Eduard Arakelyan ( hy, Էդուարդ Առաքելյան; February 28, 1950) is an
Armenia
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n painter.
Early life
Arakelyan was born February 28, 1950, in
Gyumri
Gyumri ( hy, Գյումրի, ) is an urban municipal community and the second-largest city in Armenia, serving as the administrative center of Shirak Province in the northwestern part of the country. By the end of the 19th century, when the city w ...
(previously
Leninakan
Gyumri ( hy, Գյումրի, ) is an urban municipal community and the second-largest city in Armenia, serving as the administrative center of Shirak Province in the northwestern part of the country. By the end of the 19th century, when the city w ...
),
Armenia
Armenia (), , group=pron officially the Republic of Armenia,, is a landlocked country in the Armenian Highlands of Western Asia.The UNbr>classification of world regions places Armenia in Western Asia; the CIA World Factbook , , and ''Ox ...
.
Education
Arakelyan graduated from Children's Artistic Academy in 1965 and was accepted to Art School of
Panos Terlemezian in 1966.
After that he continued his education in Artist-Actor Institute majoring in design. During these years he had many personal exhibitions, received many awards and has been awarded many medals for being an outstanding student.
Career
From 1978 to September 1998, he taught at the Art School of Panos Terlemezian. In 1981 he became a member of the Armenian Youth Artist's section. During the 80s he also had many exhibitions. An exhibition of Armenian Water Paint Masters was opened in Poland in 1988, where his painting “White Roses” brought excitement to everybody.
In the exhibition the Japanese computer system was pointed to the painting, which exploded in music and colors. For that painting, and for others also, he was awarded prizes.
He was accepted to the USSR's Union of Artists in 1988. In 1994 he visited Sweden and was painting there for two months.
Eduard Arakelyan's paintings are now being a part of personal belongings of people living in Australia, Hungary, Russia, Sweden, Canada and United States. His paintings are in different galleries of Republics of USSR and countries of Europe.
From 1994 to 1998 he participated in a series of exhibitions of Russia, Georgia and Armenia.
Since 1991 he is a member of the World's Union of Professional Artists of
UNESCO
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. Since September 1998 he resides in
New York City
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.
In December 1998 he participated in Monica Goldstrom's gallery favorable exhibition dedicated to Long Island's Breast Cancer foundation.
Now Eduard Arakelyan's paintings are in Royal Design Connection gallery in California.
External links
Eduard Arakelyan
1950 births
Living people
People from Gyumri
Armenian painters
Armenian expatriates in the United States
Soviet Armenians
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