Mixed-media collage paintings with intriguing textures and fantastic realism.
In 2002, Minas Halaj graduated from the University of Fine Arts in Yerevan, Armenia. The same year he moved to California and attended the University of Art in San Francisco from 2004 to 2007.
He is now a widely recognized artist with exhibitions and collectors from around the world.
Collage Paintings with Depth
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Minas’s first teacher
Minas Halaj was born in Yerevan, Armenia. His father is an artist too and he was Mina’s first teacher. “At the beginning of a young age I grew up in an artistic atmosphere, but my parents didn’t want me to become an artist,” Minas recalls. “They planed for me to be something else, but not an artist.”
Life, however, had other plans. “I tried to improve myself in different skills and it didn’t work out for me,” says Minas. “I was out of luck. But art was always inside of my head and it was taking me in an endless circle.”
Fast forward to today and Minas has been painting for about 20 years as a full-time artist.
The conflict between humans and nature
“My art inspiration is the twenty-first century human with his isolation from nature,” says Minas. “I want my paintings to portray the conflict between humans, nature, and technology and how technology distracting us.”
The conflict between humans and nature
Currently, Minas is working on the largest size painting that he has ever worked on. The size is 80″x72″. Most of his paintings are smaller sizes because he prefers to work on panels instead of on canvas.
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To see Minas’s latest sculptures, visit Saatchi Art >
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