Samvel Sevada

Samvel Sevada

Born	Samvel Grigoryan (1949-09-12) 12 September 1949 Gyumri, Armenia
Nationality	Armenian
Known for	Painter, photographer, poet

Samvel Sevada (Armenian: Սամվել Սևադա), is an Armenian artist, photographer and poet, born on September 12, 1949 in the city of Gyumri.

Biography

Samvel Sevada was born in Gyumri, Armenia.
1974 graduated from the Yerevan’s State Fine Arts and Theatre Institute.
1980 Member of the Armenian Union of Artists.
2009 Member of the Armenian Union of Photographers.
1996-1998 General painter of Yerevan.
1989-2006 lived and created in the USA, in 1990 opened the first Armenian painting school in the US.^[1]
Samvel Sevada has set up “Sevada Art Studio” in Yerevan.
Photos of Samvel Sevada are published in many journals and magazines in the USA, Canada, Russia, Ukraine and many more countries.^[2]
Samvel Sevada had more than 32 exhibition in different countries of the world: USA, Canada, Poland, Moldova, Estonia, Moscow, Tbilisi, Yerevan,.^[3]^[4]

His son, Armenian director Art Sevada (Artak Sevada) plans the screening of the movie The Genex on April 24, 2015 when Armenians around the world will be marking the 100th anniversary of the start of the Ottoman Empire’s genocidal policy during World War I that resulted in the killings and deportations of some 1.5 million Armenians.^[5]