1899 – Born in Tiflis.
1909-1918 – Studied at the Nersisian School, where he learned painting from R. Shamshinian.
1914-1918 – Studied at the Caucasian Society for the Promotion of Fine Arts’ School of Fine Arts and Sculpture, in E. Tadevosian’s class.
1918-1919 – Lived in Moscow and studied at the Free State Art Studios under P. Konchalovsky.
1919-1921 – Taught painting and fine arts in Tiflis gymnasiums.
1919-1920 – Participated in the Autumn II and III exhibitions (Tiflis).
1921 – Became a professor of painting at the Higher State Art-Technical Workshops.
1921-1922 – Member of the Exhibition Committee of the “Union of Armenian Artists” and the “Hayartun” society.
1922 – Opened a painting exhibition in Constantinople.
1923 – Moved to Paris, where his first solo exhibition was held.
1924 – Participated in the “Salon des Indépendants” and the “Salon d’Automne” exhibitions.
1926 – Participated in the “Salon des Indépendants.”
1928 – Solo exhibition of “Spatial Painting” at the “Van Leer” Gallery (catalogue author: Waldemar Georges).
1929 – “Spatial Painting” works were exhibited at the “Bonaparte” publishing house’s galleries and the “Contemporary Art Panorama” international exhibition, featuring artists such as Braque, Chagall, Delon, Lurçat, Matisse, Miró, Picabia, Picasso, Survage, Utrillo, and others.
1930 – Participated in the “Confrontation” exhibition, as well as exhibitions at the “Fenetre ouverte” gallery and London’s “The Leicester Galleries” with Léger, Metzinger, Severini, and others.
1932 – In Paris, participated in an exhibition of “Cubists, Surrealists, and Abstract Artists” at Léon Rosenberg’s gallery.
1934 – Solo exhibition “Kocharyan: Painting, Sculpture, Graphics” at the “Vignon” gallery.
1935 – After participating in exhibitions in Budapest, Brno, Bratislava, and Prague, published his doctrine on “Spatial Painting.”
1936 – Signed the Manifesto of Dimensionalism with Arp, Miró, Delon, Kandinsky, Picabia, and others.
Returned to Tiflis, applied for membership in the Union of Artists of Georgia but was rejected. Moved to Yerevan in the fall.
1937 – Became a member of the Union of Artists of Armenia, regularly participating in national and All-Union exhibitions.
On October 2, the newspaper “Soviet Armenia” accused Kocharyan of “anti-Soviet propaganda and counter-revolutionary activities.”
1938 – Participated in the Armenian Cultural Week held in Moscow.
1939 – Created a plaster statue of Sassoun David on horseback, commemorating the 1000th anniversary of the “Sassoun David” epic, installed in Yerevan’s railway square (destroyed in 1941).
Illustrated the Leningrad academic edition of the “Sassoun David” epic.
1940 – Awarded the 2nd class prize in a national competition for the sketch of a statue of Nizami Ganjavi.
1941 – Arrested and imprisoned on June 23 by the NKVD on false charges.
1943 – Released on August 23 with the help of friends Karo Khalabyan and Anastas Mikoyan.
1944-1945 – Taught painting and drawing at the Faculty of Architecture.
1947-1948 – Worked at the H. Paronyan Musical Comedy Theater.
Received a patent in Moscow for discovering a new (cold) method for making encaustic paintings.
The Council of Ministers of the Armenian SSR decided to organize the production of encaustic paintings using his method.
1953 – Installed the “Eagle of Zvartnots” monument (bronze) near the Zvartnots Temple.
1955 – Sonia Delone, Melina Kocharyan, and Waldemar Georges launched a campaign in Paris for Kocharyan’s solo exhibition, which resulted in a petition signed by prominent figures in French culture (the exhibition opened only in 1966, without the author or his post-Paris works present).
1956 – Awarded the title of Honored Artist of the Armenian SSR.
1959 – Erected the statue of Sassoun David on horseback (cast bronze) in Yerevan’s railway square.
1963 – The Georges Pompidou Center (Paris) acquired a work from the “Spatial Painting” series (1934).
1965 – First solo exhibition in Yerevan.
Received the title of People’s Artist of the Armenian SSR.
1967 – Awarded the State Prize for the “Sassoun David” statue.
1969 – Installed the statue of Komitas (cast bronze) in Ejmiadzin.
1970 – Participated in the “From Urartu to Our Days” exhibition (Louvre, Paris).
1971 – Second solo exhibition in Yerevan, at the Union of Artists of Armenia.
1972 – Published the album “Ervand Kocharyan” (compiler-author: H. Igityan).
1973-1974 – Solo exhibitions at the Museum of Arts of Eastern Peoples (Moscow), Baku, and Tbilisi.
Kocharyan’s works were acquired by the Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum.
1975 – Erected the second equestrian monument, “Vardan Mamikonian” (cast bronze) in Yerevan.
1976 – People’s Artist of the USSR.
1978 – Solo exhibition of graphic works.
1979 – Died in Yerevan on January 22.
1980 – Posthumous exhibition at the Union of Artists of Armenia.
1984 – The Ervand Kocharyan Museum opened in Yerevan.
1989 – Posthumous exhibition in Paris on the occasion of his 90th anniversary.
1997 – Kocharyan’s name was entered in UNESCO’s list of Anniversaries for 1998-1999.
2000 – Published a new album “Kocharyan” (compiler-author: H. Igityan).
His works are held in the Ervand Kocharyan Museum (Yerevan), the National Gallery of Armenia, the Russian State Museum (St. Petersburg), the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Georges Pompidou Center (Paris), the Museum of Arts of Eastern Peoples (Moscow), the Gulbenkian Museum (Lisbon), and many private collections in Armenia and abroad.
