Mkrtich Tonoyan biography

Mkrtich Tonoyan is an Armenian artist whose work in performance and installation questions the hegemonic militaristic practices inherent in war and its power structures. He initiated and is a member of of the Artists’ Union of Armenia (since 2005), co-founder of “Akos” Cultural NGO (2002) and current president of the AKOS Cultural NGO, founder of the "Art Centre of Social Studies" (ACOSS) international artists-in-residence program (2006), and co-founder of the Microresidence International Network (2012). Tonoyan graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Yerevan in 2002 and has exhibited his work and presented at numerous national and international art events, galleries, and universities, including Dunlop Art Gallery’s 2017 exhibition, Station 7/Mkrtich Tonoyan: Forays in Military Art.