Marina Mamyan

CV

Education

1981

MFA, Faculty of Arts & Drawing, State Pedagogical University, Yerevan, Armenia

1975 - 1977

Studio of Drawing and Painting at the Union of Architects of Armenia

Solo Exhibitions

2025

Tapestry Light / curated by Varoujan Der Simonian, Armenian Museum-Gallery of Fresno, CA

Exhibition and meet with the Artist at Gallery on Fulton - Helm Building, Fresno, CA, USA

2023

Between the Lines / Project Presentation at Gallery ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Krems an der Donau, Austria

2020

Unsteady Contours / Two-person exhibition, curated by David Komary, Gallery Kunstraum Arcade (Beethovenhaus) Mödling, In cooperation with Galerie Stadtpark & ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Lower Austria

2016

Autumn Improvisations / Painting / Armenian Heritage Museum - Gallery, Fresno, CA, USA

2015

Textile Sculptures, Installations in Naregatsi Art Institute,
Yerevan, Armenia

2012

Contemporary Art Tapestry / Green Hall, National Assembly (Parliament), Yerevan, Armenia

2011

Optical Art Tapestry / Dedicated to the World Environment Day, UN House, Yerevan, Armenia

2010

Between Black & White... / Catalogue Presentation & Exhibition, Exlibris Museum, Moscow, RF

Between Black & White... / Project Exhibition, curated by Ruzan Sarian, Artists’ Union of Armenia

2008

Painting, Graphic Art / Open Studio, Cite des Arts, Paris, France

2002

Decorative Art / Exlibris Museum, Moscow, Russia

1998

Painting on Silk and linen, RAO ”Gasprom”, Moscow, Russia

1996

Graphic Batik / Friendship House, Moscow, Russia

1994

Contemporary Art Tapestry / Friendship House, Moscow, Russia

Selected
Group Exhibitions

2025

Spring Exhibition / Artists’ House, Yerevan, Armenia

2024

International Exhibition-Competition, Tekeyan Cultural Association of Armenia, Yerevan, ARM

2023

7th Riga International Triennial of Textile and Fiber Art,
QUO VADIS? National Art Museum (Riga Bourse), Latvia

Group Exhibition at Gallery ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Krems, Austria

2019

International Textile Art Exhibition, Garden of Eden, Neuhaus Castle St. Martin im Mühlkreis, Haslach, AT

2018

II International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Cartography of Cultures, curated by Isabel Patin, Ponte de Lima, Portugal

Photography, Loosen Art Collection Gallery Project / Millepiani Space, Rome, Italy

2017

International Contemporary Art Exhibition Lethes Art,
Memory & Identiti(es) / Ponte de Lima, Portugal

19th International Minitextile Exhibition, Nearby-Faraway / Umelka Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia

Annual Spring Exhibition / Artists’ House, Yerevan, Armenia

2016

Five by Five, 5th Annual Exhibition- Auction, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL USA

2015

Five by Five, 4th Exhibition- Auction, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, Florida, USA

ArtCards to Connect, Charity Exhibition, TENRI Gallery at Manhattan, New York, USA

Out of the Box, Janina Monkute-Marks Museum - Gallery, Kedainiai, Lithuania

IX International Biennial of Textile Miniatures, Out of the Box / ARKA Gallery, Vilnius, LT

XVIII MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL ART SALON CHA-2015
People and the World / Central Artist’s House, Moscow, RF

Women’s Art, Annual Spring Exhibition / Artist’s Union of Armenia

2014

Contemporary Textile Art Biennial Contextile 2014 /
Casa da Memória, Guimarães, Portugal

2013

National Exhibition of One Work / Artists’ Union of Armenia

VIII International Biennial of Textile Miniatures,
Thoughts - that is... / ARKA Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania

Thoughts - that is.../ VDA (a branch of Vilnius Art Academy) Gallery, Telsiai, Lithuania

2012

Annual Spring Exhibition / Artists’ House, Yerevan, Armenia

2011

VII International Biennial of Textile Miniatures Vanish / Survive, ARKA Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania

