Born on April 1, 1980 in Yerevan, Armenia, Agnes Avagyan started drawing when she was only two. She is a graduate of the Art College after P. Terlemezyan and the Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts.

Since the year 1997 Agnes has been a scholar of the Peace Fund after Minas Avetisyan. Since the year 2005 a founding member of the Association of the Cartoonists of Armenia.

From 1998-2002 Agnes worked as a cartoonist for “Hayastani Hanrapetutyun” the official newspaper of Armenia. From 2001-2006 was the cartoonist of “ArmeniaNow.com” weekly Internet journal.

At the age of 27, she had already presented 9 personal exhibits in Yerevan (1995, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2005), St. Petersburg, Russia (1996), Aleppo, Syria (2002), Beirut, Lebanon (2003), and Zurich, Switzerland (2006). She has also taken part in many group exhibition and contests in Armenia and abroad.

The 7th personal exhibition in Beirut organized by Armenian Catholics at Mesrobian Technical College was held in March of 2003 where the president of Lebanon, Emil Lahoud, received Agnes in his Baabda palace. He gave Agnes a presidential medal, highly evaluating her talent.

The 8th personal exhibition in Yerevan organized by ArmeniaNow.com was held in July of 2005.

The 9th personal exhibition was held in August 2006 in Zurich and was organized by CEVI YMCA Zurich.

In 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, and 2005 Agnes became the youngest artist to participate in the exhibition of the best cartoonists of Armenia (now-Association of the Cartoonists of Armenia).

Her talent is universal: she can draw simultaneously with both hands and has been registered in “Diva” Russian Book of Records. She has demonstrated this remarkable ability in public many times and always does in the opening ceremony of her exhibitions and has been covered in Armenian, Russian, British, French, Lebanese, U.S, Canadian, UAE newspapers and various TV programs.

In 1996, Agnes` work won 1st prize for Best Emblem at the UNISEF Competition for Children’s Communication Day.

In March of 2002, ”Al Bayan” Dubai State Publishing House organized The Second Caricature Competition where about 150 professional cartoonist from 41 countries, including Agnes, took part. As a result, Agnes was recognized as one of the best 15 and was invited to Dubai, UAE to take part in the Forum of that contest. She was the youngest and the only female participant of the Forum.

Despite her youth, Agnes has a strong professional background. She has collaborated with numerous magazines and newspapers in Armenia and abroad, ”Afil” Publishing House in Lebanon and number of other organization such as UNDP, SEAC, International Red Cross, etc.

Agnes is especially fond of illustrating for children’s literature. She illustrated a number of books including “The Zoo-Boy” by David Hovhannes (1993), “Children’s Rights” by UNISEF (1996), and ”Peter Pan” by Manana Centre (1997). Since 2003 she illustrated a series of books by Lebanese Armenian chidlren’s writer Vera Sisserian. In 2005 she worked on a tale book “Sadap” by Nouneh Sarkisyan, another children’s writer.

In 2006, Agnes married and moved to Luzern, Switzerland. There she took part in several festivals both for adults and for children with doing their quick colorful cartoons. She colaborated with „Tut“ magazine and Roman Catholic Church and illustrated logos as well as different Biblical game projects.

Her cartoons are warm and bright. Her positive look towards the future is passed to the viewer making them smile and notice the beauty around.