Ara Shakhatuni

Parents and their surrounding, teachers from school and lecturers from university I graduated, all mainly being researchers and adepts of natural sciences, were teaching and making me to look at the world through the eyes of a scientist, which means to disintegrate, inquire, understand, explain and model everything by the laws of nature. However since childhood I was rebelling against this strict, colorless and schematic perception of the world dictated to me, and I was trying to unravel in these plain physical models the invisible, indescribable, hidden, and disappearing some other kind of unidentified and mysterious metaphysical beauty.

1991-1996 Yerevan State University
2004-2005 Drawing and painting course by member of the USSR Artists’ Union Honorable Artist Hrant Karakhanyan
2005-2006 Drawing and painting course by member of the USSR Artists’ Union Honorable Artist Anatoli Papyan

2005 Exhibition of young artists at Artist’s Union of Armenia
2005 “Armenian landscape” exhibition at Artist’s Union of Armenia
2007 Exhibition by artists of “Kerpar” Armenian Artists’ Union
2010 Exhibition in Cyprus
2011 Exhibition in Lebanon
2012 Exhibition in Dresden Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2012 Exhibition at Artist’s Union of Armenia
2013 Exhibition at Artist’s Union of Armenia