V Artist

ARTIST STATEMENT__________________________
To know if he created art, the artist has to come out of the process of creation - liberated from himself (or his Self). Therefore it is not a brush, hand or eye that the artist works with – but internal freedom. We have boxed everything into categories and have names for everything: painting, drawing, portrait, abstract, this - that. It works well for search engines and our convenience. But the deep urge of creativity comes in a formless force of creation. Breathe it into any form and there it is. It may be a meal, a canvas or a dance. What you can touch or experience is called "the work" of art, but "the art" is the inner experience of the creator in a given moment in which it manifests something into existence. Thus, what we can see or touch, is not the art itself. It is the work, a surface that bears the traces of that inner experience. It is all about the inner experience. And the purpose of having any work is that the work hopefully can in some way trigger in the viewer an experience of the same quality or kind.

BIOGRAPHY________________________________ I was born in a family of two artists, who had their studios right next to each other, separated with one internal door. My ear...

2014-2016
MSc in Marketing and Creativity at ESCP Europe, Paris/London

2009-2010
Academy Program at European College of Liberal Arts, Berlin
(specialised in advanced studio art class under mentorship of David Levine folllowed up with an internship with artist John von Bergen).

2008-2011
MA in Social Work at Yerevan State University, Armenia

2004-2005
UGRAD fellowship at Southern Maine Community College, USA

2003-2008
BA in social Work at Yerevan State University, Armenia

1998-2005
Music School, speciality: recorder

GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2016 Isthisit? video art Exhibition 24th edition, http://www.isthisitisthisit.com

2015 Gallery Art21, Paris

2015 Contemporary Art Fair, Joel Garcia Foundation, Paris

2011 Toys of the Idle Time, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art Yerevan

2011 15th Annual Festival of Alternative Art, Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan

2010 Group Exhibition, Gallery Caleidoscope, Berlin

2010 Three student group exhibitions at European College of Liberal Arts

2009 Three student group exhibitions at European College of Liberal Arts