Sevan Malikyan

Sevan Mardig Malikyan (; born 4 September 1972) is a British expressive artist of Armenian ancestry.

Career Malikyan was born in 1972 in St Pancras, London. Sevan's father, Kevork Malikyan (born 1943) is an Anglo-Armenian actor from Diyarbakır, Turkey who had moved to the UK in 1963 to study at Rose Bruford Drama School. Malikyan's mother Maida (born in 1947), from Nicosia, Cyprus, arrived in the UK in 1959 and worked as a hair stylist in London where they met.

A studio based painter, Malikyan is considered one of the young outstanding artists of his generation with many exhibitions.

Exhibitions Riverside Studios, Brick Lane Gallery and Mall Galleries, London (shortlisted for the Diana Brooks Prize) Fine Art Company Inc London, Group Show Selected Works, 2005 Brick Lane Gallery London, Group Show Figurative paintings, 2006 Fine Art Company Inc London, Group Show Selected Works, 2007 Aspelia Gallery, Larnaka, 2008 “Painting within”, Kypriaki Gonia Gallery, Larnaka, 2011 Passage Through Abstraction, Gloria Gallery, Nicosia, 2014 Cornaro Art Institute, New paintings, Larnaka, 2016