Mr. Mkrtich Papoyan was born on September 4, 1956 in Yerevan, Armenia. He graduated from the Chisinau Academy of Fine Art, Moldova in 1976 and the Department of Painting Art of the ILYA REPIN ACADEMY of Leningrad (Saint Petersburg, Russia), in 1980.
Membership
- Artists' Union of Armenia - since 1991
- Artists' Union of Russia - since 2002
- International Armenian Artists’ Union - since 2009
- Artists’ Union of Greece - since 2010
Major works and exhibitions
Mr. Mkrtich Papoyan’s works are kept at the National Gallery of Armenia, National Art Gallery of Montana (United States), Russian, Austrian and French galleries, and in different private collections in the United States, Canada, Russia, Germany, France, Austria and Holland. He had held individual exhibitions, as well as taken part in different group exhibitions.
- OUR CONTEMPORARY, All-Union exhibition, Moscow, Russia - 1983
- INTERIOR AND STILL NATURE, Leningrad, Russia - 1988
- Group exhibition, Chisinau, Moldova - 1990
- GALERIE VENDOME, exhibition, Paris, France - 1991
- Exhibition, Tartu, Estonia - 1994
- Group Exhibition, Artists’ Union of Armenia, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia - 1995
- Exhibition, Berlin, Germany - 1996
- International Fine Art Fair, Art Manege, Moscow, Russia - 1998
- Autumn exhibition, Artists’ Union of Armenia, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia - 2000
- MY LOVE - ARMENIA, group exhibition, Artists’ Union of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia - 2001
- Individual exhibition, Ingolstadt, Free State of Bavaria, Germany - 2001
- Women for Peace, UN Office, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia - 2002
- ARARAT THROUGH THE EYES OF ARMENIAN ARTISTS, Artists Union of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia - 2002
- Autumn exhibition, Artists’ Union of Armenia, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia - 2003
- LIVING COLORS, Dresden, Germany - 2004
- Group exhibition, Artists’ Union of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia - 2004
- Spring exhibition, Artists’ Union of Armenia, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia - 2006
- Republican exhibition dedicated to the 75th anniversary of the Artists’ Union of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia - 2008
- Exhibition dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the Genocide, Yerevan, Armenia - 2010
- Exhibition dedicated to King Tigranes the Great’s 2150th birth anniversary, Academia Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia - 2010
- Exhibition dedicated to the 1050th anniversary of Ani, Academia Gallery, Armenia - 2011
- Exhibition dedicated to Fridtjof Nansen’s 150th birth anniversary, Yerevan, Armenia - 2011
- Exhibition dedicated to Garegin Nzdeh’s 125th birth anniversary, Academia Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia - 2011
- Exhbition dedicated to the 1650th birthday jubilee of Mesrop Mashtots, the inventor of the Armenian alphabet, Academia Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia - 2012
- Individual exhibition, GALERIE DU DAUPHIN, Honfleur, France - 2013
- Exhbitition dedicated to Sayat Nova’s 300th birth jubilee, Academia Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia - 2013
- Exhibition dedicated to the 150th birth anniversary of Andranik Ozanyan (Zoravar Andranik), a prominent Armenian military leader and commander (1865-1927), donation, National Art Gallery, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia - 2016
- Recipient of acknowledgement awards and prizes honoring his participation in different organizations; awarded also with the gold medal ZORAVAR ANDRANIK
- Author of different printed works published in the catalogues of Artists’ Union of Armenia (2002, 2004, 2007 and 2012)
