Biography
Gegham Aleksanyan (Armenian: Գեղամ Ալեքսանյան; born 1962) is an Armenian artist working in the United States since 2004.Gegham received his artistic training under Armen Atayan—the student of Martiros Saryan and Alexander Osmerkin. Gegham received his Master of Arts degree from Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts in 1984 and is a member of the Artists Trade Union of the Russian Federation. The subject of numerous publications, Gegham has been recognized in the United States by various art industry publications, including as a Top 50 Artist by Art Business News in Counting Down the Artists of Tomorrow Whose Names You Need to Know Today. Several of his paintings have also shown digitally at Times Square as part of Art Takes Times Square 2012. In 2011, the curatorial team at Artexpo New York recognized Gegham’s The Last Light (2000) as Artwork of the Day on March 16, noting: “The female figure, cloaked with heavy garments, seems to carry the weight of the world. She is a symbol of beauty lost in the diversity of projections that civilization has wrapped around her.”
In recent years, Gegham has been actively participating in juried exhibitions across the United States, including at Ingenuity, a juried sculpture exhibition at Marin Society of Artists, held in association with Pacific Rim Sculptors, a chapter of International Sculpture Center. Gegham also participated in “Art Takes SoHo” and exhibited at Main Street Arts gallery in New York. In 2019, The ArtScope™ exclusively showcased Gegham’s art at Art San Diego 2019, where he auctioned and placed a piece through AccessToArt to support arts education and placed his painting "Melody" with a collector. Gegham participated in a group exhibition in Hawai’i, sponsored by the Hawai’i Island Art Alliance. Gegham’s works have found home in private collections and galleries nationally and internationally.