Ara Shahumyan / SHAH

Ara Shahumyan (Shah) was born in 1978 in Yerevan, Armenia and was trained in the art of painting under the instruction of his father, esteemed and world renown painter, Haghtanak Shahumyan. Ara Shahumyan graduated from the Panos Terlemzyan School of Art in Yerevan, Armenia in 1996, and later went on to attain his masters degree in Fine Arts from the Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts in 2002. His journey as an artist has since allowed him to exhibit his paintings and works of art throughout Europe, Asia, the Middle East, and the United States.Since 2014 he has been endowed as an Art Expert in painting and graphic arts for the State Expert Centre of Cultural Values National Gallery of Armenia. He has also been commissioned as a resident paint restoration artist by the National Gallery of Armenia since 2016.