Raffie Davtian
Public Activity
Art and Cultural Studies Laboratory, NGO, co-founder , Yerevan, Armenia.
Solo Exhibitions
Subjects-Objects Histories and their Histories (installation) Proekt_Fabrika ,Moscow,Russia.
June 2009 Curator Susanna Gyulamiryan.
Human Doors (installation). Art and Cultural Studies Laboratory, Avant-garde Folk Music Club,
Yerevan, Armenia. November, 2007. Curator: Susanna Gyulamiryan.
We Can Doooo It. French Open Area, Yerevan, Armenia. June, 2008.
Journey trough Dance (photography), Yerevan, Armenia. Gevorgyan Gallery October, 2004.
Curator: Lusineh Ghulyan.
Group Exhibitions
Second Annual Sculpture Expo Tehran, Iran July 19, 2011
The Possibility of the Angel (installation) 10th Sharjah Biennial 2011- U.A.E .Sharjah
May 2011 project curator:Susanna Gyulamiryan.
Sharjah 10th ‘Plot for a Biennial’ Curators: Suzanne Cotter and Rash Salti In association with Haig Aivazian.
Fragile Safety. Performance Art with Susu Shuling Shih (Taiwan), Yerevan, Armenia.
December, 2008.
The Last Supper Menu. Diagnosis/Interdiagnosis. The International Forum on Contemporary Art
(Art and Cultural Studies laboratory). The Artists Union, Yerevan, Armenia. November, 2008.
Curator: Susanna Gyulamiryan.
Human Doors. Re-thinking the Past and the Present (Art and Cultural Studies laboratory).
Transformation of History or Parallel Histories. 6. Gyumri Biennale, Armenia. September, 2008.
Curator: Susanna Gylamirjan.
Inter-est. MIR festival, Athens, Greece. September, 2008. director/ program curator:
Christiana Galanopoulou.
Look Back to Rive Gauche (photos). Portrait in Between Modernism & Innovation, Armenian
Center for Contemporary and Experimental Art (ACCEA) ,Yerevan, Armenia. July, 2008.
Curator: Arevik Arevshatyan.
After You Sir (installation, performance). Empty Signs, Armenian Center for Contemporary and
Experimental Art (ACCEA), Yerevan, Armenia. May, 2008. Sonia Balassanian/Edwad
Tadevosyan.
We Can Doooo It (video). Gender trouble, International exhibition (Art and Cultural Studies
Laboratory), Gallery “Akademia”, Yerevan, Armenia. April, 2008. Curator: Susanna
Gyulamiryan.
Inter-est (video), Hun Gallery International - 2008 , New York ,U.S.A. Juried fine art exhibition.
February, 2008.
Inter-est (video),One minute-one shot, Annual Festival, Armenian Center for Contemporary and
Experimental Art (ACCEA),Yerevan, Armenia. May, 2006. Curator: Gagik Ghazareh
Entitle (photo series), International Youth Festival of Art, The center of Art and Culture,
March,2005, Batumi, Georgia, Curator: Zaza Pirtskhalashvili.
Overcame Tragedy (drawing and photo collage). Society-Body-Art, Armenian Center for
Contemporary and experimental Art (ACCEA), Yerevan, Armenia. May, 2005. Arthur…
European Astronomy (installation). Euro-Renovation, Armenian Center for Contemporary and
Experimental Art (ACCEA), Yerevan, Armenia. September, 2005. Curator: Susanna
Gyulamiryan.
The Ten Commandments (photography). Venice Biennale (Yerevan preliminary stage), Yerevan,
Armenia, December, 2004.
Untitled (photography). 4.International Gyumri Biennale, Gyumri, Armenia. August, 2004.
Alternative Phenotypes (photography). Venice Biennale (Yerevan preliminary stage), Yerevan,
Armenia. December, 2002.
King and Queen (sculpture. “Karoughi” (Crossroad) Group of Young Sculptures, Chamber
Theatre exhibition hall, Yerevan, Armenia, 1998.
Artist public presentations
Gender Trouble. Platforms A.C.S.L May 2009 Yerevan, Armenia
Film Festivals
We Can Dooo It. The 13th Boston Turkish Festival. Documentary and Short Films Competition.
December, 2008.
We Can Doooo It. The Konstanz kurz. film Festival.spiele_1.5, Germany. November 2008.
Awards
2005 – International Photography Awards, New York, USA.
Nomination of Honorable Mention for the photo series
2004 – International Photography Awards, New York, USA
Third Place Prize.
CATALOGUES\BOOKS
HUMAN DOORS first edition 2007 second edition 2009
ARTICLES/REVIWS
Vartan Jaloyan, “How to tell women stores?,” 2008
Susanna Gyulamiryan, “All others,” CINEMART No,1 2008 Armenia
Susanna Gyulamiryan, “HUMAN DOORES,”EL Style No,10-36 2008 Armenia
Karen Hakopyan, “UNTITLED… ,AFISHA ,No.3-2006 Armenia