Samvel Sevada

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Samvel Sevada
Born
Samvel Sevada Grigoryan

(1949-09-12) September 12, 1949 (age 71)
Leninakan, Armenian SSR, Soviet Union
NationalityArmenian
Known forPainter, photographer, poet
ChildrenArt Sevada (b. 1972)

Samvel Sevada Grigoryan (Armenian: Սամվել Սևադա Գրիգորյան; born September 12, 1949),[1] is an Armenian artist, photographer and poet.

Biography[]

Sevada was born in the city of Gyumri, Armenia. In 1974, he graduated from Yerevan's State Fine Arts and Theater Institute. Since 1980, he has been a member of the Armenian Union of Artists, and since 2009, a Member of the Armenian Union of Photographers.

From 1996 to 1998, Sevada was the general painter of Yerevan. From 1990 to 2006, he lived and worked in the USA, opening the first Armenian painting school in the US in 1990.[2] Sevada set up Sevada Art Studio in Yerevan.

Photos by Sevada have been published in many journals and magazines in the US, Canada, Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere.[3] He has had more than 32 exhibitions in the USA, Canada, Poland, Moldova, Estonia, Moscow, Tbilisi, and Yerevan.[4][5]

His son, director Art Sevada (Artak Sevada Grigorian) plans the screening of the movie on 24 April 2015,[needs update] the 100th anniversary of the start of the Armenian genocide.[6]

Awards[]

  • 1968 1st Prize. Exhibition "Erebuni-Erevan" Armenia.[7]
  • 1973 2nd Prize. Exhibition for the Prize of NP "Avangard."[citation needed]
  • 1991 Innervision'91-Westin Bonaventure. Hotel, LA, CA.[citation needed]
  • 1992 "Golden Angel", Southern California Motion Picture Council[citation needed]

Books[]

  • Alluring as death
  • Virgin Zodiac

Gallery[]

Paintings[]

  • "Blue girl"

  • "Don Quixote"

  • "Your Enamel Profile"

  • "Virgin Zodiac"

  • "Bull Zodiac"

  • "Virgins"

  • "Gregory of Narek"

Photography[]

  • "Sonatina"

  • "Arlekin"

  • "Good Morning, Ararat"

  • "The patriarch of the Armenian Stage"

  • "In the Beautiful Armenian mountains"

  • "Five pomegranate for Louiza"

  • "Autumn of the Magician"

  • "Winter Night"

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Sevada Grigoryan - The story behind Sevada's art". www.sevada.am. Retrieved January 22, 2021.
  2. ^ "PERSONAL EXHIBITION OF WORKS OF SAMVEL SEVADA KICKS OFF IN "MOSCOW" CINEMA". armenpress.am.
  3. ^ "Samvel Sevada, Photography". Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Retrieved March 31, 2014.
  4. ^ "The Exhibition Of Samvel Sevada's Works Open In Yerevan". www.armeniandiaspora.com.
  5. ^ "National Assembly of the Republic of Armenia | Official Web Site | parliament.am". www.parliament.am.
  6. ^ "The Genex: New movie on Armenian genocide to feature Hollywood stars, due for release in 2015".
  7. ^ "ARMENIAN MODERN ART-SEVADA". www.itgateway.com.

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