Natalya Mirzoyan

Artist's country of origin: Estonia

Biography

Natalia Mirzoyan is an animation director and artist based in Estonia. She was born in Armenia, Yerevan. She studied Sociology in Yerevan and Graphic art at the St. Petersburg Institute for Decorative and Applied Art.

She studied as animation master student in Estonian Academy of Art. (EKA)

Worked in the animation studio “Petersburg” as an animator and then as the director, involved both in commercial and independent projects.

Her films “My childhood mystery tree (2009), “Chinti” (2012), “Five minutes to sea”(2018) and “Merry Grandmass”(2020) were selected at many festivals, including Berlinale, Annecy, Zagreb and Hiroshima and won numerous prizes.

Currently Natalia is working on her first stop-motion film.

As the artist Natalia had two solo exibitions in Armenia and Saint-Petersburg and participated in several group exibitions. Currently 2 of her artworks are exibited in the group exibition in Children literature centre. She also has published illustrated book in Itali "Five minutes' wich won several awards and was finalist of Bolonja bookfare.

Her work usually captures the fleeting moments of city life, focusing on the fragility of existence and the fluidity of time. She uses mixed techniques to explore the delicate balance between permanence and impermanence.