Smoking Man / Sigara İçen Adam

Vav Hakobyan was born in 1987, in Yerevan. He enrolled in the Mkhitar Sebastatsi Secondary School in Yerevan in 1994 and in 1995 he took courses for sculpturing and painting, while taking part in several art exhibitions. In 1999 he got accepted to the Mkhitar Sebastatsi Art School and became a member of the “Agrogitaspyur Youth Club” until the year 2002. During his studies in the Art School, Hakobyan took several courses in sculpturing, painting, woodcraft, ceramics and graphical painting, as well as carpet weaving. Between 2000 and 2002 he took part in many sculpturing symposiums along with famous Armenian sculptors. In 2002, Hakobyan was accepted to the Panos Terlemezyan Art College, Faculty of Fine Arts in Yerevan, Armenia. During his studies in this College he took part in many student exhibitions in the National Gallery of Armenia, the Artist’s Union of Armenia, the Terlemezyan Art College, the Tumanyan’s Museum, The Union of the Armenian Architects, the Tamanyan's Museum.