2009

Women’s Art / Artists’ House, Yerevan, Armenia

2008

Decorative- Applied Art / Artists’ House, Yerevan, Armenia

2007

Graphic Art / Fe Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia

2006

Women’s Art / UN House, Yerevan, Armenia

2005

Creative Synthesis / Charity Project Exhibition at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia

1996

Spring Exhibition / Artists’ House, Gogolevsky 10, Moscow, Russia

1990

Artists' Charity for affected by the earthquake in Armenia, Exhibition- Auction, Vienna, Austria

1989

Decorative- Applied Art of Armenia / Ethnography Museum, Sardarapat, Armenia

1988

At the Crossroads of History / Central Artists’ House, Moscow, Russia

1987

Armenian Days in Sweden / Stockholm, Gothenburg, Borlange, Sweden

1982 - 1999

Participation in more than 30 National and International Exhibitions

Professional
Experience

1984 – 1999

National Center of Aesthetics (NCA) - Fine Arts & Decorative Applied Arts Studio College, Position of Master Teacher, Yerevan

Since 1999

Freelance Artist: Painting, Printmaking, Textile Art

2000 - 2020

Teaching: painting, drawing, hand-weaving technology to individuals in various ages and artistic levels

Since 1988

Member of the Artists’ Union of Armenia

Awards / Grants

2023

Grant from State Government of Lower Austria, Krems an der Donau, Austria

2020

Grant from State Government of Lower Austria, Krems an der Donau

2017

Travel Support Grant for 19th International Minitextile Exhibition “Nearby-Faraway” in Bratislava, Slovakia from the Ministry of Culture of Armenia

2014

Travel Support Grant for Contextile - 2014, Contemporary Textile Art Biennial in Guimarães, Portugal from the Ministry of Culture of Armenia

2013

Travel Support Grant for ETN & Creatextil (Actm) Conference in Madrid (Spain) frrom the Ministry of Culture of Armenia

2013

The jury Diploma For Originality Embodied Thoughts from VIII International Biennial of Textile Miniatures "Thoughts - that is...", Vilnius Lithuania

2011

Travel Support Grant for VII International Biennial of Textile Miniatures in Vilnius and 16 th ETN Conference in Kaunas, LT, from the Ministry of Culture of Armenia

2005

Special Gratitude by the President of Diplomats' Spouses Association: For the cooperation And gratuitous assistance in the implementation Creative Synthesis Project, Yerevan, ARM

2002

Diploma For Highly Artistic Works of Decorative Art from Exlibris Museum, Moscow, Russia

1999

Award for Excellence for 1998 from the Head of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Moscow, RF

Residences

2023 / February

AIR-ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Niederösterreich Kunstmeile Krems, Austria

2020 / Feb - Mar

AIR-ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Niederösterreich Kunstmeile Krems, Austria

2008 / Jul - Aug

AIR-ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France

Conferences

2023

QUO VADIS? / 7th Riga International Triennial Conference

2019

19th ETN (European Textile Network) Conference, Haslach, Austria

2017

International Conference. Martiros Sarian Art Museum,Yerevan, Armenia

2013

ETN & Creatextil (Actm) Conference / Presentation Topic: Optical Art in the Tapestry, Madrid, Spain

2011

16th ETN (European Textile Network) Conference, Kaunas, LT

2010

Participation in the events of the 20th Miniartextil, by the Italian Cultural Associatio Arte&Arte, Como, Italy

Work in Public
Collections

Collection of the Ministry of Culture of Armenia

Art Foundation of Armenia

National Ethnographic Museum - permanent exposition, Sardarapat, Armenia

Armenian Heritage Museum, Fresno, CA, USA

Museum Collection LETHES ART of the Municipality of Ponte de Lima, Portugal

Works
in Catalogs

QUO VADIS? 7th Riga International Textile and Fiber Art Triennial / Catalog published by the Latvian National Museum of Art, 2023. ISBN 978-9934-538-46-9

UNSTEADY CONTOURS Two-person exhibition, text by David Komary / Catalog published by AIR - artist in residence Lower Austria in cooperation with the Kunstraumarcade, 2020

