Vera Sogoyan
Vera Sogoyan | |
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Վերա Սողոյան  | |
| Born | December 27, 1925 Artvin |
| Died | August 14, 1986 (aged 60) Kyiv |
Vera Soghomoni Sogoyan (Armenian: Վերա Սողոմոնի Սողոյան; December 27, 1925 – August 14, 1986) was an Armenian socialist realist painter.
Vera Sogoyan was born in Artvin, a town near the Black Sea in Turkey. Her family relocated to the USSR in 1928, likely due to persecution following the Armenian genocide.[1]
She studied under N. Sharikov at Krasnadar and Grigorev at the Kyiv Art Institute.[2] She was admitted to the Art Institute with a letter of recommendation from Martiros Saryan and graduated in 1952. At the Art Institute, she met and married fellow student Volodymyr Chernikov. The had one child, the neo-Symbolist painter Mykola Chernikov.[1]
Following graduation, she was a successful painter in the Soviet-mandated socialist realism style, producing brightly colored scenes of families and children. The only solo exhibition of her work was posthumously held in 1989.[1]
Vera Sogoyan died on 14 August 1986 in Kyiv.[1]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c d Hartmond, Myroslava. "Body of Work: The Chernikov Family Archive". Clerestory Magazine (8).
- ^ "Sogoyan, Vera Semenova". Benezit Dictionary of Art. Oxford University Press. 2011-10-31. doi:10.1093/benz/9780199773787.article.b00171587. ISBN 978-0-19-977378-7.