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ARTIST’S STATEMENT
My art is born at the intersection of personal memory, inner architecture, and the invisible laws that hold the world together. I grew up amidst war and forced displacement, losing my home in Nagorno-Karabakh twice — first in childhood, and again as an adult. This experience did not simply shape me; it carved out an inner space that seeks harmony in chaos, rhythm in fragmentation, and beauty in silence
Art became my first language of healing. At the age of ten, I began drawing as an instinctive attempt to make sense of reality. Later, my studies in economic cybernetics and architecture deepened my understanding of systems, structures, and mathematical balance. I began to perceive the world not only emotionally, but also through the lens of patterns — both visible and hidden.
My abstract works are visual formulas that translate emotional and spiritual experience into color, line, and composition. The Equilibrium series emerged from a meditative focus on balance during a time of inner and outer instability. In contrast, Factorials is a response to rupture — a search for inner structures of influence within a system, where form becomes a way to reimagine chaos.
As an Armenian who grew up within Ukrainian culture, I experience color not merely as a palette, but as a vibration. It carries sensory memory, a pulse of perception that weaves an inner narrative. Color often appears in my work with a raw, threshold intensity — on the edge of perception. My inner nature feels color as a wave — something the body senses before the mind begins to understand.
Each of my works is a continuation of the life I’ve lived — a bridge between destruction and creation, fear and love, past and future. I do not paint reactions; I paint inner states. Through form, I seek to name what has no name, to hold space for the invisible, and to build a home that can never again be taken away.
Gayane Arushanian
Gayane Arushanian
I was born in Nagorno-Karabakh Republic (Armenia). My family had to move to Ukraine in 1992 because of war in Nagorno-Karabakh.
Since childhood I was inspired to create something new. For a long time was working on the project of portraits "Inspire Me If You Can» (2012 – 2015).
Founder of School of Experimental Art, 2017 (Kyiv, Ukraine) and G-ART STUDIO (Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine). Working on abstract with experiments on shapes and color, using Math and exact sciences.
Based in Kyiv, Ukraine.
COLLECTIONS:
Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States of America, Canada, France, Belgium, Poland, Armenia.
EDUCATION:
2007 – 2013 – Zaporizhzhia State Engineering Academy of Ukraine "Urban construction and design"
2007 – 2012 – Zaporizhzhia State Engineering Academy of Ukraine "Economic Cybernetics"
2002 – 2008 – School of Fine Arts "Wonderful World"
SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2025 – "Where Home Begins" Solo Exhibition, Mlyn Design Hub. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2023 – "Exploring Equilibrium" Solo Exhibition, Zaporizhzhia Art & Youth Center. Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
2021 – "Equilibrium" Solo Exhibition, School of Experimental Art. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2018 – Watercolor sketches and sketches from trip to Armenia, Outlook World Culture Festival Exhibition. Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 – Immersion. Lapis Lazuli, Art Gallery “Freud House”. Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 – Immersion. Lapis Lazuli, Restaurant-Gallery "Nairi". Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
2015 – Inspire Me If You Can, Restaurant-Gallery "Nairi". Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
2014 – Inspire Me If You Can, Art Restaurant "Unknown Petrovsky". Dnipro, Ukraine
2013 – Inspire Me If You Can, Art Restaurant "Carousel". Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2023 – “Ukraine Our Home” group exhibition, St.Luke’s Church, Cambridge, GB
2023 – “Prometeusz dla Ukrainy” group exhibition, Warsaw Poland
2022 – “Ukraine Our Home” group exhibition, Nuremberg, Germany
2022 – “Ukraine Our Home” group exhibition, Kraft Art, Munich, Germany
2022 – “Ukraine Our Home” group exhibition, St.John’s College, Oxford, GB
2022 – "Invisible Costs of War" group exhibition, ARC-Gallery, Chicago, USA
2022 – "The Art of Resistance" Group Exhibition of Ukrainian Artists. Valencia, Spain
2022 – Los Angeles Art Fundraising for Ukraine. Los Angeles, CA, USA
2022 – Art Fundraising on Poetic Evening. Kyiv, Ukraine
2021 – Abstract artists of Ukraine Group Exhibition, Kyiv Ukraine
2019 – Exhibition of Young Armenian Artists "Pinacoteca". Yerevan, Armenia
2019 – participant of project “The Shadow of Dream” presented by Open Group at Venice Biennale. Venice, Italy
2017 – II Exhibition of Visual Arts, National Academy of Arts of Ukraine. Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 – NewWaveExhibition. Lviv, Ukraine
2016 – Exhibition "The September Circle", Regional Library Gorky. Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
2016 – "Axis" Group Exhibition of young contemporary artists, AkT. Kyiv, Ukraine
2016 – Armenian Artists Exhibition «The Color of Pomegranate», Zaporizhzhia Art Museum. Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
2016 – "Pinacoteca", Kharkiv Art Museum. Kharkiv, Ukraine
2016 – Young Armenian Artists Exhibition, Armenian Culture Centre. Odesa, Ukraine
2013 – Art Competition of young artists "Step to Mastery". Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
2012 – Modern Armenian Artist Exhibition "Seven Notes of Spring". Dnipro, Ukraine
AWARDS
2014 – Member of Youth Association of National Union of Artists of Ukraine;
2014 – 2nd place in the regional competition of young artists "Step to Mastery". Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
2004 – 2007 - Winner of the regional exhibition-competition "Know and love your country" (Kyiv, Ukraine).
ART RESIDENCY
2019 - Lusik Aguletsi Foundation. Yerevan, Armenia
MASS MEDIA PUBLICATIONS:
2022 - “Our Home Ukraine” Group Exhibition, cherwell-college.co.uk, Oxford, United Kingdom
2022 – “Ukraine Art Gallery: The Invisible Costs of War”, dailyherald.com. Chicago, USA.
2022 - The Invisible Costs of War, arcgallery.org. Chicago, USA.
2022 - Exhibition “Art of Resistance” Spain, algemesialdia.com, Valencia, Spain,
2022 - Cooperation with artist from Hampstead, ukrainecentral.org, London, United Kingdom
2019 - Exhibition of Young Armenian Artists "Pinacoteca" opened in Yerevan, mfa.gov.ua Kyiv,Ukraine
2018 - Zaporozhye artist Gayane Arushanyan founded the School of Experimental Art in Kyiv. Кyiv, Ukraine
2018 - Life as an experiment, Zaporizhzhia Industrial. Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
2017 - Freud House invites you to enter the abstract painting by Gayane Arushanyan, ART Ukraine. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2016 - Exhibition of Young Ukrainian Artist Armenian origin, SAMU. Kyiv, Ukraine.
2016 - Zaporizhzhya hosts first large exhibition of Armenian artists, Industrialka. Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine
2016 - An Exhibition of Armenian Artists opened in Zaporizhzhia to commemorate the victims of the 1988 earthquake, TimesNews. Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
2016 - Exhibition of Young Ukrainian Artists of Zaporizhzhia, Zaporizhzhia News. Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
2012 - New names continue to be revealed in the Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists, Industrialka. Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
2012 - Opening of the exhibition of Armenian artists and sculptors of Ukraine, AraksDnipro. Dnipro, Ukraine