Armen Kojoyian

is an American artist, born in 1953 in Washington, DC. From his early years growing up in New England, Armen has always been dedicated to producing art and design. As a teenager, he learned to paint from Paul Rahilly at the historic Fenway Studios of Boston. His studies as a BFA painting major at University of Rhode Island were informed by the sculptural and biomorphic forms in the work of professors Susan Heideman and Richard Calabro.

Armen redirected his professional career towards graphic design and illustration in the MFA of Design program at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, where he studied under Hans Van Dyck. Armen thrived in the publishing field as Designer/Art Director at McGraw Hill Companies, Simon and Schuster and several other publishing firms where he garnered several industry awards for his graphic design and illustration work.

Armen renewed his dialogue of the image-making process in classes at the Art Students League of New York with the late George Cannata and Larry Poons. Armen’s work subsequently surged in a expression of organic abstraction.

Armen’s artworks create the possibility of recognizable forms in a instant, yet these forms can vanish into deformity in the next glance. The visual mystery Armen creates from new organisms in a fluid symbolism are deconstructed of apparent meaning revealing a new living environment of natural forms intertwined in conflict and synergy.

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