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Vahe Berberian
1955 | Beirut, Lebanon
1955. It starts with the streets, smells and sounds of Beirut, Lebanon. In beginnings, reactions are instinctive and purity is not compromised. Vahé Berberian, an Armenian painter, author, playwright, director and actor, is able to hold on to that instinct and purity through all his journeys, becoming the phenomena known as Vahe.
His parents’ home in Beirut served as a stage where personalities from the worlds of theater, literature and the arts interacted passionately. Conversation flowed and humor filtered intensity. This is where Vahe, the storyteller, was formed.
1973. Leaving the safety of the familial nest, exchanging the familiar with the unknown, Vahé becomes part of the counterculture and travels through Eastern and Western Europe. Upon returning home, he lives the onset of the Lebanese Civil War. 1976. Devastated, Vahé reluctantly relocates to Los Angeles. Four years later, he graduates with honors, receiving a degree in journalism, while fervently pursuing art.
Work
Featured Work
This Summer
Acrylic on Canvas
2011
48″ x 38″ (inches)
Vahe Mix
Acrylic on Canvas
2010
24″ x 24″ (inches)
Pesh
Acrylic on Canvas
2009
24″ x 24″ (inches)
Arbol De La Vida
Acrylic on Canvas
2010
60″ x 96″ (inches)
Parev
Acrylic on Canvas
2011
24″ x 24″ (inches)
Kimono
Acrylic on Canvas
2010
18″ x 18″ (inches)
Experience
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 — Eye Candy, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 — LA Art Show, Mooradian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 — Myu-Zik En Art, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009 — LAX Beyond Abstraction, Madison Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2009 — Inside Out & Other Oxymorons, Levantine Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2009 — Gracias La Vida, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 — Present Art XIV, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 — Out of Context, Folk Tree Gallery, Pasadena, CA
2006 — Present Art XIII, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 — Present Art XII, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005 — Gallery Saint Germain Premier, Los Angeles, CA. Presented by UCLA,
2005 — The Salamander Fund and Gallery Saint Germain
2004 — Present Art XI, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 — Gallery Saint Germain Premier Los Angeles, CA
2004 — VIIISIONS, Kerckhoff Gallery, UCLA, CA
2003 — Art in the Vault, Altadena Gallery, Altadena, CA
2003 — Present Art X, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 — Ken Dunipace, 2nd Annual Benefit & Art Show, Broadway Building, Hollywood, CA
2003 — From Armenia to Arafat, Forest Lawn Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2002 — Present Art IX, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002 — Projection Unknown, SoHo Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 — Modern Icon, Glendale Central Library, Glendale, CA
2001 — Present Art VIII, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 — Reflections 99, American-Armenian Cultural Arts Festival, Downey Museum of Arts
1999 — 20th Anniversary Celebration, The Café, Venice, CA
1998 — Reflections 98, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
1998 — Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite, Museum of Art, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA
1998 — World Artists for Tibet, Museum of Art, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA
1997 — Conceptual Evolution, Museum of Art, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA
1995 — Present Art III, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995 — Abstract Expressions, Palette Des Artistes, Pasadena, CA
1995 — Juried Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1994 — Kerckhoff Art Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
1994 — Group Show, The Rose Cafe, Venice, CA
1993 — L.A. Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA
1992 — Les Peintres Du Desir, Paris, France
1989 — Conspicuously Chronicled, Pico Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988 — Spring Art Exhibition, Hamazkayin, Pasadena ,CA
1987 — Armenian Alumni Association, Ambassador Hilton, Los Angeles, CA
1985 — Beart_Hoven, 1st Movement, Baert Gallery, Glendale, CA
1983 — Association of Trans-Caucasian & Armenian Studies, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 — I Come Without A Past, Hamazkayin Tutunjian Gallery, Beirut, Lebanon
2010 — Involuntary Laughter, Chryssanthou Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 — Four Months In Heaven, Ambrogi Castanier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 — Milagros, Casitas Studios, Los Angeles, CA
2006 — Nursing Notes, Gallery Saint Germain, Los Angeles, CA
2003 — In Sanity, Couturier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2000 — Wet Paint, Hamazkayin, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2000 — West Paint CBAC, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2000 — SEN-SU-AL-I-TY, Thomas Lavin Showroom, West Hollywood, CA
1999 — Lost & Found, BGH Gallery, Bergamont Station, Santa Monica, CA
1997 — Words & Colors, Hamazkayin, San Francisco, CA
1996 — Words & Colors, Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995 — Fiddler’s, Santa Monica, CA
1994 — First Interstate Bank, Beverly Hills, CA
1994 — Cafe Santorini, Pasadena, CA
1993 — Insomnia Cafe, Sherman Oaks, CA
1992 — Paintings, The Rose Cafe, Venice, CA
1989 — Colors & Forms, Holly Street Gallery, Pasadena, CA
1983 — Vahe, Drawings, Omni Art Gallery, Encino, CA
1982 — Elizalde, International Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
1981 — Hamazkayin, Los Angeles, CA
1975 — Works in Ink & Watercolor, Gallerie Kassam, Beirut, Lebanon