Koto Javakhyan is an Armenian painter whose work draws from expressionism, mythological imagination, and cultural memory to produce a visual language that is immediately recognizable, formally rigorous, and impossible to look away from.
Koto Javakhyan —
Painting, Drawing & Works on Paper
Trained from an early age at the Henrikh Igityan National Center of Aesthetics, and later at the Hakop Kojoyan Educational Complex and the State Academy of Arts of Armenia, Javakhyan developed a formal foundation that quietly underlies the apparent freedom of his mature work.
His paintings move across registers with confidence: stark monochromatic works in which white forms emerge from dense black grounds; large-scale canvases in saturated reds and electric yellows animated by fantastical animal figures; serialized grids that collide folk memory with the textures of contemporary life; and intimate works on paper that reward close, sustained attention. Across all of it, a consistent private iconography persists — hybrid creatures, scattered eyes, fractured faces, and ornamental patterning rooted in Armenian visual tradition.
Javakhyan has exhibited extensively in Armenia and internationally, and has been a member of the Union of Artists of Armenia since 2013. His work is held in private collections and carries increasing institutional attention.
[ Works available by inquiry — Javakhyan Collection ]
Koto Javakhyan, Eight Windows of the Same Mind, 2026, acrylic and oil sticks on canvas, 48 × 72 in (122 × 183 cm), © Koto Javakhyan, courtesy of IMAST Agency.
Koto Javakhyan, Evolution in Nine, 2026, acrylic and oil sticks on canvas, 48 × 60 in (122 × 152 cm), © Koto Javakhyan, courtesy of IMAST Agency.
Exhibitions & Press
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2025
Gallery Art Club
Los Angeles, CA, USA2025
Sahak Yan Art Symposium
Los Angeles, CA, USA2024
ArtToon Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, USA2024
ArtToon Gallery
Las Vegas, NV, USA2024
Art San Diego
San Diego, CA, USA2024
Meridian Expo
Yerevan, Armenia2024
Art Kvartal
Yerevan, Armenia2024
Pershing Art Space
Los Angeles, CA, USA2024
Machanents 9th International Art Symposium
Glendale, CA, USA2024
Art Capital
Paris, France2024
PSB Art Show
Los Angeles, CA, USA2023
Endemic Contemporary Art Exhibition
Glendale, CA, USA2023
Biennale D’Arte della Riviera Romana
Ladispoli, Italy2023
Gallery ABC
Burbank, CA, USA2023
Artists' Union of Armenia
Yerevan, Armenia2022
Art Kvartal
Yerevan, Armenia2022
5 Art Gallery Moscow
Moscow, Russia2019
Tired Sun — Smallest Gallery
Yekaterinburg, Russia2019
Armenian Colors — Art Gallery Fort
Sochi, Russia2013
Art Sochi — Art Gallery Renoir
Sochi, Russia2004
Armenian Genocide — Albert and Tov Boyajyan Gallery
Yerevan, Armenia2003
All Armenian Exhibition — Union of Artists of Armenia
Yerevan, Armenia1999
Dreams — Gallery of Fine Arts
Sofia, Bulgaria1998
Embassy of the Republic of Armenia in Egypt
Cairo, Egypt
