Anatoli Avetyan

Biography

• 1952 Was born on September 5th, in Siberia (Prokopievsk, Kemerov region) in the family of deportees.
• 1967 Moved to Armenia (Kirovakan) with family.
• 1969 Entered the Art College after the name of P.Terlemezyan in Yerevan.
• 1972 Entered the Academy of Arts in Tbilisi.
• 1976 Graduated from the Yerevan Fine Arts institute.
• 1976 Took part in the “Art of Armenia” exhibition organized in Iceland.
• 1983 One-man exhibition at the House of Journalists of Armenia in Yerevan. Took part on the days of Armenia culture organized in Holland as a member of  Armenian delegation.
• 1984 Took part on the “Armenian Applied Art” exhibition organized in Peterburgh and Moskow.
• 1988 Joined Artists Union of the USSR.
• 1989 Took part on the “Armenian Decorative Applied Art” exhibition   organized in Switzerland.
• 1992 One-man exhibition at the House of Painters of Armenia in Yerevan. One-man exhibition in Paris at the “Montparnase Gallery”.
• 1993 One-man exhibition at the city administration of Paris by invitation of Mr. Jacques Toubon – the Minister of Culture of France.
• 1994 One man exhibition in Aleppo (Syria). One-man exhibition at the “Watergate Gallery” in Washington D.C. One-man charitable exhibition in Los-Angeles (U.S.A).
• 1997 One-man exhibition in Chicago and Atlanta (U.S.A).
  One-man exhibition at the National Art Gallery of Armenia, Yerevan. Admitted the artists` International Association of   UNESCO.
• 2001 One-man exhibition in Knock-Zoud “Pantheon Gallery”(Belgium). Exhibition at the Central House of Painters in Moscow.
• 2002 One-man exhibition at the House of Painters of Armenia in Yerevan.
• 2005 One-man jubilee exhibition in Yerevan.
• 2006 Live and work in New York (U.S.A.).
• 2007 One-man exhibition in Vanadzor (Armenia).
• 2008 One-man exhibition in Goris (Armenia).
  One-man exhibition at the House of Painters of Armenia in Yerevan.
  Was elected as a member of managing council of the Union of Artists of Armenia.
• 2009 Honorary title of Emeritus Artist of the Republic of Armenia.
  Honorary Citizen of the town of Vanadzor.
• 2012 Jubilee solo exhibition in Vanadzor (Armenia).
  Jubilee solo exhibition in Alaverdi (Armenia).
  Jubilee solo exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art in Yerevan.
  Awarded with Gold Medal by the Governer of Lori Region.
• 2015 One-man exhibition in Vanadzor ( Armenia).
  Jubilee solo exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art in Yerevan.
  Awarded og Grigor Narekatsi Medal of the Ministry of Armenia.
• 2016 One –man exhibition in Moscow, (Russia).
  One –man exhibition in Cairo, (Egypt).
  One –man exhibition in Beirut, (Lebanon).
  Honorary title of National Artsit of the Republic Armenia

Avetyans works are kept in

• National Art Gallery of Armenia,
• The Ethnography Museum of Armenia,
• Museum of Modern Art in Yerevan,
• Ministry of Culture,
• Arts Fund of Armenia,
• Arts Fund of Moscow,
• “ALMA” Museum of Boston,
• City administration of Paris,
• Parajanov House-Museum (Yerevan),
• Presidents residence of Armenia.
• Avetyans works are also kept by the presidents of  Russia, France, and U.S.A.
• Residence of the Catholicos of all Armenians in Holly Echmiadzin, in Vatican at the Popes residence.