders of Marine Art/ International conference/ Collected reports, Yerevan, 2017

M. Faiznia, M. Hakobyan. Soundlines of Contemporary Art. Imola (Italy), 2019

M. Faiznia, M. Hakobyan. Open Sounds of Contemporary Art. Imola (Italy), 2019

Painting Collection of the Patriarchate// Armenian Patriarchate, Yerevan, 2019

 

    Samvel Hovhannisyan

     Deputy Director of the Research Department

      (+374 10) 580816

     hovhas10@mail.ru