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.

Avetyans works are kept in

• National Art Gallery of Armenia,
• The Ethnography Museum of Armenia,
• 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.