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RESUME
Vigen Sayadyan started drawing at the early age of three and drew for hours. Having noticed his passion and dedication towards art, Vigen's parents decided to send him to Zeytun Art School. At the art school, Vigen received his first lessons in fine arts and understood the true value and ideas of artwork. He was taught concepts of composition, design and philosophy of painting.
By the age of ten Vigen had participated in the art competition “Generations Living Together" held by United Nations offices in Yerevan, Armenia and was a contest
winner at the United Nations Population Fund in "International Poster Contest". He became silver medalist at the 10th Biennial World Children's Art Exhibition in Kanagawa, Japan. And a year later he was the winner at the 2nd International Art
Competition “Visual Artists” in Adler, Russia. Some of Vigen's works were donated to museums in Armenia, Russia and Japan.
In 2023 he was nominated 3rd place in “ Golden Time Talent “ competition in Great Britain.
After finishing school, Vigen entered Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts which he graduated with a Bachelor in Fine Arts. At the academy he studied classic painting and realistic drawings. Shortly after graduation, Vigen joined Artists Union of
Armenia where to this day is an active member.Whilst being a student, Vigen became the Laureate of The Presidential Award and considers this achievement to
be the highlight of his artist career. Since 2005, Vigen has been participating in the number of group exhibitions but finds year 2014 as the hardest and most crucial period of hisprofessional life. After painting "The Fear", mysticism became the style in which he now paints.
Vigen also participates in international exhibitions, especially in Italy, Great Britain,Belarus.
According to Vigen, mysticism is the form of art that heads over the borders of history towards the center of a human being and helps to get out of chaotic flow of random events and it captures the meaning of reality. This is how Vigen feels about the instability of the world and uncertainty of mankind; these are Vigen's mystic feelings about reality. However, Vigen’s mystic world is full of bright and lush colors that represent faith and hope for mercy and salvation.