Atom Hovhanesyan · Winner Collectors Art Prize

Atom Hovhanesyan was a self-taught artist that worked and lived in New York.  He was born in Armenia on August 19, 1981. In 1997, just as Atom graduated from high school at age 16, his family received final Embassy approval for immigration to the United States.  That same year Atom enrolled at New York University to study English and began a part time job at a national restaurant chain. In 1998, Atom applied and was accepted at St. John’s University where he studied Economics while continuing to work in the restaurant industry where he excelled and quickly moved into key management positions in both the New York and Los Angeles restaurant market. Atom relocated from Los Angeles to New York in 2009 and began painting- the passion of his childhood and youth.

From that point his entire life was dedicated to Art. A considered and methodical autodidact, he busied himself with the study of anatomy, perspective, effects of light, color theory, art history, and the works of the Old Masters and the Modern Masters. As a faithful and respectful learner, then successor of legendary master’s vision, style and performance, loved very much traditional choice of medium and ground his own colors. And after colossal dedication to art, some times, 72 hours nonstop painting or drawing, unintentionally or maybe subconsciously created unique, unrepeatable style and technique in post divisionism and ink drawings, never observed before.

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Woman 4, 2015, Oil on Canvas, 122x76 cm

Yanechka, 2017, Oil on Canvas, 51x41 cm

Fall Landscape With Two Trees, 2018, Oil on Canvas, 102x76 cm

Three (Seascape), 2012, Pen on Paper, 102x66 cm

Grace, 2016, Oil on Canvas, 51x46 cm