About Me
Valeria Mravyan was born and spent her formative years in Moscow, Russia and has resided in the Greater Toronto Area with her husband and two children since the early 1990's
Valeria holds a Masters in Applied Arts from Moscow State Textile University and obtained her first artist's diploma from the Industrial Art College of Moscow. Building on her professional training, Valeria has spent her career experimenting across a variety of mediums including oils, acrylic, watercolours, mixed-media, batiks and tapestries.
Her works have been exhibited in galleries across the globe including the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Arts (Japan), Frankfurt Messe (Germany), Chagall House (Israel), Krimsky Most Gallery (Russia), Monserart Gallery (NY, USA), and Los Gatos Museum of Art (CA, USA).
Industry professionals find her paintings to have a delicate touch of classical Russian constructivism. Her works demonstrate the symbiosis between how a painting looks and how it feels. Through abstract landscapes, Valeria strives to evoke the universal familiarity of a foggy day or a dramatic sunset.
Valeria is fortunate to indulge in her love of painting daily. Her works express her emotions of excitement, happiness, disappointment and sorrow through the warmth of a bright autumn day or the purity of a cold winter morning. Equal parts pain and joy, she is able to expressly celebrate in her works.
Exhibitions
SOLO & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2016-2018 - Westmount Gallery, Toronto, ON
2007-08, 2010 & 2016, - Chancery Art Gallery, Bracebridge, ON
2010 - Hittity Gallery, Toronto, ON
2007-08, 2010-2016 - Chancery Art Gallery, Bracebridge, ON
1999 - Kodiak Gallery, Richmond Hill, ON
1998 - Kensington Art Centre, Campbell, California
1998 - Los Gatos Museum of Art, Los Gatos, California
1997 - North York Centre of Performing Art, North York, ON
1994 - Koffler Gallery, Toronto, ON
1992 - Shagal House, Haifa, Israel
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 - Westmount Gallery, Toronto, ON
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017,2018 - Paula White Diamond Gallery, Waterloo ON
2014 - Neilson Park Creative Centre, Etobicoke, ON
2013-2014 - Artist Project, Toronto, ON
2012 - Oakville City Hall -13th Annual Jury Show, Oakville, ON
2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 - Chancery Art Gallery, Bracebridge, ON
2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 - Art Expo, Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto
2007- Masterpiece Gallery, Toronto, ON,
2006 - Sistem 4 Gallery, Toronto, ON
2004 - Art Focus Fall Show, City Hall, Toronto, ON
2003 - Distillery District Summer Show, Toronto, ON
2000 - Art Expo, New York, USA
1997 - North York City Hall-Art of the Heart Show, Toronto, ON
1997 - North York Performing Art Centre, Toronto, ON
1995 - 1997- Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1993 - Heimtexc 93-Frankfurt, Germany
1992 - Montsserat Gallery, New York, USA
1989 - Krimskiy Most Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1987 - Kuznetsky Most Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Collections & Publications
SELECTED COLLECTIONS/PUBLICATIONS
SNC –Lavalin, Toronto, Canada
Regency Hotel, Houston, TX, USA
SBL & Associates Inc, Chattanooga, TN, USA
Twickers World, London, England
Discount Bank, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Portfolio, Art Consultants, Massachusetts, USA
Diocese of Armenian Church of America, New York, USA
Mr. Shimon Peres, Jerusalem, Israel
2021 - MARQUIS WHO’S WHO MAGAZINE – USA Magazine
2021 - Carrington Publishers USA Magazine
2006- 2020 - PI Creative Art, Toronto
2009-2014 - Magazine Art, Québec
2014-2018 - Fourbro catalogue, Toronto
2012 - McMichael art gallery (museum) catalogue, Kleinberg
2007-2017 - Laila’s catalogues, Toronto
2010 - Corriere Canadese-Italian Newspaper, Toronto
2006-2009 - Romamolding catalogues, Toronto
2005-2008 - Art Folio ,Toronto
2000 - Artfull Creations-Toronto
1998 - Los Gatos Week News Paper, USA
1997 - 1998-Nasha Gazeta-Russian Newspaper, Toronto
1992 - Art 2000