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 ...

1993-1998 National Aesthetic Center of Art, Yerevan, Armenia
2001-2002 BA, Postgraduate Cyprus College of Art, Paphos, Cyprus

2023 Carnavalesque, Palazzo Pisani Revedin, Venice, Italy
2022 Angels and Demons Centro Saint-Benin, Art Museum, Aosta, Italy
2020 Angels and Demons, Palazzo Chigi in Ariccia , Italy
2018 Visual Poet, Tufenkian Gallery, Los Angles, USA
2017 Portrays of Imaginary Souls, Antikyan Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
2016 Contemporary Man, AC Gallery, Lublijana, Slovenia
2016 Personalitys, Antikian Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
2015 Citizens, Studio Vendome, New York, USA
2015 Tera-Genesis, Pharos Contemporary Art Museum, Nicosia, Cyprus
2014 Arshak Sarkissian: Opus 39 Gallery, Cyprus, Nicosia
2013 Personality Antikyan Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
2010 Brning Man, Mildberry Gallery, Russia, Moscow
2010 Radio Gaga, Gavriel Gallery, Bremen, Germany
2011 Arshak Sarkissian, Drawings, Opus 39 Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
2009 The Look , Albemarle Gallery, London, UK
2005 Night life, Academy Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
1999 Circular, National Aesthetic Center of Art, Armenia
2000 Citizen’s, Opus 39, Nicosia, Cyprus
2004 Strangers, O...