Khoren Matevosyan is a visual artist working across tactile, digital, and moving images, as well
as traditional craftsmanship. His practice explores the intersections of art, culture, and
technology. Over the years, he has worked in diverse disciplines, from character and industrial
design to book illustration, textiles, and contemporary art.
Khoren’s story began with his father, his first “client,
” who paid him for illustrating books. While in
school, he attended art classes with a master craftsman who painted coffins, an unusual but
formative encounter that shaped his understanding of labor and artistry. In 2012, he joined the
TUMO Center for Creative Technologies, where he developed his skills to visualize ideas
through emerging technologies. Later, he returned to TUMO as an instructor, educator, and
eventually a member of its design team.
While studying interior design at the National University of Architecture and Construction,
Khoren became deeply interested in gaming and environment design. Collaborations with
Plexonic Games and Cyclopes Game Studio allowed him to explore visual storytelling through
interactive worlds, experiences that expanded his artistic vocabulary beyond static
image-making.
In 2018, together with Ani Arakelyan and Areg Movsisyan, he co-founded the art collective
Kupikazu, dedicated to connecting contemporary art, traditional culture, and innovative design
practices.
Unexpectedly, his two years of mandatory military service (2019–2021) became one of the
most productive periods of his career. During this time, he created illustrations for seven books
and comics that examined military life, inner conflict, and the human condition. These works
remain unpublished, as he’s waiting for the right moment to release them.
Throughout his career, Matevosyan has contributed to numerous cultural projects, including the
19th Golden Apricot Film Festival, exhibitions with Rambalkoshe Contemporary Art Museum,
and collaborations with Vajrapar Studio and Woods Center.
The years 2024 and 2025 have been particularly significant for his artistic development. In 2024,
he collaborated with composer Tigran Hamasyan on the album The Bird of a Thousand Voices,
inspired by an ancient Armenian fairytale. Khoren led the album’s visualization, design, and
illustration, creating a special vinyl edition with an accompanying illustrated book. The project
later expanded into a computer game that fused music, myth, and digital design. The resulting
visual language blurred the line between past, present and future, weaving together mythology,
mysticism, and contemporary aesthetics.
In 2025, Khoren completed a major public art project with Woods Center, painting a large-scale
mural on one of its walls. The work revived the Armenian tradition of monumental murals, a
practice that thrived in both ancient and Soviet-Armenian architecture, reinterpreting it through a
lens of technology, spirituality, and contemporary visual language.Having worked as an illustrator, Matevosyan increasingly experiments with materiality.
Grounded in ancient Armenian traditions of carpet weaving and stonework, he brings the
illustrated myths into tactile forms. His narratives, drawn from his heritage, its past, present, and
speculative futures, emerge in both traditional and new media, reflecting an ongoing dialogue
between myth, matter, and modernity.
As part of the first generation of artists born and raised in post-Soviet, independent Armenia,
Khoren’s work embodies the urgency of redefining national identity through reimagined myths.
Inheriting a three-thousand-year-old indigenous culture long subjected to imperial domination,
he turns to image and story as tools of reclamation, exploring the intersection of everyday
culture, science, technology, and the unknown as pathways to recover and reinvent the human
experience.
