Mayis Mkhitaryan

A powerful theatrical sense and an innate playfulness fill this world of wandering circuses, colorful bazaars, and artists’ lives .

Mayis Mkhitaryan creates elegant court scenes with a Surrealist twist, where, for example, beautifully gowned ladies may carry on their coiffures ribboned hats containing exotic birds and fish.

In 2000 Mayis become a member of the Armenian Artists Union .

In 2003 Mayis become a member of the Association of creative individuals at UNESCO .

One of Mayis’s artworks especially ” Dreams fairy ” is in Nicola Sarkozy’s`s collection . When Nicola Sarkozy visited to Armenia in 2011 , He get it present from All Armenian Catolicos Karekin II .

Sheikh Sultan III bin Mohammed al-Qasimi who paid 8 million $ for repairing Armenian Church Haxarcin , get present one of Mayis’s artworks ” To Eternity “ from All Armenian Catolicos Karekin II .

Mayis Mkhitaryan is a painter who brings to the ancient Armenian culture a new way of thinking. His paintings are a multifaceted unity of his birthplace, Tbilisi, different ethnicities, everyday life that resembles wandering circuses, Armenian theatre and artisans, colorful baths and bazaars — a culture rich with sun-burnt mountains, bent but still standing temple...

Mayis was born in 1962 in Tbilisi, Georgia . From fourth grade Mayis began studying in the Palace of Pioneers, Circle Drawing , up to the tenth grade . Four years He studied at the Academy of Arts in Tbilisi, after Mayis went to Saint Petersburg to enter The Russian Academy of Arts named by Ilya Repin , there Secretary of Membership of Union of Artists Mr. Golumov told him, “As an artist, You’ve held, You’ve found your own world and your thinking , the Academy will change your world ” . After Mayis had returned to Tbilisi and continued working .

Personal Exhibitions :

1993 – Exhibitions in Tbilisi , Georgia

1993 – Exhibitions in Yerevan , Armenia

1996 – Exhibition in Yerevan , Armenia

2003 – Exhibition in Moscow , Russia

2006 – Exhibition in “Gabone” gallery, Yerevan , Armenia

Group Exhibitions :

1992 – Exhibition in Moscow , Russia

1996 – Exhibition in ” National Gallery of Armenia ” , Yerevan

1997 – Exhibition in Las Vegas , the USA

1998 – Exhibition in ” Art Union of Republic of Armenia ” , Yerevan

1998 – Exhibition in ” Gallery of Modern Art ” , Yerevan , Armenia

2000 - Exhibition in ” Gallery of Modern Art ” , Yerevan , Armenia

2000 – Exhibition in Munich , Germany

2001 - Exhibition in ” Art Union of Republic of Armenia ” , Yerevan

2007 – Exhibition in the USA

2008 – Exhibition in the USA

2013 - Exhibition in ” Art Union of Republic of Armenia ” , Yerevan

2014 – Exhibition in ” Gallery Mentana ” , Florence , Italy