Robert Ovakimyan

Robert Ovakimyan was born in 1966 in the city of Kapan, Armenia. The artist currently lives and works in Saint-Petersburg.

EDUCATION

• 1986-1989 – Leningrad Art-Industrial School named after Mukhina;
• 1987-1989 – was taught by one of the most famous artists of the Russian avant-garde, student of the Vitebsk studio of Marc Chagall, the artist Solomon Gershova;
• 1993 – cooperation with the Institute of Material and Artistic Culture;
• Since 2002 - a member of the Union of Artists.

Specialization: painter.

SELECTED GROUP AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS

• 2008 – Academic Interregional Exhibition "Meetings in St. Petersburg," St. Petersburg, Russia;
• 2007 – Solo exhibition with the support of Gazprombank, St. Petersburg, Russia;
• 2006 – Solo exhibition "Another World" New Carlebach, Finland; Exhibition Hall of the Elaginoostrovsky Palace Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia;
• 2006 – An exhibition of artists of the North-West region, the Academy of Stieglitz, St. Petersburg, Russia;
• 2006 – "Exhibition of Armenian Artists", Exhibition Hall "Manege", St. Petersburg, Russia;
• 2006 – Exhibition of St. Petersburg artists. National Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia;
• 2005 – The exhibition in the framework of the international project "Dialogues" with the participation of Scandinavian artists, the exhibition hall of the Creative Union of Artists, St. Petersburg, Russia;
• 2005 – Solo exhibition "Winter Gallery", branch of London Contemporary Arts Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia;
• 2005 – The exhibition "Angels of St. Petersburg", Memorial Museum of Pushkin, St. Petersburg, Russia;
• 2004 – "Russian view of Italy", Exhibition Hall of the Creative Union of Artists, St. Petersburg, Russia;
• 2004 – Personal exhibition, Gallery "Borsboom" Utrecht, The Netherlands;
• 2003 – Personal exhibition "Faces of Earth", Exhibition Hall of the Creative Union of Artists, St. Petersburg, Russia;
• 2003 – Personal exhibition, Gallery "Storm", the city of Vaasa, Finland;
• 2003 – Personal exhibition, Gallery "Matisse Club" Saint-Petersburg, Russia;
• 2003 – "Tradition and Modernity" The 85th Anniversary Exhibition of the Russian Union of Artists (IFA in collaboration with the State Russian Museum) Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", St. Petersburg, Russia;
• 2002 – "Free Breathing" in the framework of the project of the State Russian Museum "Abstraction in Russia", Exhibition Hall of the Creative Union of Artists, St. Petersburg, Russia;
• 2001 – "Caught in the net", Gallery D-137, St. Petersburg, Russia;
• 1997 – Personal exhibition, Gallery «Villa Sveden», Yakobshtadt, Latvia;
• 1996 – «ArtGenda» International Exhibition, Copenhagen, Denmark;
• 1996 – Personal exhibition in memory of Solomon Gershova, Gallery "Victor", Finland;
• 1996 – Personal exhibition Vasa Andelsbank, Vaasa, Finland;
• 1996 – AFRICUS the first international Biennale in Johannesburg, South Africa;
• 1994 – Personal exhibition, Gallery "Krunk" St. Petersburg, Russia;
• 1994 – "Culture Kema" State Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia;
• 1994 – “The Armenian artists of St. Petersburg”, the Museum of the Leningrad Art-Industrial School named after Mukhina, St. Petersburg;
• 1993 – "The modern self-portrait", Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", St. Petersburg, Russia;
• 1992 – Personal exhibition, Gallery "Paradise", St. Petersburg, Russia;
• 1992 – "Resurrection", State Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia;
• 1991 – Personal exhibition, Jazz Philharmonic Hall, Leningrad;
• 1990 – "Factura Viva", Jazz Philharmonic Hall, Leningrad;
• 1990 – Exhibition of Russian independent artists, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Oslo, London, Copenhagen, Leningrad;
• 1989 – The first solo exhibition, Gallery "Nevsky 20", Leningrad;
• 1989 – "Two Generations" Leningrad Fine Arts 1950-1980 gg., The State Museum of the city of Leningrad.
   

SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

• Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Armenia;
• Parajanov Museum in Yerevan;
• Collection of the Creative Union of Artists, St. Petersburg;
• Museum of Contemporary Art "Erarta", St. Petersburg, Russia;
• Collection of the City of New Carlebach, Finland;
• Temirkanov’s art collection and other private collections in Russia, Germany, Finland, Sweden, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria, the USA, France, Norway, etc.
   

TITLES, AWARDS, RECEIVED GRANTS

• In 2006 he was awarded the silver medal of the Russian Academy of Arts.