NAREK AVETISIAN
1969 Born in Yerevan, Armenia.
1988 Graduated from P. Terlemezian Arts College, Yerevan, Armenia.
1988-1992 Advanced studies at Painting Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Yerevan, Armenia
2011 Member of the Artists’ Union of Armenia.
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2019 Arame Art Gallery presents “Canvases of Jajur” by Narek Avetisian Yerevan, Armenia
2014 Minas and Narek Avetisyan. Modernism and Avantgarde in Armenia. Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle, Halle, Germany.
2013 Simulacrum. 33 Transformations of “The Girl with the Pearl Earring” by Jan Vermeer, InteriorDAsein gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2012 Simulacrum. 33 Transformations of “The Girl with the Pearl Earring” by Jan Vermeer, Zamek-Krolewski, Royal Castle (Oct. 2012 – Jan. 2013), Warsaw, Poland.
2011 Simulacrum. 33 Transformations of “The Girl with the Pearl Earring” by Jan Vermeer, Academia Gallery (26.10.-10.11.2011), Yerevan, Armenia.
2011 Simulacrum. 33 Transformations of “The Girl with the Pearl Earring” by Jan Vermeer, UNDP Country Office, (Aug. 2011), Yerevan, Armenia.
2011 Simulacrum. 33 Transformations of “The Girl with the Pearl Earring” by Jan Vermeer at the Salon international d’art “artbygeneve”, (Apr. 2011), Geneva, Switzerland.
2011 Simulacrum. 33 Transformations of “The Girl with the Pearl Earring” by Jan Vermeer and Fractal-Transformations, the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art: ACCEA “NPAK”, (March 2011), Yerevan, Armenia.
2009 Coming Back, City Hall, Yerevan, Armenia.
2006 Spaces of Light and Trace, the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art: ACCEA “NPAK”, Yerevan, Armenia.
2000 Yerevan Biennale, the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art: ACCEA “NPAK”, Yerevan, Armenia.
1993 The 5th International Festival of Classical Music”, curated by Vladimir Spivakov, Colmar, France.
1992 ACHROME performance, Centrum Culturi, Lublin, Poland.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 – “Spring Salon 2020”. Artist’s Union of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
2019 Second International Art Fair, Expo -center, Yerevan, Armenia
2018 First International Art Fair, Expo -center, Yerevan, Armenia
2017 Exhibition, dedicated to 20th anniversary of ACCEA, ACCEA, Yerevan, Armenia
2016 Will to life, Kalentz Мuseum, Yerevan, Armenia
2014 Minas and Narek Avetisyan. Modernism and Аvantgarde in Armenia. Kunstmuseum Moritzburg Halle, Halle, Germany
2012 The Album of the Fifth Beijing International art Biennale, including the Special Exhibition of Contemporary Art of Armenia, at the Fifth Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing, China
2011 VIEW: ARMENIAN CONTEMPORARY ART dedicated to 20th Anniversary of the Independence of Armenia 2011, (12.12.2011), Yerevan, Armenia
2011 Charity Auction of Contemporary Armenian Art, at CHRISTIE’S Fine Art Auctions (09.12.2011), London, England
2011 Armenian Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art of Kuwait, (March), Kuwait-City, Kuwait
2011 Constitution and Art Celebration of the 15th Anniversary of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Armenia, at the Constitutional Court, (Feb.), Yerevan, Armenia
2010 Optimism. Armenian New Art, the Artist’s Union, Yerevan, Armenia
2005 Oil, Canvas, Academy Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
2004 Audiovision Collaborative Project with techno-musicians of the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art: ACCEA “NPAK”, Yerevan, Armenia
2003 Getting Closer - Vier Armenier suchen einen Ausweg, in IFA-Gallery, Berlin and Bonn, Germany
2002 Armenian Contemporary Art, Center of Contemporary Arts, Tehran, Iran
2002 Festival of Alternative Art, the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art: ACCEA “NPAK”, Yerevan, Armenia
