Raffie Davtian

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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