Vagrich Bakhchanyan

Vagrich Akopovich Bakhchanyan (; ; ; born May 23, 1938 in Kharkiv, Soviet Ukraine - November 12, 2009, New York City, United States) was a Soviet and American painter, nonconformist artist and writer-conceptualist of Armenian origin.

Early life
He was born to an Armenian family in Kharkiv, Ukraine, where he studied and began painting. In the mid-1960s he moved to Moscow, where he worked at Literaturnaya Gazeta.

In 1974 Bakhchanyan emigrated to United States, and lived in New York City, where he was active in the literary and art scene. There he collaborated with Russian and Soviet writers Sergei Dovlatov, Alexander Genis, and Naum Sagalovsky, among others. He died on November 12, 2009 in New York City.

According to Vagrich's last will, his ashes were scattered high in the Geghama mountains in Armenia.Vagrich and the Black Square

Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, United States
National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia 
Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Yerevan Modern Art Museum, Yerevan, Armenia
Museum of National Arts of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
John Paul Getty Research Center and Museum, Los Angeles, United States

 References 

Other websites

Biography
Bakhchanyan at Paris-Art.com 
 Мух уйма//Вагрич Бахчанян
 Русский европеец Вагрич Бахчанян  
 Vagrich Bakhchanyan

Category:1938 births
Category:2009 deaths
Category:Soviet artists
Category:Conceptual artists
Category:People from Kharkiv