Gabrielyan Nina

Nina Gabrielyan was born in 1953 in Moscow. She graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages named after M. Thorez. A poet, a novelist, a poetry translator and a culture expert. She is the author of poetry books “Reed Pipe" (published in Erevan in 1987), “A grain of pomegranate" (published in Moscow in 1992), “Singing tree" (published in Moscow in 2010) and a book of prose “Master of the Grass" (published in Moscow in 2001). She has also participated in international scientific conferences in Russia, Poland, Germany, Finland, days of Russian culture in Malaysia and international women's forum in China.

Her love for art appeared quite early but first it showed only in her literary works – in the intensity of colors in her poems and prose. Her meeting with the outstanding artist and teacher Boris Otarov turned out to be life-changing. From 1976 to 1991 she attended his workshop.

In general she does oil and crayon paintings. Nina Gabrielyan's paintings and graphics possess bright national identity, the flavor of generosity and laconic form. Her artwork reveals the creative tradition of medieval Armenian miniature with the expressive displacement of proportions when depicting human faces and figures so characteristic for the masters of the epoch.

She is a member of the International Arts Fund and the Union of the Writers of Moscow. Her personal exhibitions have been organized more than ten times, among which the exhibition in Moscow House of Nationalities in 2013, and a recent one in the Museum of Naïve Art in Moscow (2015). Her works are presented in the collections of Moscow Naive Art Museum, Museum Exhibition Complex "Volokolamsky Kremlin", Art Gallery in Shushi, Nagorno-Karabakh, and private collections in Russia, Armenia, Great Britain, Italy and USA.