Mikayel Ohanjanyan

Born in 1976 in Yerevan (Armenia), Mikayel Ohanjanyan lives and works between Florence and Carrara. He received his training at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Yerevan and the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence.

Ohanjanyan has taken part in numerous major international events: in 2015 he exhibited in the Armenian National Pavilion at the 56th Venice Art Biennale, which won the prestigious Golden Lion award. In 2016, he presented two large site-specific installations for the project “La Statale Arte” at the University of Milan (La Statale). In addition, his project “Diary” was selected for Frieze Sculpture Park and exhibited in Regent’s Park, London; the work is now part of the permanent collection of the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. In 2017, he participated in the first edition of STANDART, the Armenian Contemporary Art Triennial, and in the same year some of his works were shown at FIAC – On Site, outdoors in front of the Petit Palais in Paris. In 2018, he won the E. Marinelli International Contemporary Art Prize for the Museo dell’Opera del Duomo in Florence, where his work is now part of the permanent collection. In 2021, Mikayel Ohanjanyan won the competition promoted by the Italian Episcopal Conference (CEI) / Vatican for the creation of liturgical artworks for the Church of Don Giovanni Bosco in Bagheria, Sicily. Among other awards, he has received the Targetti Light Art Award (2009) and the Henraux Prize (2014).