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Education
MFA, Faculty of Arts & Drawing, State Pedagogical University, Yerevan, Armenia
Studio of Drawing and Painting at the Union of Architects of Armenia
Solo Exhibitions
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
Between the Lines / Project Presentation at Gallery ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Krems an der Donau, Austria
Unsteady Contours / Two-person exhibition, curated by David Komary, Gallery Kunstraum Arcade (Beethovenhaus) Mödling, In cooperation with Galerie Stadtpark & ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Lower Austria
Autumn Improvisations / Painting / Armenian Heritage Museum - Gallery, Fresno, CA, USA
Textile Sculptures, Installations in Naregatsi Art Institute,
Yerevan, Armenia
Contemporary Art Tapestry / Green Hall, National Assembly (Parliament), Yerevan, Armenia
Optical Art Tapestry / Dedicated to the World Environment Day, UN House, Yerevan, Armenia
Between Black & White... / Catalogue Presentation & Exhibition, Exlibris Museum, Moscow, RF
Between Black & White... / Project Exhibition, curated by Ruzan Sarian, Artists’ Union of Armenia
Painting, Graphic Art / Open Studio, Cite des Arts, Paris, France
Decorative Art / Exlibris Museum, Moscow, Russia
Painting on Silk and linen, RAO ”Gasprom”, Moscow, Russia
Graphic Batik / Friendship House, Moscow, Russia
Contemporary Art Tapestry / Friendship House, Moscow, Russia
Selected
Group Exhibitions
Spring Exhibition / Artists’ House, Yerevan, Armenia
International Exhibition-Competition, Tekeyan Cultural Association of Armenia, Yerevan, ARM
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
International Textile Art Exhibition, Garden of Eden, Neuhaus Castle St. Martin im Mühlkreis, Haslach, AT
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
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
Five by Five, 5th Annual Exhibition- Auction, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL USA
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
Contemporary Textile Art Biennial Contextile 2014 /
Casa da Memória, Guimarães, Portugal
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
Annual Spring Exhibition / Artists’ House, Yerevan, Armenia
VII International Biennial of Textile Miniatures Vanish / Survive, ARKA Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
Women’s Art / Artists’ House, Yerevan, Armenia
Decorative- Applied Art / Artists’ House, Yerevan, Armenia
Graphic Art / Fe Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia
Women’s Art / UN House, Yerevan, Armenia
Creative Synthesis / Charity Project Exhibition at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Armenia
Spring Exhibition / Artists’ House, Gogolevsky 10, Moscow, Russia
Artists' Charity for affected by the earthquake in Armenia, Exhibition- Auction, Vienna, Austria
Decorative- Applied Art of Armenia / Ethnography Museum, Sardarapat, Armenia
At the Crossroads of History / Central Artists’ House, Moscow, Russia
Armenian Days in Sweden / Stockholm, Gothenburg, Borlange, Sweden
Participation in more than 30 National and International Exhibitions
Professional
Experience
National Center of Aesthetics (NCA) - Fine Arts & Decorative Applied Arts Studio College, Position of Master Teacher, Yerevan
Freelance Artist: Painting, Printmaking, Textile Art
Teaching: painting, drawing, hand-weaving technology to individuals in various ages and artistic levels
Member of the Artists’ Union of Armenia
Awards / Grants
Grant from State Government of Lower Austria, Krems an der Donau, Austria
Grant from State Government of Lower Austria, Krems an der Donau
Travel Support Grant for 19th International Minitextile Exhibition “Nearby-Faraway” in Bratislava, Slovakia from the Ministry of Culture of Armenia
Travel Support Grant for Contextile - 2014, Contemporary Textile Art Biennial in Guimarães, Portugal from the Ministry of Culture of Armenia
Travel Support Grant for ETN & Creatextil (Actm) Conference in Madrid (Spain) frrom the Ministry of Culture of Armenia
The jury Diploma For Originality Embodied Thoughts from VIII International Biennial of Textile Miniatures "Thoughts - that is...", Vilnius Lithuania
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
Special Gratitude by the President of Diplomats' Spouses Association: For the cooperation And gratuitous assistance in the implementation Creative Synthesis Project, Yerevan, ARM
Diploma For Highly Artistic Works of Decorative Art from Exlibris Museum, Moscow, Russia
Award for Excellence for 1998 from the Head of the Armenian Apostolic Church in Moscow, RF
Residences
AIR-ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Niederösterreich Kunstmeile Krems, Austria
AIR-ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Niederösterreich Kunstmeile Krems, Austria
AIR-ARTIST IN RESIDENCE, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
Conferences
QUO VADIS? / 7th Riga International Triennial Conference
19th ETN (European Textile Network) Conference, Haslach, Austria
International Conference. Martiros Sarian Art Museum,Yerevan, Armenia
ETN & Creatextil (Actm) Conference / Presentation Topic: Optical Art in the Tapestry, Madrid, Spain
16th ETN (European Textile Network) Conference, Kaunas, LT
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