VAROUJAN HOVAKIMYAN

Varoujan Hovakimyan was born in 1978 in Armenia's capital city, Yerevan. From 1994-99 he studied Graphic Arts at the SAFAA (State Academy of Fine Arts of Armenia) in Yerevan focusing on drawing, painting, illustration, and printmaking. In 1999 he moved to Los Angeles. For the past 22 years living in LA he had quite a few solos and numerous group exhibitions and participated in nationally and internationally acclaimed art shows and festivals in US and Armenia... Varouján Hovakimyan is a contemporary painter currently living and working in Los Angeles, CA. His abstract paintings are as alive with movement and gesture as they are brimming with ideas...