Karen Shahverdyan was born in 1969 in the village of Odzun in Armenia. In 1988, he graduated from the Art College named after Terlemezyan was born in Yerevan, and in 1995 completed his studies at the State Academy of Arts in Tbilisi. In 1989-1999 he studied at the graduate school of the State Academy, at the Faculty of Restoration of painting.

Since 1999, he has been living in Darmstadt, engaged in painting and graphics. Karen Shahverdyan regularly participates in international art fairs and exhibitions. His works are in private collections in Germany, Russia, the USA, Israel, Switzerland, France and Greece.

Being an experienced connoisseur of the styles and techniques of the old masters, Karen Shahverdyan uses a modern approach in which technical mastery is not an end in itself or the basis of artistic expression. In his interpretation, it is rather a tool with which new content is created in works of art. The artist departs from ordinary painting and experiments with real visual elements, with landscapes,