Samvel Sevada

Samvel Sevada (Armenian: Սամվել Սևադա, born September 12, 1949), is an Armenian artist, photographer and poet.

Samvel Sevada
Born
Samvel Grigoryan

(1949-09-12) September 12, 1949
Gyumri, Armenia
NationalityArmenian
Known forPainter, photographer, 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 General painter of Yerevan. From 1989 to 2006 he lived and worked in the USA, opening the first Armenian painting school in the US in 1990.[1] 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.[2] He has had more than 32 exhibitions in the USA, Canada, Poland, Moldova, Estonia, Moscow, Tbilisi, and Yerevan.[3][4]

His son, Armenian director Art Sevada (Artak Sevada) plans the screening of the movie The Genex on 24 April 2015, the 100th anniversary of the start of the Armenian Genocide.[5]

Awards
  • 1968 1st Prize. Exhibition "Erebuni-Erevan" Armenia.[6]
  • 1973 2nd Prize. Exhibition for the Prize of NP "Avangard."
  • 1991 Innervision'91-Westin Bonaventure. Hotel, LA, CA.
  • 1992 "Golden Angel", Southern California Motion Picture Council

Books
  • Alluring as death
  • Virgin Zodiac

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. Personal Exhibition of Works of Samvel Sevada
  2. "Samvel Sevada, Photography". Archived from the original on April 7, 2014. Retrieved March 31, 2014.
  3. The Exhibition of Samvel Sevada's works open in Yerevan
  4. Exhibition in the National Assembly
  5. The Genex: New movie on Armenian genocide to feature Hollywood stars, due for release in 2015
  6. Samvel Sevada, Palpitation of Soul
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