AVAN ART COMMUNITY: Gagik Avetisyan

Date of birth: February 20, 1957

Place of birth: Republic of Armenia

Education:
1975-1977 - Yerevan College of Fine Arts. As a specialist of Decorative applied art
1977-1981 - Armenian State Pedagogical University, Faculty of Art. As an teacher

and painter.

2003-2007 - St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture

and Architecture after Ilya Repin. Department of Art

History and Theory. As an Art Critic

Employment:

1980-1985 - College of Fine Arts and Technology N8, professor
1987-1988 - Yerevan Furniture Factory Consultant of Director

1993-2003 - Yerevan, “Maku” company. As Deputy Director,

Chief Designer
Since 1995 - Member of UNESCO Artists’ International Federation.

Since 2000 - Member of Creative Union of Artists of Russia and Artists’

International Federation.

2009-2011 - Armenian State Pedagogical University, Department of

Art History and Theory, as a professor
Since 2010 - Coordinator of International Festival «Armenian Palette»

Since 2012 - Member of Union Artists of Armenia

Since 2012 - Director in Abovyan Museum of Armenian and Russian

Peoples Friendship .

Exhibitions:

1985 - Leningrad, Youth Artists Exhibition

1985 - Yerevan, College of Fine Arts and Technology N8, Personality exhibition

1986 - Yerevan, Artists' Union, Soviet All-Union exhibition

1986 - Yerevan, Artists' Union, 1 work in exhibition

1987 - Exhibition dedicated to 70th Anniversary of Revolution

1987 - Yerevan, Artists' Union's youth exhibition

1988 - Yerevan, Artists' Union, Portrait exhibition “Armine's portrait”

was bought by ASSR Ministry of Culture

1991 - Portrait exhibition in UNESCO International Federation

1991 - Southern door of Sevan Saint Apostles' Church, Donation

1992 - Switzerland, Geneva, “Montmartre-Sur- Molard”, International Painting

Exhibition-Contest, 60 countries, Grand Prix

1993 - Switzerland, Geneva, personal exhibition

1994 – Sankt-Prtersburg, Academy of Fine Arts, exhibition

1995 - Sankt-Prtersburg, Open-air exhibition

1997 - France, Lyon, 1 work in exhibition

1999 - Sankt Petersburg, Russian Art Museum, 1 work in exhibition

2000 - Hungary, Budapest, Open-air personal exhibition

2001- Hungary, Budapest, exhibition

2003 - Hungary, Budapest, exhibition

2006 - Sankt-Prtersburg, 5-painters’ exhibition, Brodski museum

2006 - Leningrad, exhibition of 5 young artists

2011 - Yerevan, Eghegnadzor, “Vayots Dzor in autumn’’, “Armenian Pallete”

fine arts festival, coordinator-participant

2011 - Yerevan, “Spring Syunik colors’’, “Armenian Pallete” fine arts festival,

coordinator, participant

2011 - Gyumri, Yerevan, “Shirak summer colors”, “Armenian Pallete” fine arts

festival, coordinator, participant

2011 - August 6-26 The first international Plein air painting festival

(Armenia, Russia, Belarus), Artsakh, Vayots Dzor, Gyumri, Lori, Tavush,

Gegharkunik, Yerevan: Project author, coordinator-participant

2011 - Vanadzor, Yerevan, “Lorva Dzor. Colors of Debed plain”

“Armenian palette” festival, coordinator-participant

2011 - Yerevan, Panarmenian exhibition with Russian and Belarusian painters

2012 - Yerevan, “Aparan nature”, “Armenian palette” festival,

Coordinator, participant

2012 - Elblag-European Cultural center, Svyadovid, Poland, “Impresje” festival

2012 - Riga, Vilnyus, Tallin, “Armenian painters” exhibition

2012 - Yerevan, Exhibition dedicated to 90th anniversary of the Yerevan State

Pedagogical University

2013 - Harbin, EXPO-2013

2014 - Yerevan "Old-New Yerevan", Artists' Union

2015 - Yerevan "Revival" the organizer and participant of the exhibition,

dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide (65

participants from 8 countries)

2015 - Yerevan, the exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the

Armenian Genocide, Artists' Union

2015 - Yerevan Municipality, "Yerevan through

the eyes of foreign artists" (organizer, participant)

2015 - Lithuania, Vilnius Town Hall Square, the open-air event dedicated to

the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide. Author panel "History

of Armenia» (200x300).

G. Avetisyan's works are now in personal collections and in museums in Yerevan, NKR (Nagorno-Karabakh Republic), Saint Petersburg, Geneva, Lyon, Paris, Budapest, Los Angeles, Rome, Zurich, Harbin and so on.