Tigran Malkhasyan

Tigran Malkhasyan believes and tries to convince others, that art is subject to the same immutable laws as everything else in the natural world. These laws, complex and elusive, and insufficiently researched, are not yet within the bounds of serious science. Thus, in his opinion, historically, the study and interpretation of art falls on the shoulders of the artist himself, subject therefore to, at best, bias, and at worst, charlatans.

He is also convinced that the brain itself contains the process of evolution; certain mechanisms that respond to certain stimuli and in turn cause certain – if not thoughts, then emotions and associations. This concept has yet to be thoroughly explored, and it is up to the artist, ahead of scientists, to intuitively find the signals required to evoke in the viewer’s mind the desired answers. The better the artist himself feels these signals, the faster he will find the path to the database of the viewer’s mind; the more information it conveys, the more vivid the emotions it elicits. And there can be no doubt about the brightness of emotions, they have after all overcome millions of years of natural selection, of survival, the hunter, the hunted, life, and death. And this is what Tigran Malkhasyan im...

1980 - 83
Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute, St. Petersburg. Studied radio electronics.

1985 - 89
A. F. Ioffe Physical – Technical Institute, St. Petersburg. Studied non-destructive optical testing and laser technology. He was one of the first in the USSR to
engage in pictorial holography using the Denisyuk method.

1986 - present
Works as a freelance artist

Selected solo exhibitions:

2024: Tigran Malkhasyan: Fractal Expressionism. Art Gallery TEOS, Monte-Carlo, Monaco.
Tigran Malkhasyan: Biomorphic visions: beyond the natural and synthetic. Art Gallery
Excellence, Saint-Jean-Cap-Ferrat, France.

2023: Tigran Malkhasyan: Fractals. Open You Art Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.

2021: Tigran Malkhasyan: Concretions. Arts Square Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.

2020: Tigran Malkhasyan: Structures. Museum of Contemporary Art ARTMUZA, St.
Petersburg, Russia.

2018: Tigran Malkhasyan. Art Gallery Le Garage, Antibes, France.

2007: Tigran Malkhasyan: Urban Environment. Gallery «Atelier #2» of the Center for
Contemporary Art «Winzavod», Moscow, Russia.

2006: Tigran Malkhasyan: Transformation of Form. Gallery «Atelier #2» of the Center
for Contemporary Art «Winzavod», Moscow, Russia.

1998: Tigran Malkhasyan. Gallery Old house, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Tigran Malkhasyan. House of Russian-German Friendship, Hamburg, Germany

1997: Tigran Malkhasyan. Gallery Fedor, St. Petersburg, Russia.

1995: Tigran Malkhasyan. Gallery Krunk, St. Petersburg, Russia.

1988: Tigran Malkhasyan. Leningrad Rock Club, St. Petersburg, Russia.


Selected group exhibitions:

2022: Les Voiles d'Antibes. Antibes, Franc...