Artist Bio
Shanoor is a Lebanese-Armenian-American fine artist, designer, speaker, and CEO and Owner of Devarj Design Agency, Inc.
His artistic career began at the tender age of 16 in Beirut, Lebanon, where he lived until 1975, when, because of the Lebanese civil war, he migrated to the United States. As a precocious sixteen-year-old, his work was exhibited in the Armenian Genocide Exhibition in Beirut. That year, his paintings were also accepted at the German Cultural Association for International Children's exhibitions. His work was later featured in the Children’s Museum of Armenia (1966) and in a group show at the Musée Sursok (1967). In 1969, Shanoor assisted in sculpting the official portrait bust of The Honorable Sami (Bay) Solh, the Prime Minister of Lebanon, and in 1974, marking an important final achievement in Beirut just before moving to the US, Shanoor participated in a milestone group show at Galerie Contemporaine with Middle Eastern artists Rafic Charaf, Fateh Al Mudarress, Juliana Séraphim.
He was educated in advertising design with a BFA at London’s Barking College, and following Shanoor’s move to Chicago in 1975, he was educated at the Art Institute of Chicago. He began a career in art direction, branding, and design for advertising agencies such as Leo Burnett and BBDO before eventually opening his own design firm in 1984. Alongside his fruitful career in design, Shanoor continued to develop his personal artistic practice. He began experimenting with painting on a range of new materials, including large un-stretched canvases, shower curtains, and found paper, and held shows at various alternative and traditional art spaces and world wide tours including Spain, Switzerland, Berlin, Greece, Dubai, Venezia, NY, Miami, Amsterdam, Chicago, Boston, LA, SC, NC, Missouri and Indiana. Neo Symbolic Surrealist Series 01-15 to 02-15 2025, Shanoor’s paintings were selected for a group exhibition at the Palm Art Gallery titled Landscapes of the Mind. The titles of the paintings are The Visitor, Petrified, Mega Morphosis, Empower 2, and Acceptance.
Landscapes of the Mind Exhibition you can find here:
01-29th February 2025, Group exhibition at Thomson Gallery, Switzerland
01-31st January 2025, Group exhibition at Thomson Gallery, Switzerland
01-30th November 2024, Group exhibition at Andakulova Gallery, Dubai
11-26th 2024 to 01-25th 2025, Shanoor’s paintings were selected for a group show at the Naturalist Gallery Subconscious Exhibition. The titles of the paintings are Petrified, Rebirth, Whirlwind, and Mega Morphosis.
The Naturalist Gallery Subconscious Exhibition can be found here: https://naturalist.gallery/collections/subconscious
01-30th October 2024, Group exhibition at ArtEXPO, Paris
01-30th September 2024, Group exhibition at Thomson Gallery, Switzerland
08-20th 2024 to 10-19th 2024 – Shanoor’s paintings were selected for a group show at the Naturalist Gallery’s Humor Exhibition. For more exhibitions, visit shanoor.com