Chronology
1945
Born May 29, Tbilisi, Georgia
1953
Attends sculpture classes at Tbilisi Palace of Pioneers
1956
Family moves to Moscow when his father is promoted to a position at the All-Union Institute of Engineering of Agricultural Power Stations
Attends Picasso’s first solo exhibition in the Soviet Union at the Pushkin Museum with his mother
1957
Attends the Sixth World Festival of Youth and Students with his older brother Garegin
1959
Makes multiple visits to the first ever American National Exhibition in the USSR with friends
1960–1963
Attends Mathematics and Physics Lyceum
1962
Makes first visit to the studio of Georgy Motovilov, the chair of the Department of Architectural and Decorative Plastics at the Stroganov Academy
1964
Successfully enrolls at the Stroganov Academy, Moscow
1964–1969
While studying, he simultaneously makes commercial works to earn a living
1966
Sees the Giacomo Manzù exhibition in Moscow at the Russian Academy of Art
1967
Participates in the All-Union Youth Art Exhibition
1969
Graduates from the Stroganov’s Department of Monumental and Decorative Sculpture
1972
Participates in The Sculpture of Small Forms: An All-Union Exhibition, Moscow
1973
Joins the Union of Artists of the USSR
1975
Displays work in the Beekeeping Pavilion of Moscow’s permanent Exhibition of Economic Achievements, Moscow
Installs memorial to poet Ognyan Naidov-Zhelezov in Knezha, Bulgaria
1977
Ceremonial opening of WWII memorial Laurel Wreath in Novokuznetsk upon completion of Frangulyan’s sculptural reliefs
1977
Participates in the International Exhibition of Small Scale Sculptures, Budapest, Hungary
1982
Participates in The Grand Prix at the International Small Statuary Competition, Nyíregyháza, Hungary
1983
Builds foundry in courtyard of the studio at Zemledelchesky Pereulok, Moscow
1986
Shows work in The Moscow Sculptors Exhibition, National Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria
1987–1993
Designs and installs allegorical figures at the Russian Academy of Sciences (commonly referred to as “Golden Brains”), Moscow
1988
Receives Jury Prize at the International Sculpture Competition, Dantesco Center, Ravenna, Italy
1988–1998
Becomes permanent chair of jury for International Sculpture Competition, Dantesco Center, Ravenna, Italy
1990
Installs Crucifixion in St. Francis Cathedral, Ravenna, Italy
Participates in the exhibition 50 años de arte sovietico, Barcelona, Spain
1993
Solo exhibition The Sculpture of Frangulyan at the Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow
1998
Monument to Peter I, Antwerp, Belgium
Solo exhibition, Gallery Catherine Altin, Antwerp, Belgium
1999
Completes monument to poet Alexander Pushkin, Brussels, Belgium
Solo exhibition, Grand Place, Town Hall, Brussels, Belgium
Installs monument to pianist Svyatoslav Richter at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow
2001
Participates in the exhibition Jesus Christ in Christian Art and Culture 14th to 20th Centuries at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2002
Completes monument to poet, writer and singer-songwriter Bulat Okudzhava, Moscow
2003
Monument to Elizabeth Petrovna of Russia, Baltiysk
2005
Self-publishes the monograph Frangulyan Sculpture
2006
Solo exhibition Georgy Frangulyan: Sculptural Space at the Pushkin Museum, Moscow
Erects monument to Aram Khachaturian, Moscow
2007
Exhibits Dante’s Barque at the Cherry Forest Festival in conjunction with the 52nd Venice Biennale
2008
Installs funerary monument for Boris Yeltsin at the Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
2011
Completes monument to Joseph Brodsky, Moscow
Installs monument to Boris Yeltsin in Yekaterinburg
2014
Sculptural and spatial composition White City, installed near the Belorusskaya metro station, Moscow
2015
Installs monument to Albert Einstein, Jerusalem, Israel
Installs monument to composer Dmitry Shostakovich in front of the Moscow International House of Music
2017
Exhibition Five Dimensions, the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Completes Wall of Sorrow, a monument to the victims of political repressions, Moscow
2018
Installs memorial to writer Mikhail Bulgakov, Moscow
Participates in The Metamorphoses of Sculpture, Kolomenskoye Historical and Architectural Museum and Reserve, Moscow
2019
Solo exhibition at Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg
Inaugurates monument to Yevgeny Primakov, Smolenskaya Square, Moscow
2021
Installs memorial to architect Karo Alabyan, Moscow
2022
Completes monument to Samuil Marshak, a poet and one of the first Russian authors to write literature for children, Moscow