Karo Mkrtchyan
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Karo Mkrtchyan (Armenian: Կարո Մկրտչյան, 28 March 1951 – 2001) was a well-known Armenian painter and public figure. He was aligned with the avant-garde movement. An independent and freethinker, Karo fled the USSR's cultural blockade. For much of his life Karo Mkrtchyan lived and painted outside his native USSR.
Karo Mkrtchyan was born in the Banants village, Gardman Province of Artsakh, Armenia.[citation needed] In 1968 he left secondary school. Karo became a member of the Artists' Union of Armenia in 1971 and two years later, in 1973, graduated from the Yerevan State Institute of Art and Drama. In 1981 he was nominated as a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR. He graduated from the Moscow Academy of Painting in 1982. From 1996, Karo was a member of International Association of Artists UNESCO. From 1996 to 1999 he worked in Paris at the International Association of Art.[1] Karo Mkrtchyan died in Yerevan in 2001.
Expositions
- Since 1967 in Armenia
- Since 1974 in Russia
- 1980 Uzbekistan, Tashkent
- 1981 Russia, Moscow
- 1982 Japan, Tokyo
- 1982 Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia
- 1983 Bulgaria, Sofia
- 1984 Ukraine, Gurzuf
- 1984 Germany, Norway, Denmark, Hungary, Egypt, Italy, Finland
- 1985 Russia, Moscow
- 1985 Ukraine, Kiev
- 1987 Spain, Madrid
- 1989 Russia, Novosibirsk
- 1990 India, Delhi
- 1994 UAE, Dubai
- 1996 France, Paris
- 1997 UAE, Dubai and in other countries Prizes
- 1969 The First prize for “Autumn” picture, in the child group of RCP. of Transcaucasia
- 1978 State prize of Armenia in the nomination “The best work of year”
- 1983 In the International competition in Sofia, the prize "The best artist"
- 1983 YCL prize of Armenia
- 1986 The first prize awarded for painting at the international exhibition in Sofia
