Samvel Sevada

Samvel Sevada (, born September 12, 1949), is an Armenian artist, photographer and poet.

Biography

Sevada was born in the city of Gyumri, Armenia. In 1974 he graduated from Yerevan's State Fine Arts and Theater Institute. Since 1980 he has been a member of the Armenian Union of Artists, and since 2009 a Member of the Armenian Union of Photographers.

From 1996 to 1998 Sevada was General painter of Yerevan. From 1989 to 2006 he lived and worked in the USA, opening the first Armenian painting school in the US in 1990. Sevada set up Sevada Art Studio in Yerevan.

Photos by Sevada have been published in many journals and magazines in the US, Canada, Russia, Ukraine and elsewhere. He has had more than 32 exhibitions in the USA, Canada, Poland, Moldova, Estonia, Moscow, Tbilisi, and Yerevan.

His son, Armenian director Art Sevada (Artak Sevada) plans the screening of the movie The Genex on 24 April 2015, the 100th anniversary of the start of the Armenian Genocide.

Awards
1968 1st Prize. Exhibition "Erebuni-Erevan" Armenia.
1973 2nd Prize. Exhibition for the Prize of NP "Avangard."
1991 Innervision'91-Westin Bonaventure. Hotel, LA, CA.
1992 "Golden Angel", Southern California Motion Picture Council

Books
Alluring as death
Virgin Zodiac

Gallery

Paintings

Photography

See also
List of Armenian artists
List of Armenians

References

External links

 Samvel Sevada (Trubadur)
 Prominent Artist Samvel Sevada's Exhibition Launched Today at UN Armenia Office

Category:1949 births
Category:Armenian painters
Category:Armenian photographers
Category:Armenian male poets
Category:Living people
Category:People from Gyumri