Artists

Vostanik Darbinyan is a contemporary Armenian artist who lives and works in Yerevan, Armenia. He was born in 1986.
From 2003 to 2009, he studied at the National University of Architecture and Construction of Armenia, where he graduated with a degree in architecture. He has worked at various architectural firms and collaborated with several architects, including Hamlet Kachatryan, Hayk Asatryan, and others.
He also has a musical education and has worked as an organist in several Armenian churches, including the Holy Mother of God Church in Malatia, as well as St. Hripsime, St. Gayane and St. Shoghakat Churches in Echmiadzin.
As an artist, he has participated in several exhibitions, including those held at the Artists' Union of Armenia, the Silva Kaputikyan House-Museum and elsewhere.

Born on May 11, 1958, in the village of Tavush (formerly Tovuz), in the Tavush Province of Armenia. In 1975, he graduated from the village secondary school and was admitted to the Faculty of Architecture of Yerevan Polytechnic Institute. In 1980 he graduated form the Institute with a degree in Architecture of Residential and Public Buildings.
From 1980 to 1983, Galust Darbinyan worked as an architect-restorer at the Department for the Preservation and Restoration of Historical and Architectural Monuments. From 1983 to 1988, he worked as a mural restoration specialist, and from 1988 to 1990 as a surveyor and copyist of medieval Armenian khachkars (cross-stones).
Galust Darbinyan took up painting and sculpture at an early age, while still at school. He participated in regional and national exhibitions and received awards. Since 1990, he has devoted himself to independent artistic work, primarily in painting.
In 1990, after winning a competition, he created a series of paintings on religious themes at the Italian Hospital in Ashotsk.
In 1983, he sculpted the Homeland Fountain-Memorial in tufa stone. In 2026, the monument was granted the status of a regional monument.
Since 1999, Galust Darbinyan has been a member of the Artists’ Union of Armenia. He has participated in 75 group and solo exhibitions in Armenia, France, Italy (Florence and Ravenna), Bulgaria, Iran, Cyprus, Canada, and the United States.
His works are kept in museums, cultural institutions, and Armenian churches, as well as in private collections in numerous countries around the world.