2001 Utopiana Armenian - Swiss exhibition, Hay-art cultural center, Yerevan, Armenia
2001 Space and Sound, the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art: ACCEA “NPAK”, Yerevan, Armenia
2000 Instead of Voice, Hay-art Cultural Center, Yerevan, Armenia
2000 Second International Art Biennale, Gyumri, Armenia
2000 Festival of Alternative Art, the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art: ACCEA “NPAK”, Yerevan, Armenia
2000 Virtual Manifest. Armenian Artists on Cyber-spatial Relations, the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art: ACCEA “NPAK”, Yerevan, Armenia
1999 Earth, Universe, Dream, the 48th International Art Biennale, Venice, Italy
1999 Childish Fears or the Christmas Eve, the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art: ACCEA “NPAK”, Yerevan, Armenia
1999 Great Atrophy, Hay-art Cultural Center, Yerevan, Armenia
1998 Yerevan Biannual Exhibition of Avant-Garde Art, Yerevan, Armenia
1996 Intervention in Closed Systems”, Factory of Robotics, Yerevan, Armenia
1996 Beautiful Progress, the Armenian Center for Contemporary Experimental Art: ACCEA “NPAK” Yerevan, Armenia
1995 Contemporary Art of Armenia of the 1980-1995s, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
1995 Art Demonstration, Act Group, Yerevan Museum of Contemporary Art, Yerevan, Armenia
1995 Act, Ex-Voto Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
1994 Clean Creation, Gallery of Arvest magazine, Yerevan, Armenia
1994 Yerevan Landscape, Ex-Voto Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
1994 Youth Exhibition, Artists’ Union, Yerevan, Armenia
1994 The Third Floor - Ex, Artists’ Union, Yerevan, Armenia
1991 Monochrome, Gallery of Aesthetic Center, Yerevan, Armenia
Jajur Viewpoints , 2018
Jajur Feelings, 2018
Jajur Mystery, 2018
Shapemaking, 2018
Variations, 2018
Parallel infinities
Nature's formula
Organized Chaos, 2020
Spirited 8, 2018
The Canvas of Traces 2, 2021
The Canvas of Traces 1, 2021
Trace canvases series, (pink and red), 2017
Trace canvases series, (red and blue), 2020
Fluorescent Red and Sky Blue, 2006
Trace canvases series, (yellow and green), 2020
Orange and Green, 2006
Minas is alive and he will remain alive in Narek!
25/03/1981 Sergey Parajanov
Other things equal, it was far harder for Narek Avetisyan to find his constructive role in Armenian multi-layered and rich panorama of paintings than for any other artist.
Narek is Minas’s son, and this is both a powerful runway and a high bar, as well as a supernatural limitation for him.
Narek has been able to use the possibilities provided by this runway to his best and given the high bar he has set the highest demands and criteria for himself being able to overcome the current limitations with dignity.
Armen Darbinyan
RAU Rector, public and political figure,
Doctor of Economics, Professor
“Narek’s art touches upon the heart and the consciousness; it also carries love in itself towards heroic and saint traditions. I am confident his works of art constitute an enviable heritage of not only contemporary Armenian, but also world art. Narek Avetisyan continues the traditions which were the basis of the XX century avant-garde art which intertwines with Armenian art by refreshing them. Narek is an accomplished painter, a great professional on the international arena.
At the same time, he develops his technique and sentiments by presenting himself as a mature maestro and a surprised juvenile. These jaw-dropping features make him not only a great Armenian artist, but also an international one. The richness and passion of his inner world create “an inner paradise” which has been presented in the series of JAJUR CANVASES, a vivid, untainted and unprecedented series.”
Massimo Lippi
Art theorist,
Writer and poet, sculptor, theatrical director,
Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara, reporter at “Avenire Catholic” and “Milan” periodicals
