Alexander Boyadzhan

Painter, graphic artist, theatrical designer. Born in the family of Boris Boyadzhan in the town of Sukhumi in Abkhazia (1958). Graduated from the department of theatrical design at Tbilisi Academy of Arts (1980) and studied under Eduard Kochergin at the theatrical studio of the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad (1982–84). Worked at the Theatre of Musical Comedy in Tbilisi, Sukhumi Theatre of the Young Viewer and Qartuli Pilmi (Georgian Film Studios) in Tbilisi (1970s–80s). Member of the Union of Artists (1988), South (1990) and the International Federation of Artists (1995). Lives and works in St Petersburg (from 1990). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1982). Contributed to the Van Gogh Centennial Exhibition at the Palitra Gallery in Leningrad (1990), group exhibitions at the Municipal Art Gallery in Piraeus (1991) and the Galerie Artforum in Hanover (1992), Spring Salon at the Lenexpo Exhibition Complex in St Petersburg (1992), Van de Avantgarde aan onze Dagen in Hengelo (1995), Collection of Modern Art at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in St Petersburg (1997), Art Festival at the Kunsthaus Klüber in Weinheim (1997), La Dolce Vita at the JurArt Gallery in Helsinki (1998), group exhibitions at the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Baden-Baden (1998) and Campbell Steele Gallery in Cedar Rapids (1999), Christmas 2000 at the Palitra Gallery in St Petersburg (1999–2000), Modern Art of St Petersburg at the Kunsthal Sint-Pietersabdij in Ghent (2000), In the Beginning was the Word at St Petersburg University in St Petersburg (2001), Abstraction in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2001–02), In Search of the Lost Link at the Union of Artists in St Petersburg (2001), White Christmas at the Museum of Urban Sculpture in St Petersburg (2002), group exhibition at the DiDi Gallery in St Petersburg (2003), Traditions and Modernity at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in St Petersburg (2003), Times of Change at the Creative Union of Artists of Russia in Moscow (2003), Petersburg Festival of Galleries at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in St Petersburg (2004), A Russian Look at Italy at the St Petersburg Creative Union of Artists in St Petersburg (2004), Art Index at the Russian Museum of Ethnography in St Petersburg (2004, 2006), The Pull of the Moon at the Art Alley Gallery in St Petersburg (2005), Pictures for Christmas at the St Petersburg Creative Union of Artists in St Petersburg (2005), Miracles in a Sieve at the DiDi Gallery in St Petersburg (2005), Christmas Exhibition at the St Petersburg Creative Union of Artists in St Petersburg (2006), Winter Exhibition at the Art Alley Gallery in St Petersburg (2006), Baltic Circle at the Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Art in Kaliningrad (2006–07, Amber Drop Prize for Mastery), Petersburg Art of the Twentieth Century (Collection of Modern Art of the Manège Central Exhibition Hall) at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in St Petersburg (2007), Modern Art of Russia at the Russian Academy of Arts in Moscow (2007), Artists of the DI Magazine Circle at the Russisches Kulturinstitut in Vienna (2007), Modern Art of St Petersburg at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in Moscow (2007), Petersburg Meetings at the St Petersburg Creative Union of Artists in St Petersburg (2008), Works of the Year at the St Petersburg Creative Union of Artists in St Petersburg (2008–09, 2011–12), Contemporary Russian Art: From the Avant-Garde to the Present at the Gallery in Cork Street in London (2009), Watercolour and Drawings Fair at the Flower Cellars in London (2009), It is Not the Name, But the Painting That is Important at the Expo-88 Gallery in Moscow (2010), Twenty Years at the St Petersburg Creative Union of Artists in St Petersburg (2010), Colour of the Holiday at the DiDi Gallery in St Petersburg (2010–11), Vanilla Cloud at the DiDi Gallery in St Petersburg (2011–12) and one-man shows at the Palitra Gallery in St Petersburg (1991, 1993, 1994, 1996, 1999), Milena Gallery in St Petersburg (1992), Galerie Leo.Coppi in Berlin (1993), Galerie Tinatin in Berlin (1994), Kunsthaus Klüber in Weinheim (1996), Severnaya Stolitsa Gallery in St Petersburg (2001), Vision Gallery in Laguna Beach (2002), Aurora Gallery in Tver (2002), Asa-Art Gallery in St Petersburg (2007), SovCom Gallery in Moscow (2009), Natasha-Li Gallery in Mathildedal (2010) and Alfa-Bank in St Petersburg (2011).