Arshak Sarkissian

Arshak Sarkissian’s art is all about contemporary man, the complexities and controversies that surround him as well as his metaphysical peculiarities as refracted through the artist’s imagination. Convinced that the world is a pluralistic place that is not just limited to physical reality and in which many worlds – directly inspired by the arts and literature – are just as factual, his world is informed by the Magic Realism of South America as well as Asiatic Shamanistic traditions. Sarkissian illustrates the supernatural aspects of every day life in his art. For him as an artist, the comprehension of multidimensional realities is fundamental in recognizing man’s own reality, and he is fascinated in exploring the extremes of human behaviour and nature. His work penetrates into the human psyche which he calls ‘its personality’.
Sarkissian is an artist as well as an anthropologist of various states of mind who leaves room to multiple physiognomic perplexing interpretations. He is constantly exploring the human personality with its multi-dimensional, multi-layered facets. His drawings are peopled with self-conscious entities that seem to be in psychological experiments with themselves in a process of self-discovery and evolution. It i...

Born 1981 in Gyumri, Armenia
Lives and works in Yerevan, Armenia

Education
1993-98 National Aesthetic Center of Art, Yerevan, Armenia
2001-02 Postgraduate Cyprus College of Art, Paphos, Cyprus

2025 Birdsongs of the Soul, Antikyan Gallery, Henrik Igityan National Center for Arts, Yerevan, Armenia
2023 Carnavalesque, Palazzo Pisani Revedin, Antikyan Gallery Venice, Italy
2022 Angels and Demons, Centro Saint-Benin Museum ,( Traveling Exhibition) Aosta, Italy
2020 Angels and Demons, Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia, ( Traveling Exhibition) curated by Dominque Lora, Rome, Italy
2018 Visual Poet, Tufenkian Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angles, USA
2017 Portrays of Imaginary Souls, Antikyan Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
2016 Contemporary Man, AC Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2016 Antikian Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
2015 Arshak Sarkissian recent paintings, Studio Vendome Gallery, New York, USA
2015 Tera-Genesise, Pharos Contemporary Art Museum, Nicosia, Cyprus
2014 Arshak Sarkissian, Opus 39 Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
2013 The Citizens ,Antikyan Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
2010 Burning Man, Mildberry Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2010 Radio Gaga, Gavriel Gallery, Bremen, Germany
2011 Opus 39 Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
2009 The Look, Albemarle Galle...