NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF ARCHITECTURE AND CONSTRUCTION OF ARMENIA

Art historian, Assistant

Date  of  birth,  month,  day   19.01.1983

Adress           Yerevan

Phone  +374 91 48-85-76

E – mail   goharvardyan@gmail.com

Nationality  Republic of Armenia

Education and trainings

• 2013-2014  Visiting scholar at Art History department of Tufts University, Boston, USA.
• 2007-2011 PhD, PhD theses: Soviet Armenian Modernism in 1960s and 1970s.
• 2006 First International Summer School for Art Curators New Challenges in Art, Certificate for art curator  course, Yerevan, Armenia.
• 2004-2005  Department of the History and Theory of Visual Arts Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts,Yerevan, Armenia. Master Thesis: Theory of Mirror in Surrealism.
• 2000-2004 Department of the History and Theory of Visual Arts Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts,Yerevan, Armenia.

Work experience

• 2015 present Lecturer of Art History in National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia.
• 2014 present Lecturer of Contemporary Art History in Utopiana.am, cultural organization.
• 2010 present Lecturer of History of Modern and Contemporary art in Yerevan State Academy of Fine arts.
• 2013 Curator in Dalan Art gallery, Yerevan, Armenia.
• 2013 Advisor in organization of workshops and exhibitions in Vanadzor’s schools, project of CISP (Comitato Internazionale per lo Sviluppo dei Popoli) Italian organization, Armenia.
• 2010-2013 Lecturer of Modern and Contemporary Art History and Soviet Art history in Gyumri branch of Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts.
• 2007 present Co-founder and editor of Online Art Historical Journal Revisor  www.revisor.am.
• 2005- 2010 Lab. assistant of Professors in Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts.
• 2003-2004 Teacher of  Art History in Armenian National Lyceum after Anania Shirakatsi
• 2001-2002 Teacher of History of Dance in Sofi Devoyan’s dance studio.

Academic fields, directions

Participation in projecting, scientific  research or  other  programs

• 2014  present Member The Image community.
• 2014  present Member of The Arts in Society knowledge community.
• 2014 Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation travel grant award for participation in Fifth International Conference on the Image, Free University, Berlin, Germany.
• 2013- 2014 OSF Global Faculty Grants Program Academic Sabbatical award for  fellowship in Art History department in Tufts University, Boston, USA
• 2013 OSI Assistance Foundation grant award for participation in the Summer School for FDP finalists in Istanbul, Turkey.
• 2013 “Padval” installation in “Padval Gallery. From a Guerilla to the Spy” exhibition organized by 5th Floor Cultural Group. Gyumri, Armenia.
• 2012 “Being reflected in Rustaveli” installation in exhibition of second workshop within the project “New breath of culture: fill heritage with life of arts”. Kutaisi, Georgia.
• 2012 “I am half…2012” installation in VIII Gyumri International Biennial of Contemporary Art. Gyumri, Armenia.

Publications

• 11 scientific works.

Languages

• Armenian,
• Russian,
• English,
• Italian,
• German

Latest Publications

1. A. Vardanyan “An Unexplored Modernism: The Formation of Modern Art in Soviet Armenia”, Journal of Arts and Sciences, Humanities and Social Sciences Review (Volume 03, Number 05), 2014.
2. A. Vardanyan “Activism and the transformed image of the artist in the context of the Armenian Contemporary art”, Common Ground’s Arts in Society Collection, 2014.