Ararat Aleksanyan

Ararat is an artist based in Armenia, from the small town of Vanadzor. His experimental, abstract, expressionist style symbolizes his feelings and thoughts that deserve to be communicated with his audience.
Surrounded by mountains and shades of green he creates art in his studio tucked away between trees and a moment between the past and future. As a Vanadzor native, he knows that no matter where he goes in the future, he will always gravitate back to Vanadzor, because this is the origin of all that he is. Life in Vanadzor fuels his paintings with colors and soul. His colors evoke a story that are contained by the abstract shapes. Ararat’s journey as a painter began at just 3 months old when a bearded stranger predicted that he would grow to become either a painter or a musician. At 3 years old, he was drawing with pencils on paper, and upon losing them, he would say that he needed to find his documents. Those documents have now manifested into his paintings.


He gives color to the canvas and then pauses for the music to soften his soul. He does not know the meaning of life but he needs no reason to pick up the brush and paint. A cat is his most trusted audience that comes at its own leisure to update itself on Ararat’s new wor...

2003-2007 - at the art school after Stepan Agadzhanyan

2008-2012 Faculty of Arts of the Vanadzor Pedagogical University

Personal exhibitions
2022 ’’ No goodbye’s for now’’ Museum. Carlos Abovyan , Vanadzor
2016 "Conversation with a shadow" outdoor exhibition, Vanadzor
2016 "Uninvited Dreams" multifunctional self-development center LOFT (Yerevan)
Participation in group exhibitions
10 february 2026 Lablanc ,Madrid, Spain
5 december 2025 Osa art gallery Malaga,Spain
3 november 2025 Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in the Kingdom of Spain, Malaga
15 june 2025 mumeum Cromatica , Toledo Spain
20 october 2024 Istorik Gallery, Valencia Spain
2025 Artbox Zurich 7.0 Zurich, Switzerland
2024 Artbox Zurich 6.0 Zurich, Switzerland
2023 Artbox Zurich 5.0 Zurich, Switzerland
2023 Artbox New York 2.0 / NYC Artexpo Manhattan - New York, United States
2023 SWISSARTEXPO 2023 / SBB Eventhalle Zürich Hauptbahnhof - Zurich, Switzerland
2022 Miami 3.0 / Art Basel Week / Miami - Miami, United States
2022 Palma 1.0 by ArtBox Projects / Casa del Arte - Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2022 Urbanside gallery, Switzerland
2022 Tana art space, Italy
2021` SWISS ART EXPO exhibition SBB Event hall, Switzerland
2019` ‘’Graphic arts museum’’ , Gyumri
2017 Museum named after. Carlos Abovian, Vanadzor
2016 Museum....