“People are my landscape,” contemporary artist Tigran Tsitoghdzyan explains. “I’m just an observer. I love being lost in the crowd and feeling anonymous.”
Yet, Tsitoghdzyan—who goes by Tigran professionally—found himself set apart from the crowd at an early age in his native Armenia. Henrik Iguitan, founder and director of both the Modern Art Museum and Children’s Art Museum based in Yerevan, hand-picked ten-year-old Tigran to star in a solo exhibit featuring over 100 of his paintings. Tigran doesn’t make too much of his impressive start. “For me it was normal. My class came to the exhibit with my art teacher. She told me I could do better.” Tigran humbly jokes, “I actually had really bad grades in that art class.”
