Mariam Hakobyan

Education and career

Hakobyan graduated from the Yerevan State Institute of Fine Arts in 1974, and completed her undergraduate work at the Panos Terlemezian Fine Arts College in 1968. She has been a member of the Artists' Union of Armenia since 1979, and served as a secretary of the Sculpture Section for many years. She is the founder of “NorEon” Creative Center which promotes the Armenian visual arts throughout the world and assists Armenian artists in their professional careers.

Hakobyan was a member of the faculty at the Roslyn Fine Arts Institute from 1993 to 1997, and devoted many years to working with the youth at the Children's Center for Aesthetic Education and Schoolchildren's Recreation Center in Yerevan (1976–1990).

During her career, Hakobyan has participated in numerous exhibitions, sculpture symposia, festivals, and biennales both in Armenia and abroad. Her minor sculptures and graphics are held in many state and private galleries and museums, while monumental sculptures can be found throughout the world. Hakobyan has received many awards and prizes including the International Mon-Art Prize of Florence (Italy, 1998), Third Prize at the International Festival of Ice Sculpture (Russia, 2004), Second Prize at the competition “Stone-Monument” (China, 2001), Third Prize at the International Sculpture Symposium (Lithuania, 2003), Bronze medal at the 12th International Biennale dedicated to Dante's "Divine Comedy" (Italy, 1996). Her monument "Faith", dedicated to the 1700th anniversary of the adoption of Christianity as a state religion in Armenia was commissioned by the Armenian community of Vienna and now stands at the Armenian square adjacent to Vienna’s Armenian Apostolic Church.

Exhibitions

Hakobyan participated in hundreds of exhibitions over her career, including:

Solo exhibitions