ARTOUR OSHAKANTSI

b. 5 October 1953 in Oshakan *, Armenia

 

* Oshakan is a pre-historical site of human habitation in the mountains of Caucasus. It is where St. Mesrop Mashtots is buried. Mashtots, in the Fourth century AD created the Armenian Alphabet which being perfect to the Armenian langauge is still used today intact, as Mashtots had created. As on Mashtots, so upon Artour Oshakantsi, the landscape of Armenia and Nature's Forms of fructification are main influences on their creative imagination. First Exhibited at the age of Thirteen, long before pursuing a formal academic training;

   
1966 - Yerevan, capital of Armenia (Solo Exhibition)
   
1968 - Bologna, Italy (Group Exhibition)
   
1969 - Yerevan (Solo)
   
1972 -
1976 -
Graduated from the Art Department of the Yerevan Pedagogical University
   
1974 - Yerevan (Solo)
   
1976 - Various exhibitions in the Soviet Union and Abroad
   
1978 - Yerevan (Group Exhibition)
   
1980 - Member of the Youth section of the USSR Artists' Union
   
1985 - Group Exhibition in Moscow, USSR
   
1987 - (a) Shtokert Collection, Munich, Germany
  (b) Museum of Modern Art, Yerevan Armenia. <<April 16>>
   
1988 - Full Member of the USSR Artists' Union
   
1989 -
(a) Group Exhibition, Gallery Express-Avantgarde, Moscow
(b) Represented the Soviet Union in an Exhibition of Artists from all the Socialist countries of the World, Moscow.
(c) Represented the Soviet Fund of Social Discovery, attached to UNESCO, exhibiting in the USA (Washington DC, Arlington, Ann-Arbour Detroit etc.)
   
1990 -
(a) Group Exhibition, Gallery Express Avantgarde, Vienna, Austria
(b) Group Exhibition, Gallery Express Avangarde, New York, USA
   
1991 -
(a) Invited to Warsaw, Poland; Exhibitions in Klub Oficerow
(b) Hotel Mariot
(c) Gallery Monetti
(d) Museum Niepodlegloshi
(e) Gallery Kontakt (Solo)
(f) Gallery Karamanoukian, Ann Arbour, Michigan,USA (Solo)
   
1992 - Invited to London by Cottenham Gallery
(a) The Alberti Gallery, Summer Exhibition, Cork Street,
(b) The Alberti Gallery, Russian Realism, Cork Street
   
1993 - The Alberti Gallery, East European Art, Cork Street
   
1994 -
(a) Art 94, Contemporary Art Fair, Business Design Centre, London
(b) Posk Gallery, Hammersmith, London (Solo)
(c) The Alberti Gallery, Artists from former USSR, Cork Street, London
(d) Russian Art Gallery, Ealing, London (Solo)
   
1995 - Exoticus Gallery, Knightsbridge, London
   
1996 - The Hill Gallery, Highgate, London (Solo)
   
1997 - Contemporary Art Fair, Chelsea, London
   
1998 - Contemporary Art Fair, London
   
1999 - St. Raphael Gallery, Piccadilly, London (Solo)
   
2000 - (a) Workhouse Gallery, Chelsea, London
(b) Gallery Art @ Windsor Royal Station,  Windsor UK
(c) The Grove-Gallery, Ealing, London (Solo)
   
2001 - (a) St. Raphael Gallery, Piccadilly, London
(b) The Grove-Gallery, Ealing, London (Solo)
(c) ArtLondon.com Gallery
(d)
Museum of Modern Art, Yerevan Armenia. (Solo)
(e) First floor art gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
(f) Piere Schwarzenbach gallery, Canne, France
(g) Pitshanger Gallery, Ealing, London
   
2002 Represented the Armenian Art Magazine in UK.
   
2003 Acknowledged as the Founder of Abstract Naturalism in the History of Art by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/ht/11/waa/ht11waa.htm
   
2003 - 04 Gallery Akanat, Yerevan, Armenia.
   
2004 Earth Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus
   
2004 - 05 The Grove-Gallery, Ealing, London (Solo).
   
2005 AOCC Yerevan, Armenia (Solo).
   
2005 Outer Temple Chambers, Strand, London (Solo).
   
2004 - 2005 Winner of the first prize for the best exhibition of the Grove Gallery, London.
   
From 2005 - present Artist in residence of the Art Therapy department of NHS, London
   
2006 ARK Space London (Solo)
   
2006 Akademia Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia (Solo)
   
2007 Municipality of Yerevan, Personal Exhibition, September-October
   
2007 Armenian Biographical Encyclopedia, Who is Who
   
2007 Member of the International Art Association of UNESCO
   
2008 75th Anniversary of the Union of Armenian Artists, Yerevan
   
2008 One Nation, One Culture. Armenian Art, Yerevan
   
2008 In memory of Arshile Gorky, Minas Museum, Jajur, Armenia
   
2008 State Museum of Art and Literature, Yerevan, Armenia
   
2009 Gallery One, Yerevan, Armenia
   
2009 Elite Life Fair, Yerevan, Armenia
   
Artour Oshakantsi 's website :
   
  oshakantsi.com
ArtLondon.com

metmuseum.org
ArmenianAbstractArtists.com
   
Artour Oshakantsi’s Works are in:
   
  The Armenian Cultural Center, Yerevan, Armenia
The Armenian Fine Arts Center, Yerevan
Modern Art Museum of Yerevan
Museum of History, City of Yerevan
Gallery of Stepanakert, Gharabagh, Armenia
Oshakan Cultural Hall, Armenia
Mesrop Mashtots School of Oshakan
Children’s Centre of Art – Education, Abovian, SOS munkakan gyugh, Armenia
Supreme Patriarch and Catholicos of all Armenians, Ejmiatsin, Armenia
Charles Aznavour Private Collection, Paris, France

SOS Armenia Art Centre, Geneva, Switzerland
Museum Niepodlegloshi, Gallery Kontakt, Warsaw, Poland, Hotel Marriot, Warsaw
Alec Manookian Art Museum, Detroit
Belgian Art Centre, Detroit
Arlington Church, Washington DC
School of Art, Ann Arbour, Michigan
Gallery Minnotower Karamanukian, Ann Arbour, Michigan
Los Angeles Art Association
The Alberti Gallery, London
Anahit Association, London
Russian Art Gallery, London
St.Raphael Gallery, London
ArtLondon.com Gallery, London
First floor art gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
Piere Schwarzenbach gallery, Canne, France
Galery Akanat, Yerevan, Armenia.
Armenian Art, Yerevan, Armenia.
Akademia Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia.
National Health Trust, London, UK
State Museum of Art and Literature, Yerevan, Armenia
Shtokert Collection, Munich, Germany
 
Gallery Express Avantgarde, Moscow/ Vienna/ New York
 
Private  Collections in:
 
  Africa, Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, UK, USA, Former USSR and Armenia.

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