Razmik Pogosyan is a very multitalented and versatile artist. He uses nearly every medium-oil, watercolor, pastel, papier-mâché, to name a few, and yet he also possesses an amazingly unique style of his own.
Mr. Pogosyan was born in 1946, in Gyumri, Armenia. His fascination with the genre of painting began very early, and he was already winning awards for his works as a teenager.
After graduating from the School of Fine Arts in Gyumri, Razmik Pogosyan moved to Yerevan, Armenia, where he attended and graduated from the Terlemezian Art College and The Academy of Fine Arts in both with Honors of Excellence.
By this time, he was already actively participating in exhibitions both in Armenia as well as in Russia and abroad.
After graduating, Mr. Pogosyan became the artist -decorator and stage-designer for the Armenian National Television, as well as a professor at his own alma mater Academy of Fine Arts in Yerevan.
Pogosyan has participated in numerous international exhibitions, including an Art Exhibit in Bulgaria, 1984, an exhibition of his own works in Germany, 1991, and United States, 1993 and ’95.
Since 1998, Razmik Pogosyan resides in the United States. His latest exhibit was at the ArtExpo 2000, San Francisco, November of 2000. In December of 2001, he received a nomination for an “Valley Theatre League, 8th Annual Artistic Director Achievement” Award for his set design of the comedy “Uncle Balthazar”, produced by the Armenian Theater Company.
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