Ishkhan Nigohosyan – Shani /1950-2025/

Born on May 8, 1950 in Sofia. He is the author of five solo exhibitions and has participated in numerous joint exhibitions. He has won awards from his performances in Canada, Turkey and Bulgaria. In July 2004, at the exhibition “Painting-Satire”, organized by the Union of Bulgarian Artists, Ishkhan Nigohosyan won First Prize with his kinetic work “The Crazy Picture”. Ishkhan Nigohosyan has presented several solo exhibitions at the “Noah” Gallery. The author’s works are owned by collections in Germany, Greece, the Netherlands, the USA and other countries. He is a member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists.

…Anyone who comes close to Shani will feel his dedication to art as a creative process, with which he expresses all his thoughts and emotions… His restless spirit makes him constantly experiment, looking for new and new means of expression, and yet, the amazing thing is that we will always feel the thin, ethereal Armenian fingers that build Shani’s style. This means a worldview in which, as in a fairy-tale mirror, the entire rich soul of Shani is reflected. There we will find both philosophical sociability, and amusing satire and sarcasm, and also gentle lyricism. – Ivan Kutuzov