Vugar Guliyev

I am an award-winning artist based in Northern Virginia. I started painting at a very early age because I was very curious and tried to get deep about how everything depends on each other, depending on time, entailment, or location. My art is about people and how they deal with their everyday and global fears.
I am trying to understand human destinies and perceptions of each other, and how they will resist coming.
How we evolved from naive, pure children to who we are today. How our attitude towards other people affects our essence, changing them. For as long as I can remember, I have loved to explore people and it helps me understand myself better. I like to distinguish human auras and show them in the picture in bright colors. Some people have a very strong spiritual energy and it manifests itself in relationships with nature. I use nature in my work as a biography of these characters.
We were born in nature and we will return to it. Sometimes people seem too insignificant in the background, but sometimes nature itself brings it to the fore.
Drawing each canvas, I live this moment in the life of those heroes who play the main role and visit those places again and again.

Graduate 1999-2003 Advanced Studies Diploma, Azerbaijan Fine Art School and 2003-2007 Bachelor of Arts Azerbaijan Academy of Fine Arts.

“ALTERED STATES” Alliance Gallery – October 2024 --- “ABSURD NIGHT WALK” --- First Place, juried by Rosemary Covey.
Group show, Alexandria, Torpedo Factory Art Center 2022-2024
The Art League Gallery – August 2022 --- “Dialog” --- Honorable Mention, juried by Amber Cowen.
Group show, Washington DC, Dupont Circle (ART ALL NIGHT 2022)
Reifinissage PARTY JE T’AIME IN FRAME YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND ME group exhibition 2016 Baku, YARAT contemporary art space
Reincarnation Beginning group exhibition in National Art Museum of Azerbaijan 2017
Group exhibitions in different galleries, Baku, Azerbaijan between 2002 – 2018
Group show, Paris, France 2017
Solo show, Paris, France 2016