Pharaoh
Mikhailovich Mirzoyan

Armenia • Yerevan • born in 1949 • artist
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Born in with. Salvard of the Syunik region (Armenia) December 2, 1949.
1968 - 1969 - Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute named after A.I. Herzen.
1969 - 1975 - Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.E. Repin. Diploma
1975 teaches at the State Academy of Arts of Armenia (formerly Yerevan State Art and Theater Institute).
1989 - 2002 Head of the Department of Painting and Head of Creative Workshops of Yerevan State Art and Theater Institute.
1976 - Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR.
1977 - 1979 - Fellow of the Union of Artists of the USSR.
1986 - awarded the medal "For Labor Valor".
1995 - awarded the title of professor.
2002–2014 - Director of the National Gallery of Armenia.
2005 - awarded the title "Honorary Citizen of Sisian."
2005 - awarded the Gold Medal of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Armenia.
2005 - awarded the Axel Bakunts commemorative medal.
2006 - awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Republic of Armenia.
2006 - elected full member of the Petrovsky Academy of Sciences and Arts.
2007 - Laureate of the State Prize of the Republic of Armenia.
2008 - awarded the title of Knight of the Order of Arts and Literature, France.
2009 - awarded the Gold Medal of the Fridtjof Nansen Foundation.
2014 - awarded the title of People's Artist of the Republic of Armenia.
2014 - 2017 Head of the Department of Fine Arts of the Armenian State Pedagogical University after Kh. Abovyan.
2015 - awarded the title of honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts.
2015 - awarded the medal "Grigor Narekatsi".
2016 - Laureate of the Tekeyan Cultural Union Prize.
Since 2017 - head of the department of painting and drawing, head of creative workshops of the State Academy of Arts of Armenia.
2018 - awarded the Hakob Megapart Medal.
The works of Pharaoh Mirzoyan are in the collections of museums in Armenia, Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, as well as in private collections in Armenia, USA, Spain, India, Syria, Poland, Lithuania.
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