Zherar Digi-Art Gallery

PROFESSION - TV DIRECTOR, ARTIST, ACTOR, WRITER, TV SCENARIST, MUSICIAN

AFFILIATION- ARTISTS’ UNION OF ARMENIA

ZHIRAYR LENDRUSHOVICH AGAVELYAN (BORN DECEMBER 8, 1955, YEREVAN ) ARMENIAN TV

DIRECTOR, ARTIST, ACTOR, WRITER, TV SCENARIST, MUSICIAN, MEMBER OF ARTISTS’ UNION OF

ARMENIA (2015)

CONTENTS

1. BIOGRAPHY

2. FINE ARTS - DOCUMENTARY FILMS

2.1 DIPLOMAS

3. BOOKS

4. EXHIBITIONS

5. PRINTED NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

6. PHOTO DIRECTING-PHOTO ART GALLERY

7. ANNOTATIONS

BIOGRAPHY

ZHIRAYR AGAVELYAN WAS BORN IN 1955 IN YEREVAN, ARMENIA. IN 1972 HE GRADUATED FROM

HAGOP PARONIAN SCHOOL #59 IN YEREVAN. 1973-1977 STUDIED AND GRADUATED FROM

ECHMIADZIN COLLEGE TV DEPARTMENT IN ARMENIA. 1975-1977 SERVED IN THE ARMY(GERMANY) .

1977- 1980 GRADUATED FROM “ARMENFILM” STUDIO , WITH THE QUALIFICATION OF ACTOR FOR TV

AND THEATRE. 1977-1991 HE WORKED AS A TV DIRECTOR IN THE ARMENIAN STATE TV IN YEREVAN.

1984-1989 STUDIED AND GRADUATED FROM LENINGRAD CULTURE INSTITUTE TV DEPARTMENT IN

RUSSIA. IN 1991 LEFT FOR UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. IN 2012 HE RETURNED ARMENIA. FROM 2009

HE BEGAN WORKING WITH PHOTO ART. HE HELD NUMEROUS EXHIBITIONS IN ARMENIA AND OUTSIDE

COUNTRY.

“BECAUSE BY PROFESSION I AM A TV DIRECTOR, I DECIDED TO TRANSFORM PHOTO INTO MOVEMENT

AND GIVE IT ALSO SPIRITUAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL LIFE. IT BECAME BEGINNING AND COLOUR

SEARCH, WHICH WAS CALLED PHOTO DIRECTING. LATER ON THE INNER INSTINCT OPENED A NEW

ROAD TO PHOTO ART.”

FINE ARTS- DOCUMENTARY FILMS

ZHIRAYR AGAVELYAN IS AUTHOR OF SEVERAL FILMS

 “VARDANANK” (1984)

 “SYMPHONY OF STONES” (1987)

 “LAVASH” (1988)

 “WHO IS HE? EDWARD GHAZARYAN” (1988)

 “AFLAMED WITH POMEGRANATE BRANCHES” (1989)

 “ETERNAL TRAVELER” (1989)

 “GIVE FORGIVENESS TO MY SINS”(1990)

 “ARMENIAN STRUGGLE” (1993, USA )

DIPLOMAS

 INTER- REPUBLICAN FESTIVAL , “SYMPHONY OF STONES” 1987, VILNIUS, LITHUANIA

 FILM FESTIVAL DZIGI VERTOVA , “LAVASH” 1988 , LENINGRAD, RUSSIA

 WHITE NIGHTS, 1988, ”WHO IS HE? EDWARD GHAZARYAN” 1988, LENINGRAD, RUSSIA

 “ARMENIAN STRUGGLE” , HOMETOWN VIDEO FESTIVAL WINNER, 1993, BOSTON, USA

 DIPLOMA FOR “NEW APPROACH ESTABLISHED IN PHOTO ART”, TAVUSH REGION,

2015,ARMENIA

BOOKS

PRINTED THREE BOOKS - ”TAKE ME INTO YOUR PALM”(GASPRINT PUBLICATION , 2012, ARMENIA)

“MINIATURES OF THOUGHT” (PHYLOSOPHICAL APHORISMS, YEREVAN AUTHORITY PUBLICATION ,

2013, ARMENIA)

“THREE AGES” (BIOGRAPHICAL NOVEL WITH PHOTO ART PICTURES, “LUSAKN “PUBLICATION , 2015,

ARMENIA)

EXHIBITIONS

 “99 PLEASANT” DEDICATED ARMENIA’S 20 th ANNIVERSARY OF INDIPENDANCE, NAREKATSI ART

CENTER, YEREVAN, ARMENIA, 2011

 “TODAY I HAVE A PURE SOUL” TEKEYAN CULTURAL CENTER, YEREVAN, ARMENIA, 2012

 “TAKE ME INTO YOUR PALM”, NAREKATSI ART CENTER, YEREVAN, ARMENIA, 2012

 NAREKATSI ART CENTER, YEREVAN, ARMENIA, 2013

 YEREVAN STATE UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF PSYCHOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY 50 TH ANNIVERSARY,

