40 20th century Armenian painters

Stepan Meliksetovich Aghajanian was an Armenian painter; known primarily for portraits and landscapes.

Karen Aghamyan is an Armenian painter. He has served as President of the Artists' Union of Armenia since 1998.

Simon Agopian or Simon Hagopian at times Simon Agopyan was a prominent Ottoman Armenian landscape and portrait painter.

Martin "Markos" Akoghlyan , is an Armenian artist.

Maide Arel (1907–1997), also known as Mayde Feruhhan, was a Turkish-born Armenian painter. She is known for her work is abstract and stylized figures, similar to Cubism, often in dull colors.

Hovhannes Avetisyan was an Armenian painter.

Minas Avetisyan was an Armenian painter.

Gevorg Bashinjaghian was an Armenian painter who had significant influence on Armenian landscape painting.

Zabelle C. Boyajian was an Armenian painter, writer, and translator, who lived most of her life in London.

Dikran Chökürian was an ethnic Armenian writer and teacher, editor of the journal Vostan (Ոստան) and a victim of the Armenian Genocide.

Sarkis Diranian was an Armenian orientalist painter. Originally from the Ottoman Empire, he was established for many years in Paris.

Areg Elibekyan is an Armenian painter.

Sarkis Erganian was an Ottoman Armenian painter.

Arshak Abrahami Fetvadjian was an Armenian artist, painter and designer. He is best known for his watercolor paintings of the architectural monuments of the medieval Armenian city of Ani, and for designing the currency and postage stamps of the first Republic of Armenia (1918–1920). As a result of over 20 years devoted to art, Fetvadjian produced no less than 2,000 works, varying from lucid pencil drawings to painstakingly accurate watercolors, that depicted historically significant churches, monasteries, chapels and palaces. A considerable number of his other works were also portraits of Armenians at the turn of the 20th century.

Vruir Galstian was an Armenian painter.

Arshile Gorky was an Armenian-American painter who had a seminal influence on Abstract Expressionism. He spent most his life as a national of the United States. Along with Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, Gorky has been hailed as one of the most powerful American painters of the 20th century. As such, his works were often speculated to have been informed by the suffering and loss he experienced in the Armenian Genocide.

Paul Guiragossian was an Armenian Lebanese painter.

Ara Harutyunyan was an Armenian monumental sculptor, graphic artist, People's Artist of Armenia, corresponding member of Academy of Fine Arts of USSR and Russian Academy of Arts, professor.

Eduard Isabekyan was an Armenian painter, founder of thematic compositional genre in Armenia.

Richard Jeranian 17 July 1921 – 10 October 2019) was an Armenian painter, draftsman and lithographer active in France.

Hakob Kojoyan was an Armenian artist.

Vartan Makhokhian was an Armenian painter who lived in the Ottoman Empire and France and was known for his marine paintings. After completing his studies at the Berlin Academy of Arts, he traveled and exhibited his art in France, Germany, Egypt and elsewhere. His art is displayed in various museums throughout the world.

Levon Manaseryan was an Armenian artist and university professor.

Vahram Manavian was an Ottoman and Egyptian painter of Armenian descent.

Ashot Melkonian was an Armenian artist associated with Neorealistic artistic style and Honorary Artist of the Republic of Armenia. He mainly devoted himself to landscape and portraits painting, as well as murals. He is one of the founders of Neorealism in Armenian art. Art critic Shahen Khachatrian referred to Melkonian as "an artist of the generation of the 1960s that provided a new impetus to the development of Armenian art. Reality is a characteristic feature of Ashot's art". Honorary artist of Armenia Hakob Hakobian referring to Melkonian wrote "a brilliant composer of scenes, an author of exquisite portraits and landscapes, a master of gentlest and subtlest painting ... Melkonian is the pride of our painting school." According to art critic L.S. Zinger (Moscow), Melkonian's art is "a mix of humanistic tradition and his Armenian outlook."

Sergey Dmitrievich Merkurov was a prominent Soviet sculptor-monumentalist of Greek-Armenian descent. He was a People's Artist of the USSR, an academic at the Soviet Academy of Arts, and director of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts from 1944 to 1949. Merkurov was considered the greatest Soviet master of post-mortem masks. He was the sculptor of the three biggest monuments of Joseph Stalin in the USSR.

Arpenik Nalbandyan was a Soviet-Armenian artist.

Yenovk Stepani Nazarian was an Armenian portrait and landscape painter. Many of his were done in pastels and have not survived.

Sergei Parajanov was an Armenian film director, screenwriter and artist who made significant contribution to world cinema with his films Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors and The Color of Pomegranates. He invented his own cinematic style, which was totally out of step with the guiding principles of socialist realism. This, combined with his controversial lifestyle and behaviour, led Soviet authorities to repeatedly persecute and imprison him, and suppress his films. Despite this, Parajanov was named one of the 20 Film Directors of the Future by the prestigious Rotterdam International Film Festival, and his films were ranked among the greatest films of all time by the British Film Institute's magazine Sight & Sound.

Martiros Saryan was an Armenian painter, the founder of a modern Armenian national school of painting.

Gregorio Sciltian was an Italian-Armenian painter, designer, and medallist. Sciltian is well known for his portraiture and trompe-l'oeil compositions.

Henrik Siravyan was an Honored Artist of Armenia.

Karen Smbatyan was an Armenian painter.

Vardges Sureniants was an Armenian painter, sculptor, illustrator, translator, art critic, and theater artist. He is considered the founder of Armenian historical painting. His paintings feature scenes from Armenian fairy-tales and various historical events. Although Sureniants had one exhibition dedicated to his works in his lifetime, he was admired by many of his contemporaries which include many well-known figures in Armenian and Russian society including Martiros Saryan, Ilya Repin, and Vladimir Stasov.

Yeghishe Martirosi Tadevosyan was an Armenian painter associated with the Peredvizhniki and Mir Iskusstva movements. He was awarded the title of "Honored Artist" by the Armenian SSR in 1935.

Panos Terlemezian was an Armenian landscape and portrait painter; known for his support of Armenian nationalist causes.

Yervant Voskan, also known as Osgan Efendi was a renowned Ottoman painter, sculptor, instructor, and administrator of Armenian descent. He is considered the first sculptor of Turkey.

Garabet Yazmaciyan was a prominent Ottoman painter of Armenian descent.

Karapet Yeghiazaryan was an Armenian painter, Honored Artist of Armenia, 1983.

Hovhannes Zardaryan was an Armenian painter.