Tigran Tsitoghdzyan was born in 1976 in Yerevan, Armenia. Since when he was very young he passed his days painting and drawing. He found his universe when he discovered the oil paints at the age of 5, perfecting his skills in his youth. Very soon he was noticed by Henrik Iguitian, an art critic, founder and director of Modern Art Museum and Children Art Museum in Yerevan. He organized Tigran’s first personal exhibition with one hundred works when Tigran was ten years old. The exhibition started in Yerevan, and then continued in the cities of Spain and USA. In the following years Tigran had numerous exhibitions in Armenia, Russia, West Europe and United States.
Tsitoghdzyan studied at Yerevan Academy of Fine Arts in 1999 and received a MA from Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais Artists in Switzerland in 2005. During his studies he worked as a decorator at Yerevan State Pantomime Theater and after graduating, he completed artist residencies in England and South Africa. The time and effort the Armenia-born painter, who currently lives and works in New York, has put into honing his craft has certainly paid off, allowing him to not only paint hyperrealistic renditions of people, but to peer into their souls with a few masterful layering techniques. At present the majority of his works are in private collections, galleries and museums.