YEREVAN, ARMENIA, 2014

 “FOLLOWING TRACES OF DESTINY ” TEKEYAN CULTURAL CENTER, YEREVAN, ARMENIA, 2015

 “RETURN” TEKEYAN CULTURAL CENTER, YEREVAN, ARMENIA, 2015

 “NEW STYLE IN ART”, IJEVAN , ARMENIA, 2015

 “REBIRTH”, ARTISTS’ UNION OF ARMENIA , YEREVAN, 2016

 “ROOTS”, KAPAN, ARMENIA, GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM, 2016

 “CREATION” , ARMENIAN STATE NATURE MUSEUM, YEREVAN, 2016

PRINTED NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

 VOICE OF MOTHERLAND, “ SYMPHONY OF KOMITAS” , 1989, YEREVAN, ARMENIA

 SOVIET ARMENIA NEWSPAPER, “ETERNAL TRAVELER”, 1989, YEREVAN, ARMENIA

 EKRAN No. 6-1990, “DEDICATOR”, YEREVAN, ARMENIA

 NASHA ZABOTA, 2009, “ABOUT A WONDERFUL FILM”, BOSTON, USA

 MITK No 34-2011, “99 PLEASANT”, YEREVAN, ARMENIA

 CONTACT No. 159-2011, EXHIBITION IN “ZABOTA” , BOSTON, USA

 CONTACT No. 162-2011, “IN OUR ZABOTA, MAY 9TH”, BOSTON, USA

 ARAVOT No. 182/4029/,2011. “HOW TO TURN REALITY INTO ART”, YEREVAN, ARMENIA

 CONTACT No. 171-2012, “OTHER LIFE OF PHOTO ART”, BOSTON, USA

 BOSTON, No.263-2012, “CENTER MAKOR PHOTO ART”, USA

 MIRROR SPECTATOR 6, EXHIBIT PHOTO COLLAGE, BOSTON, USA

 HAYRENIK No. 133-2012, PHOTO ART, BOSTON, USA

 ARMENIAN REPUBLIC No. 188-2012. “COLOUR OF YEARNING”, YEREVAN, ARMENIA

 KANCH No. 13-2012. “PHOTO ARTIST GIVES LESSON”, YEREVAN, ARMENIA

 CONTACT, No.155-2012, “ALL FAMILIAR FACES”, BOSTON, USA

 GRASHKHARH, 4-6/67-69/2013”TAKE ME INTO YOUR PALM”, YEREVAN, ARMENIA

 IRATES No. 21 602-2015, “INNOCENT AS A CHILD, DREAMER AS A YOUNG MAN, WISE AS AN OLD

MAN”, YEREVAN, ARMENIA

 UNWRITTEN LAWS No. 1-2015, “FOLLOWED ONE, VIOLATED THREE”, YEREVAN, ARMENIA

 ARMENIAN REPUBLIC No. 46/60 92/2015 “SOUL TALES WITH CRY OF THE ROOTS ”, YEREVAN,

ARMENIA

 ARAVOT, No.213/5056/2015, ZHIRAYR AGAVELYAN, “TO PAINT BEAUTIFULLY, DOES NOT MEAN

GIVE BREATH TO PICTURES”, YEREVAN, ARMENIA

 IJEVAN No. 666-2015, “COLOURFUL PLAY THAT WAKENS HUMAN IMAGINATION”,YEREVAN,

ARMENIA

 TSOLKER, No. 3/42/ “FOR ME THERE IS AN INCENSING FOR SOUL, FAITH, LOVE”. 2015

YEREVAN, ARMENIA

 EKONOMIKA No. 31-2016 “THE REALITY OF BOOMERANG”, YEREVAN, ARMENIA

 SYUNATS YERKIR No. 36/412/2016, “ROOTS” AND “ LIBRARIAN DAY IN CITY HALL”, KAPAN,

ARMENIA

 IRATES No. 63/720/-2016, “BREATHING PHOTOS”, YEREVAN, ARMENIA

 AZG No. 6/258/2016, “SENSUAL FIELD OF COLOURS AND WORDS”,YEREVAN, ARMENIA

ANNOTATIONS

1. “ I SEE MY COUNTRY IN THE RAYS OF SUN…”, ZHIRAYR AGAVELYAN” : HAYERN AYSOR: 2016-03-

18: IS TAKEN 2016-10-21,YEREVAN, ARMENIA

2. “NEW STYLE IN ART- “WOVEN WITH TENDER FEELINGS”TAVUSH.AGRO.AM: IS TAKEN 2016-10-

21, YEREVAN, ARMENIA

3. “I WAS MADE BY MY COUNTRY’S NATURE, AND I MADE THAT IN MY PICTURES”

–ANKAKH.COM”:

ANKAKH.COM: IS TAKEN 2016-10-21, YEREVAN, ARMENIA

4. “MOVEMENT OF AN INSTANT”- HAYELI.AM: IS TAKEN 2016-10-21,YEREVAN, ARMENIA

5. MEDIAMAX: “99 PLEASANT”- BRAVO.AM : IS TAKEN 2016-10-21,YEREVAN, ARMENIA

6. “SOUL NEEDS HELP”, ZHIRAYR AGAVELYAN –ARAVOT -NEWS FROM ARMENIA”,:

IS TAKEN 2016-10-21