Krikor Agopian is a Canadian-Armenian

painter Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a solid surface (called the "matrix" or "support"). The medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush, but other implements, such as knives, sponges, and ai ...

Le peintre Krikor Agopian dans son atelier avec une de ses oeuvres

Career

As a youth educated in Canada, he took courses on commercial, fashion, industrial, and furniture design. His designs earned him an acceptance at Concordia University as an applicant for an electronic engineering degree. After a design course in his major, Agopian was offered an individual exhibition, a rare event for first-year students. On witnessing his work, his professor urged him to switch to fine arts.Krikor "Agopian, Master of Fragments, Tamer of the Whole", Hania Jurdak, Cedar Wings magazine, page 34, May 8, 1999

Academic formation

* Studio 5316,

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, Canada * Washington School of Fine Arts,

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, United States *

Concordia University Concordia University ( French: ''Université Concordia'') is a public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1974 following the merger of Loyola College and Sir George Williams University, Concordia is one of the t ...

, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Professor

* Beirut School Of Fine Arts 1972–73, 1978–80 *

Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts The Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts (ALBA; french: Académie libanaise des Beaux-Arts; ar, الأكاديمية اللبنانية للفنون الجميلة) was originally a stand-alone Lebanese institute, now one of the faculties at the Univer ...

1977-81 *

Institute of Fine Arts The Institute of Fine Arts (IFA) of New York University is dedicated to graduate teaching and advanced research in the history of art, archaeology and the conservation and technology of works of art. It offers Master of Arts and Doctor of Philoso ...

, 1981-85 Kaslik

Prizes

* Mention of honner, T.M.A, Beirut 1972 * Prizes of Excellence, Makhoul, 1980 * 1st prize, Makhoul, 1981 * * National Competition of Visual Arts, Montreal, 1990 :2nd Grand Prize, all categories * National Competition of Visual Arts, Montreal, 1991 :2nd Grand Prize all categories * Nomination: Prize of Artistic Excellence Laval, 1991 * National Competition of Visual Arts, Montreal, 1996 :3 rd Grand Prize all categories * International Competition Visual Arts, Montreal, 1997 :1st Prize Abstract. * International Visual Arts, Montreal, 1998 :1st Trophy • Surrealism

Bibliography

* Participated in numerous international radio and television programs. * Multiple works reproduced in many art magazines. Multiple articles in international magazines: * Magazine Art International (1991 No.4) * Parcours (1992 No sept.) * Marché de l’art Guide vallée (3 e. édition) * Applied Arts (1990 Vol. 5) etc. * Guide de Roussan 2009 etc. Participated in more than 250 collective exhibition in Canada, United States, Europe and the Middle East. Agopian's art work can be found in many private and public collections, museums, art societies in Canada, United States, Europe and the Middle East.

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External links

Krikor Agopian official website

Agopian Krikor
Living people Lebanese people of Armenian descent Lebanese painters Lebanese emigrants to Canada Ethnic Armenian painters Naturalized citizens of Canada Canadian people of Armenian descent Canadian painters Canadian contemporary painters Year of birth missing (living people) {{Lebanon-painter-stub