About John Berberian

John Berberian's interest in art started at an early age. while attending Providence Country Day School, he was encouraged by his art teacher, and upon graduation, won the art award for his "sensitivity, originality, and excellence in drawing". 
      All of John's pencil drawings and oil paintings are self-taught. He has shown his work at the Mystic Art Festival in Connecticut, and has twelve of his portraits on permanent display in the “Titanic" exhibit at the Marine Museum in Fall River, MA.
      John had a solo exhibit, for six months, of eighteen portraits of Civil War officers and soldiers in the cyclorama in the National Military Park at Gettysburg, PA.
      He was commissioned to draw and present the portraits of Julie Andrews and her husband, Blake Edwards, when she accepted an award from the R.I. International Film Festival. he also had the opportunity to draw and present a portrait of Ernest Borgnine while he received, in person, his lifetime achievement award.
      John was awarded first place at the Danielson, Connecticut Art Festival. He was a prize winner for his still life and for his portrait of Lincoln in two exhibits at the Wickford Art Association and was awarded first prize by the R.I. Art Education Association at the Krauss Gallery in Providence.
      John has had a successful month long exhibit at the Regency Plaza in downtown Providence, and was chosen to exhibit a six foot high drawing of “Buffalo Bill" Cody in the atrium of the Power's Building on Capitol Hill. As a member of the Newport Museum Artist's Guild, he was an award winner