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SCULPTOR VARDAN

Vardan was born in the Southern part of the Soviet Union to an artist and a
school principal. After beginning art school at the age of six, Vardan had his first solo
exhibition at age of 10. After graduating, he was accepted to an art school for the future
students of The Academy of Fine Art.
Vardan’s work is a process which transforms ordinary matter into an extraordinary form that
connects the realm of dreams and fillings with the material world. Conceptual Realism is a
style that he has developed over many years. This is a continuation of the traditional style
created by his beloved mentor Ernst Neizvestny.
Vardan is a third generation sculptor, and is currently working on his PHD, with a thesis
dedicated to the Cappella Sistina.
In 1997, after living through the turmoil of two wars in his home land Chechnya,
Vardan was forced to leave the Soviet Union and fled to the United States due to the
several factors and one of them was his Jewish-Armenian ancestry. He comes from the one
of the prominent Armenian dynasties of Karabach, the dynasty of Melik Egan, the son of the
Catholicos Gukas the First Garnetzy, house of Cilicia (1731-1737). His family roots began
during the Second Jerusalem Temple, when in the First century of BC, his and several other
noble families of Jerusalem were invited to move to Armenia by the Emperior Tigranes the
Great.
Several years later, Vardan was recognized by the highly acclaimed sculptor Ernst
Neizvestny as his only apprentice. Vardan is also the only non-American born Industrial
Designer chosen to become one of the creators of presidential limousines for two US
presidents, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.
Vardan works with traditional materials including stone, bronze, steel, glass and has
participated in some of the most exclusive projects worldwide including monuments, mosaic
murals, portrait sculptures and oversized stained glass as well as Roman, Florentine and
Byzantine mosaics. Vardan’s works are located in private collections in Saudi Arabia, France, England, Israel, Germany, Spain and Russia. His more recent works are located in California, New York, New Jersey, Michigan, Oklahoma, Maryland and Pennsylvania.