Ruben Grigoryan
Born in 1954 Yerevan, Armenia
Education
1971 – 77 Panos Terlemezian art college, Yerevan
1978 – 1984 Yerevan State Institute of Fine Arts
Experience:
1983 – 1988 Art producer at Yerevan Youth Theater
Has also illustrated 25 children books
Sector N 5
124x104.5 oil on canvas 1996
Riddles
100x80 oil on canvas 2003
Exhibitions
1990 - “Contemporary Art from Armenia”, New Academy Gallery, London
“Armenian Vanguard Artists”, group show, Kassel, Germany
“Plus-Minus”, 3rd Floor Group, Yerevan
1992- “Graffiti”, 3rd Floor Group, Yerevan
“Armenian Postmodernism”, group show, CHA, Moscow
1993 - “EX”, 3rd Floor Group, Yerevan
“Beyond Idiom”, group show, American University in Armenia, Yerevan
1994 - “Yerevan Landscape”, EX-VOTO gallery, Yerevan
“Personal Icons”, group show, EX-VOTO gallery, Yerevan
“Pacific”, 3rd Floor Group, Yerevan
1995 - “Contemporary Art in Armenia – Moscow”, days of Armenian Culture in Moscow
“Armenia - Arts and Culture – Bochum”, days of Armenian Culture in Bochum,
Germany
“5 artists from Armenia” group show, Serguey Popov Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1996 - “Position”, group show, Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan
“Work in Progress”, group show, Center for Contemporary Experimental Art,
Yerevan
“Museum Hermeticum”, EX-VOTO gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
1997 - Post Soviet Art Group Show, Borges Center, Buenos Aires
“Post Factum”, group show, Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan
“Capacity”, TAAK Modern Art Gallery, Yerevan
“Dreams and Visions”, Contemporary art from Armenia, Westin Hotel, Chicago, USA
1998 - “Meaning and Symbol”, group show, curator of project , Center for Contemporary
Experimental Art, Yerevan
“Two Artists One Creation” – Arevik Arevshatyan + Ruben Grigoryan, , Armenian Center for Contemporary
Experimental
Art, Yerevan
“Text”, group show, Ch, Khachatourian gallery
1st international Gyumri biennial
1999 - Personal exhibition in Sao-Paulo, Brazil, (Gallery Caribe)
“Three tendencies”, group show, HAY-ART cultural center., Yerevan
“Closed City”, joint project of Armenian and Russian artists, HAY-ART
cultural center., Yerevan
“Great Atrophy”, group show, HAY-ART cultural center, Yerevan
“Crisis”, group show, Center for Contemporary Experimental Art, Yerevan
2000 - 2nd international Gyumri biennial, Gyumri
“Parallel Reality”, joint project of Armenian and Austrian artists, HAY-ART cultural center., Yerevan
2001 - “UTOPIANA”, international exhibition-symposium, HAY-ART
cultural center, Yerevan
“Beyond the Icon” retrospective of Armenian contemporary art, Armenian National
Gallery, Yerevan
“Not Dedicated…”, group show, HAY-ART cultural center, Yerevan
2002 - “Cross Line”, group show-symposium, HAY-ART cultural center, Yerevan
2003 - Vicki Hovanessian collection, “Academy” gallery, Yerevan
“Adieu Parajanov – contemporary art from Armenia”, Kunsthalle/Project Space Vienna
2004 - 4-rd international Gymri biennal,Gymri
Selected bibliography
1990 - Junge Sowjetische Kunst Armenische Avangarde” catalogue
1992 - GOYAK association” exhibition catalogue
1995 - 1980-95 Armenian Contemporary Art, Moscow, catalogue
“Armenia - Arts and Culture – Bochum”, catalogue
“Noah’s Ark” Igutian Gallery, catalogue
1998 - Igutian Modern Art Gallery, Yerevan, catalogue