Sam Grigorian, born in 1957 in Yerevan, Armenia Has lived in Berlin since 1992 At the age of fourteen, painting was not a passion but an inner compulsion. An early and complete realisation that what he wanted to say could only be expressed through colour and surface. He began exhibiting in Armenia in the late 1970s and 1980s and gained recognition at the State Gallery and the Museum of Modern Art in Yerevan. The political conditions of the late Soviet era drew him westwards. In 1992, he moved to Berlin.

The international standing of his work became apparent early on. In 1995, he took part in Art Cologne at Galerie Nothelfer, alongside Cy Twombly, Richard Serra and Robert Rauschenberg. In 2002, his work was exhibited at Galerie De Rijk in The Hague alongside Antoni Tàpies, Karel Appel and Pierre Alechinsky. This was followed by participation in the Holland Paper Biennial 2010, Museum Rijswijk and CODA Apeldoorn; a charity auction of contemporary Armenian art at Christie’s in aid of the Yerevan My Love project, London; art KARLSRUHE; Sydney Art on Paper Fair; Art Stage Singapore; Melbourne Art Fair, Australia; Paper Positions Berlin; ART ASPEN NY; Art Week Berlin 2025 at the Wilhelm Hallen, and so on. Regular solo and group exhibitions in Europe, the USA, Australia, Singapore and Armenia. Works are held in the New Orleans Museum of Art, the Yerevan Museum of Modern Art, the Reinbeckhallen Collection Foundation, and in other private and institutional collections worldwide.