Petrosyan, Petros Akopovich

Petros Petrosyan was born on December 24, 1968 in the family of theater actors Vera and Akop Petrosyanov in the city of Yerevan . Having inherited the love of beauty from their parents, being naturally gifted, from early age Petrosyan devotes himself to art and enters Yerevan Art School. Hakob Kojoyan , who successfully completed in 1984. In the same year, in order to improve the acquired skills, he entered and in 1988 graduated from the Yerevan Art College. Fanos Terlemezyan ^[1] . Being creative in nature, he does not stop at what has been accomplished and, with the aim of improving his professional skills, having successfully passed competitive exams, in 1988 he entered the Yerevan Art and Theater Institute at the painting department of the faculty of visual arts ^[1] . There he honed his skills under the leadership of the national artist Arm. SSR, Professor Mkrtich H. Sedrakyan . Having graduated from the Yerevan Art and Theater Institute in 1994, Petrosyan begins his active creative activity, organizes solo and participates in group exhibitions ^[2] . In 1998 he became a member of the Union of Artists of Armenia, and since 1998 - a member of the International Association of Fine Arts at UNESCO ^{[1] [2]} .

• 1997 - personal exhibition in the house-museum of Yervand Kochar ^[3] ( Yerevan , Armenia )
• 1997 - group exhibition at the Union of Artists of Armenia (Yerevan) ^{[1] [2]}
• 1997 - group exhibition at the National Gallery of Armenia
• 1998 - group exhibition at the Union of Artists of Armenia (Yerevan) ^{[1] [2]}
• 1999 - personal exhibition in the United States of America ^[2]
• 2000 - personal exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art ^{[1] [2] [4]} (Yerevan, Armenia)
• 2000 - personal exhibition in the building of the UN Office in Armenia ^{[2] [5]}
• 2002 - group exhibition in Cyprus ^[2] .

The artist’s selected works are ^{[1] [2] [6]} :

• 1994 - “Deforestation”
• 1995 - "Noon"
• 1996 - The Road
• 1997 - “Woe”, “Elegy”, “Masks”
• 1998 - “Cold memory”, “Immortelle”, “Butterflies”, “Song of our days”
• 1999 - "The Lonely Man of the Planet"
• 2001 - “The Mother of God”, “Crucifixion”, “Adam and Eve”.

• Zohrabyan N. “Beginning” // Armenian Time. - 1997, May 14th. - Vol. 31 . Archived September 22, 2014. (Armenian)
• Chobanyan S. “The first step in high art” // Armenia. - 1997, May 15th. - Vol. 52 . (Armenian)
• Galoyan S. “Petros Petrosyan draws what he sees and feels” // Azg. - 1997, May 15th. - Vol. 89 (Armenian)
• Meloyan S. “Embrace the Immense ” // Republic of Armenia. - 1997, June 7th. - Vol. 100 Archived September 22, 2014.
• Santryan V. “Painter Petros Petrosyan. Remember this name ” // Evening Yerevan. - 1997, July 19th. - Vol. 51 . Archived September 22, 2014. (Armenian)
• Manukyan A. “In Time and Beyond It” // Zhamanak. - 2000, June 7th. - Vol. 101 . Archived September 22, 2014. (Armenian)
• Movsisyan “The man who is always on the lookout” // Aravot. - 2000, June 7th. - Vol. 100 Archived September 22, 2014. (Armenian)
• Sarukhanyan S. “Cold Memory, Two Words about the Artist Petros Petrosyan” // Azg. - 2000, June 7th. - Vol. 103 (Armenian)
• G. Saroyan. “The Third Personal Exhibition of a Young Artist” // Shoghakn Araratyan. - 2000, (№ 7) June A. - Vol. 7 Archived September 22, 2014. (Armenian)
• Tigranyan A. “According to the inscription of identity” // Armenia, Region, World: A View from Yerevan. - 2000, July. - Vol. 7 (Armenian)
• "Modern Art of Young Artists of Armenia" . - Yerevan: Tigran Mets, 2003. - p. 56. - 70 p. - (Catalog). Archived copy of September 22, 2014 on Wayback Machine (Armenian) (eng.)
• "75th anniversary of the Union of Artists of Armenia". - Yerevan: EDIT PRINT, 2007. - 320 p. - (Catalog). - ISBN 978-99941-61-82-9 . (Armenian) (Russian) (English)
• " Who is who? Armenians "(Biographical encyclopedia in two volumes). - Yerevan: Armenian Encyclopedia, 2007. - T. 2. - p. 330. - 740 p. - (Encyclopedia). - ISBN 978-5-89-700-030-2 . (Armenian)
• "The 80th anniversary of the Union of Artists of Armenia." - Yerevan: EDIT PRINT, 2012. - 272 p. - (Catalog). - ISBN 978-9939-52-621-8 . (Armenian)

• Personal site Petros Petrosyan (English) (arm.)