Artist Profile
Lilit Manaryan
1992 – Lilit Manaryan was born into artistic family in Yerevan.
1999-2009 – Went to school No. 114 after Kh. Dashtents, and attended flute lessons in music school after A. Spendiaryan (2001-2006).
2009-2015 – Studied in Yerevan State Conservatory after Komitas in flute class (Master Degree in Performing Arts).
(2015-2018) – Lilit has worked in Ministry of Defence of Republic of Armenia as a Senior Flutist in General Office Military Orchestra, serving as the very first female musician of the orchestra.
As a musician Lilit has played numerous recitals in different cities of Armenia, has taken part in charity concerts, was the member of singer Marianna Karapetyan’s “Orpheus” ensemble.
Lilit is now is on her way to obtain her PhD degree in Musicology.
From 2011 to 2013 Lilit has completed the comic art courses at APBDA in Yerevan, Armenia and in Angoulême, France, under mentorship of such comics artists as Sera Ing, Dominique Bertail, Patrice Cablat and Farid Boudjellal, gaining and practicing the specifics of european artistic comics approach.
In 2011 her first short comic story won the 1st prizes at Yerevan International Comics Festival (2011).
Artist Profile
Lilit Manaryan
Lilit has illustrated roughly 90 author and classical fairy tales and poems for children. Also, she is the concept artist and illustrator of more than 50 musical animation films by Krist Manaryan (“Multi-pulti aybuben” (2014), “What I shall become” (2015).
In 2015 Lilit held 3 personal exhibitions under the same title “Lilit And The Dreams”.
From 2022 to 2026 Lilit has had 17 personal exhibitons of pastel and graphic techniques – “Lilography”, “Real and Surreal Cities”, “Cosmic Party”, “Starry Sky is My Roof”, “Endless Suburb”, “12 months in Yerevan”, “Digital Middle Ages” and many more.
Lilit is an active book illustrator and already has 21 illustrated books for different age range published in Armenia, Russia, Belgium, Canada and United Kingdom – “Fairy Tales of Tun-Tunik”, “Triangle”, “ArdiBook”, “Felo and The Crazy Train”, “Mokh, Dmbldokh and Uncle Krist’s Fairy Tales”, “Arctic Muffin”, “Diary of The Chameleon”, “In Glendale, Brand Street or Without Destiny”, “Multi-Pulti Aybuben”, “Scarlet Sails”, “The Bald Soprano”, “The Human Advantage”, “The Restless Light” and more.
Lilit is an artist of many techniques like ink pen, acrylic paint and oil pastels. Her art is focused on existential issues put on modern and historical scale.
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