Gevorg Endza Babakhanyan

"My childhood is concealed in my paintings which help me live TODAY. I love life only when I look at it through the red windows of my childhood. Every stroke of my paintbrush is a prayer to me." 

This is how Endza describes himself. As he said himself, the strokes of his paintbrush clearly show the strong influence of his life as a child. Those difficult times stir deep emotions which he bravely transfers onto canvas, without trying to "please" the eye of the beholder and aiming only at revealing the events of the past that made him the man he is today. An artist is somebody, who transfigures reality and gives us a new vision of the world which is not perceived all the time. He is able to do so because art transmits the dramas and enthusiasms of men without the normal mental structures that life forces us to build. This is what Endza gives us in every picture he shows us, the changes in his life which could be those of any of us. He places them before us, lively and genuine. Sometimes the colors and features are somber, sometimes there are bright and symphonic animated, just as our life unravels as the years go by. When we stop and look at one of Endza's works it is like looking at a mirror which holds the memory of our life, like a window we have never dared look out of. This is how Endza wants us to remember him. His works of art come into being through his meek approach to the world and his tenacity in life, his travels in Armenia, Israel and Italy. The wish to grow and achieve artistic maturity, leaving behind the things he had and made his own, and to start a journey towards "his" art, is the force behind his work.

BIOGRAPHY

1968 Was born in the village Gai, Echmiadzin, Armenia 
1985 Graduated from local primary school with academic excellence 
1985-91 Graduated from the Fine Arts University, Yerevan, Armenia 
1986-88 Served in the Soviet Army 
1990-92 Acted at Yerevan “Nork” theatre 
1992-95 Studied at the Armenian Theological Seminary, Jerusalem 
1995 Attended Art and Painting private courses in Israel 
1995 Was ordained as priest by Archbishop Torkom Manoogian, Armenian Patriarch of 
Jerusalem 
2000-05 Served as Priest in Haifa and Tel Aviv 
2003 Graduated from the Jerusalem Art Studio 
2008 Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Venice, Italy 
2010 Art director of the theater “Machanents”, Cross of Armenian Unity NGO

EXHIBITIONS

1995 Personal exhibition - Jerusalem, Israel 
1997 Personal exhibition - Amman, Jordan 
1998 Personal exhibition - Beit Hanina, Israel 
1999 Group exhibition - Armenia 
2000 Personal exhibition - Los Angeles, USA 
2000 Personal exhibition - City Hall of Jerusalem, Israel 
2000 Personal exhibition – Beit Gabriel, Israel 
2001 Personal exhibition - Bethlehem, Palestine 
2002 Personal exhibition – Montreal and Toronto, Canada 
2004 Group exhibition - Merkaz Beck, Jerusalem 
2005 Group exhibition – Yafa, Israel 
2007 Personal exhibition – Venice, Italy 
2008 Personal exhibition – Venice and Milan, Italy 
2009 Personal Exhibition – Arts Gallery of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France 
2009 Personal exhibition – Volterra, Italy 
2009 Personal exhibition – Malta 
2010 Group exhibition – Malta 
2010 Group exhibition – Yerevan, Armenia 
2011 Personal exhibition - Samara, Tolyati Russia 
2012 Personal exhibition - Vrubel Museum, Omsk, Russia 
2012 Group exhibition - Mogilev, Belarus 
2013 Personal exhibition - Krasnodar, Russia 
2014 Group exhibition - Patras, Greece 
2014 Group exhibition - Ekaterinburg, Russia 
2014 Group exhibition - Saint Petersburg, Russia 
2015 Machanents International Painting Symposium, group exhibition - Ejmiatsin, Armenia 
2015 Group exhibition - Vilnius , Litvia 
2015 Group exhibition - Moldova 
2015 Group exhibition - Saint Petersburg, Russia 
2015 Personal exhibition - Pasadena, USA 
2015 Personal exhibition - Arizona, USA 
2015 Personal exhibition - Burbank, USA 
2016 Personal exhibition - Seattle, USA 
2016 Group exhibition - United Arab Emirates 
2016 Group exhibition - Samara, Russia 
2016 Group exhibition - Moscow, Russia 
2016 Group exhibition - Tunis 
2017 Personal exhibition - Moscow, Russia 
2017 Group exhibition - The city of Rostock, Germany 
2018 Group exhibition - Russia, Krasnodar
2019 Personal exhibition – New York, USA