Tigran Sahakyan, Armenian Artist

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Personal Data

Born on October 4, 1975.Yerevan

Education1988-1992 – State Art School of southwest district of Yerevan

1992-1994 – Yerevan State College of Fine Arts after P.Terlemezyan (department of ceramics)

1994-2000 – Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts (department of graphics)

Work experience1995-1997 – Lecturer of Fine Arts at the Mkhitar Sebastaci Educational Complex.

2003-2004 – Lecturer of drawing and painting (“A.Khalatyan college”)

From 2004 – Lecturer of drawing and painting (department of design), Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts.

Membership 1997-2004 – member of Union of Realist Artists

2002 Member of Artist’s Union of Armenia

Exhibition1995– Spring exhibition of young artists (House-Museum of H.Tumanyan)

1996– Spring exhibition of young artists (Artist’s Union of Armenia)

1997– Autumn exhibition of young artists (Artist’s Union of Armenia)

1997– First exhibition of Union of Realist Artists (National Gallery of Armenia)

1998– Second exhibition of Union of Realist Artists (National Gallery of Armenia)

1998 – Exhibition dedicated to the victims of earthquake in Spitak (Artist’s Union of Armenia)

2000 –“Painting, Graphic & Sculpture” Exhibition (Artist’s Union of Armenia)

2000- Movable Exhibition of Armenian Art, Brussels, Antwerp, Luxembourg.

2002 – “Exhibition of four“, art cafe Artbridge

2003 – “Hidden Gallery” exhibition (Artist’s Union of Armenia)

2003 – Exhibition of young contemporary art (Artist’s Union of Armenia)

2003 – Exhibition “Armenian Graphics 2003” – Dante in Armenia (Artist’s Union of Armenia)

2004 – “Graphics & Sculpture 2004” Exhibition (Artist’s Union of Armenia)

2004 – 6th International Festival of Contemporary Art, “Dialog in Dream” exhibition (NPAK – Center of Contemporary Experimental Art)

2005 – Exhibition dedicated to the memory of the 90th anniversary of the Genocide of the Armenians, (Artist’s Union of Armenia))

2006 – 7th Triennale Mondiale D’Estampes Petit Format, Chamalieres, France (catalogue)

2006 – “Infinity” Belorussian and Armenian Graphic Art Exhibition in the Contemporary Art Museum, Minsk, Belorussia

Solo Exhibitions
Awards

2007-   "ESTAMP 2007", Armenian and Belorussian Graphic Art Exhibition, National Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan
2008- "Retrospective Excavations" group exhibition (catalogue), Modern Art Museum of Yerevan, Armenia
2009-    L’Arte e il torchio 2009(Art and the Printing Press) (catalogue)
2009-    "Transitional Hypothesis" Armenian-Japanese exhibition (NPAK- Center for Contemporary Experimental Art)
2009-    "ALANIKA 2009” The Third International Symposium.
2011-    "Old Yerevan” exhibition (Bureaucrat Bookstore)
2012-    Armenia and Japanese Contemporary Art exhibition (Yokohama Creative City Center, Yokohama, Japan)
2012-    5th International Art Biennale China 2012 (catalogue), Beijing, China
2013-    "Abstract Art Group Exhibition" Dar al Funoon Gallery, Kuwait
2012-   "CREATIVE-ACTION" (Cultures in Dialogue Foundation and Modern Art Museum of Yerevan Municipality)
1998-   Diploma (Exhibition dedicated to the victims of earthquake in Spitak, Artist’s Union of Armenia)

Bibliography and Press

01. 2008 - “Nartsis” literary-artistic cultural journal
“Young Armenian artists of “Estampe 2007””
By Anatoli Hovhannisyan
24.10.2008 -“Yeter” weekly newspaper- Cultural life
Estampe – old and new word
By Anush Nersisyan
12.12.2007 - “Yerevan” magazine
ESTAMPE 07
Armenia, Exposition
5.18.2008 -“Afisha” Expositions in “Afisha”
“Estampe 2007”
By Kara Amirkhanyan
22.11.2007 - “Efir” weekly newspaper
Promising aquaintance
By Henrikh Ayvazyan
27.10.2007 - “GOLOS ARMENII” socio-political newspaper
BENEATH THE STARS
TEMPTATION TOWARDS THE GRAVURE
By Zara Ter-Hakobyan