Garik Karapetyan was born in 1973 in Armenia. He started painting at a young age, attending an art school from youth. He was ten years old when he had his first solo exhibition. From 1990 to 1996 he received a professional education in Yerevan’s Art Academy in Armenia. His familiarity with international art and with his constant research, the artist became closer and closer to abstract art. He noticed the freedom and lack of restriction in arts traditions and customs. This was the meaning of art for him. Starting from the year 1995 he shared his art with the world- in USA, France, Armenia, and Russia’s art galleries and cultural centers. He had three solo exhibitions in France and in 2007 with Marseilles City Hall’s orders he drew a fresco for a schools exterior wall. The artist’s paintings are in Armenia’s Ministry of Culture "Found of Culture" and many other different countries private collections.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, Marseille, Yeravan,
 

RESUME

EDUCATION
1990-1996 Graduated from Yerevan State Academy of Art Department of Painting, Armenia

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

2008 UGAB Centre Culturel, Marseille, France
2007 Fresco on the wall school Les Lierres, Marseille, France
2005 Centre Culturel Sahak- Mesrop, Marseille, France
2005 Gallery l'AUTRE COTE , Marseille, France
1983 Journalists' Union Exhibition Hall, Yerevan, Armenia

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 Gallery H.Kazan Fine Arts, Los Angeles, USA
2008 International Art Expo, Las Vegas, USA
2008 Gallery Anna-Tschopp, Marseille, France
2008 Armenian Artists Union's Exhibition Hall, Yerevan, Armenia
2007 Gallery Ucellino, Marseille, France
2007 Maison de Ventes de Damien Leclere, Marseille, France
2007 Maire du 12e arrondissement, Marseille, France
2007 Museum Minas Avetissian, Jajur, Armenia
2006 Gabone Art Gallery,Yerevan, Armenia
2006 Art Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
2005 Academia Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
2004 Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL USA
2001 Brad Cooper Gallery, Tampa, FL USA
2000 Ministiry of Culture of Armenia ,Fund for Culture, Yerevan
2000 Modern Art State Museum of Armenia, Yerevan
2000 United Nations Organization of Yerevan, Armenia
1999 Armenian Artists Union's Exhibition Hall, Yerevan, Armenia
1997 Yerevan State Academy of Art, Yerevan
1996 Morfinservise's Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia
1995 Maritime Bank's Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia
1995 Armenian Embassy in Moscow, Russia
1994 Tumanian State Museum, Yerevan, Armenia
1992 Modern Art Museum of Yerevan, Armenia
1991 Ministry of Education of Armenia, Yerevan

ACCOMPLISHMENTS

''Fund for Culture", Ministry of Culture of Armenia
Private collections in Armenia, Russia, France, Germany, Holland, Sweden, USA, etc


Member Artists Union of the Armenia and UNESCO
 

It's important for me to liberate sensuality from memory images inevitably coming with each attempt to project subconsciously originated conceptions. I give freedom to a color and a shape so they be able to develop as spiritual elements for plastic reproduction of " an internal necessity", becoming inexpressible intuition, an unexplainable content, and feelings proceeding from essence, to be more exact, becoming a thing that expresses a soul's nature.
I set free my actions from direct dependence of nature's and art's conventionality. There's another image not associated with a picture-sensual, which probably comes from deeper subconscious layers, without spontaneously perceived associations of external world.

It is necessary for an artist to concentrate not only eyes but also to focus in his/her soul and be able to put external impressions and perceptions through a soul's prism in order to involve the soul as a decisive force while creating works of art.
A picture has its own life. I try to reveal it. Each spectator creates his/her individual connection with a picture's energy.
Art cannot save a human being. However, it's possible to create a dialog by means of art. That dialog will give a human being an opportunity to expose himself/herself and become as close to high spiritual values as possible.