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.

Selected Exhibition List

[ ABOUT THE SERIES ]

Four faces. Four states of mind.Four versions of the same human experience.

Painted over newspaper, where yesterday's headlines become today's memories, the work explores identity beneath the constant noise of information. Every face carries its own emotions, yet together they form a single fragmented portrait of our time.


[ ABOUT THE SERIES ]

This series explores how urban systems reshape instinct. Each animal reflects a condition of life inside the city - loyalty, survival, speed, memory, collectivity, independence.

They are not lost. They adapted.

Ink on paper 2026


Koto Javakhyan

Portfolio Upon Request.

[Get in touch]

EMAIL

INSTAGRAM