GARDEN OF EDEN / Textile Art at Castle Neuhaus, St. Martin im Mühlkreis, Haslach, Austria. Catalog released by Textile Kultur Haslach, 2019. ISBN 978-3-9502564-7-5

International Contemporary Art Exhibition Lethes Art Cartography of Cultures / Catalog released by the Municipality of Ponte de Lima, Portugal, 2018. ISBN 978-972-8846-72-5

International Contemporary Art Exhibition Lethes Art Memory & Identiti(es), Catalog released by the Municipality of Ponte de Lima, Portugal, 2017. ISBN 978-972-8846-66-4

19th International Minitextile Exhibition “Nearby-Faraway” / Catalog edited by Slovak Textile Artists Association TXT, 2017

IX INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL of Textile Miniatures “Out of the Box” / Vilnius, LT. 2015

XVIII MOSCOW INTERNATIONAL ART SALON “CHA-2015. People and the World” /Catalogue by International Confederation Unions of Artists, Moscow, Russia. 2015

CONTEXTILE 2014 - Contemporary Textile Art Biennial, Guimarães, Portugal / Catalog released by Ideias Emergentes Producao Cultural, CRL. ISBN 978-989-96552-2-5

NATIONAL Exhibition- Competition of ONE WORK / Catalogue published Artists’ Union of Armenia

VIII INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL of Textile Miniatures "Thoughts - that is..." / Vilnius, LT. 2013

VII INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL of Textile Miniatures “Vanish / Survive” / Vilnius, LT. 2011

BETWEEN BLACK & WHITE Solo Project Exhibition / Catalog published by Marina Mamyan, Text by Ruzan Sarian, 2010. ISBN: 978-9939-53-638-5

ARMENIAN ARTISTS Devoted to the 75th anniversary of Artists` Union of Armenia. 2007

CREATIVE SYNTHESIS Charity Exhibition, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia, published by UNDP and Swedish International Development Agency. 2005

CONTEMPORARY ART Devoted to the 70th anniversary of Artists` Union of Armenia. 2002

Selected Press

THE CALIFORNIA COURIER Newspaper / Los Angeles, CA, August 4, 2025

ASBAREZ Newspaper / “Tapestry of Light’: An Interview with Acclaimed Contemporary Artist Marina Mamyan”, by Varoujan Der Simonyan, CA,US, September 8, 2025

MIRROR SPECTATOR> Newspaper / Los Angeles, CA, August 16, 2025

KUNSTNET ÖSTERREICH UNSTEADY CONTOURS, Text by David Komary, Austria 2020

NOR GLADZOR Newspaper / Immensity of time and thought, Interview by Nona Paytyan, November 2013

TEXTILE FORUM German Magazine, December 2013

LITERATURA & ART Lithuanian Magazine / Making your mind work, by Lijana Šatavičiūtė, 26 July 2013

TEXERE Magazine, CREATEXTIL 2013 REPORT by Lala de Dios, Spain, Summer 2013

DESIGN DELUXE Magazine, World in Tapestries, Text by Goar Harutyunyan, April 2012

ANKAKH Weekly Newspaper, Exhibition of Marina Mamyan in National Assembly, 20 March 2012

Aysor.am 20 March 2012, Report.am, 20 March 2012

ARMENIAN WOMEN Magazine, published by Artists` Union of Armenia, 2010

ARVEST Newspaper / Immensity of time and thought, Interview by Nona Paytyan, November 2013

ARAVOT Newspaper, The Artist, who is free in creation, 18 May 2010

IDEFACTO Newspaper, Invisible Transitions, Interview by Vrezh Arakelyan, June 11-14 2010

HRAPARAK Newspaper, Between Black & White, 1 june 2010

NOVOE VREMYA Newspaper, Textile Dreams of Marina Mamyan. Text by Karen Micaelyan, 3 June 2010

GOLOS ARMENII Newspaper, Filled with Sun Tapestries by Marina Mamyan, Text by Marina Stepanyan, 3 June 2010

RUSSKAYA MISL French Newspaper / Ad of Exhibition in Cité Internationale des Arts Paris, 1-7 August 2008