Emma Harutyunyan
art historian
curator
cultural manager

Сontact
+37498809948
emmaharutyunyan@gmail.com

Work experience
01.2018–08.2019: Cultural coordinator at "Victoria" Charitable Foundation

08.2017–01.2018: International relations specialist at Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts (Matenadaran), Yerevan, Armenia

06–07.2017: Coordinator at the Tumo Studios, Yerevan, Armenia

06.2016: Cultural consultant to the photographer of "Vogue Russia" David Mushegian

2012–2013: Outsource journalist at "Yerevan" city magazine

2012–2013: Researcher and Museum specialist at Museums of Etchmiadzin, Armenia

Researches and programs
08.05–07.2023: Research at the Armenian Patriarchate of Saint James, Topic "Armenian Altar Curtains", The research was funded by Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Jerusalem, Israel

20.02–14.04.2023: Artbox Entrepreneur grant and 6-week career acceleration program by Creative Armenia Arts Foundation, Yerevan, Armenia

08–12.05.2019: Study tour introducing creative industries, Creative Caucasus Mentorship Program, Helsinki, Finland

09–10.05.2019: Creative Caucasus mentorship program and regional conference, Tbilisi, Georgia

17–18.07.2017: Black Sea NGO Conference on creative industries, "Working group about culture and education", Odesa, Ukraine

Curation of the following exhibitions
06.2022 – "Call it contemporary" exhibition, Mesrop Mashtots Institute of Ancient Manuscripts (Matenadaran), Yerevan, Armenia

04.2021 – Matchbox Label Museum in Tumanyan town, Lori, Armenia

01.2019 – "50,100,150․ I am always a soul" (Ես միշտ հոգի․․), H.Tumanyan Museum, Yerevan, Armenia

04.2019 – "A Source" exhibition of sculptural design pieces created with Armenian tuff, AGBU building, Yerevan, Armenia

10.2018 – Co-curator at ARTsakh Fest, Drama Theatre after V. Papazian, Stepanakert, Artsakh

06.2018 – Author and Curator of first product design exhibition in Armenia "Nerka design happening", Former building of MFA, Yerevan, Armenia

05.2016 – Co-founder and curator of Nerka Design Pavilion, Yerevan, Armenia

04.2015 – Installation dedicated to Armenian Genocide, Tumanyan Museum, Yerevan, Armenia

12.2014 – "Dower" exhibition, Tumanyan museum, Yerevan, Armenia

2013–2015: Series of the exhibitions of young Armenian painters at Nerka Art Center, Yerevan, Armenia

Education

2016–2020: PhD of Art History at the UNESCO Chair of History and Theory of Armenian Art, Faculty of History, YSU ( not conferred )

01–05.2012: Exchange program at the University of Aix-Marseille, Faculty of History of Art and Archaeology, France

2010–2012: Master of Art History at the UNESCO Chair of History and Theory of Armenian Art, Faculty of History, Yerevan State University, Armenia

2006–2010: Bachelor of Art History at the UNESCO Chair of History and Theory of Armenian Art, Faculty of History, Yerevan State University, Armenia

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