Lusik Aguletsi was a Nakhichevan-born Armenian painter, ethnographer, and Honored Cultural Worker of Armenia.
In 1953, Aguletsi’s family moved to Yerevan. In 1963-1967, she studied at the Panos Terlemezyan Art College of Yerevan. During her studies, she was awarded a special prize by the “Avangard” newspaper. She was a member of the Artists’ Union of Armenia from 1974.
Lusik Aguletsi’s paintings are in museums and private collections abroad. In addition to painting, Aguletsi was an active ethnographer. She collected weapons, costumes, decorations, and ancient jars. Some of them were brought from her native Agulis and the rest from different corners of Western and Eastern Armenia.
Lusik Aguletsi died on July 13, 2018, at the age of 72.

Exhibitions:
From 1968, Aguletsi participated in various republican exhibitions in Armenia and abroad.

Solo exhibitions:
1996 National Gallery of Armenia
1997 Stepanakert
1997 “Mkrtchyan” exhibition hall
1999 Greece, Thessaloniki

Group exhibitions:
1977 Paris
1977 USA
1978 Germany
1981 Iraq
1983 Los Angeles, Detroit, Toronto, Montreal
1985 Moscow
1986 Japan
1987 Greece
1989 “Armenian Artists to the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund”, National Gallery of Armenia
1994 Belgium, Normandy, France
1995, 1997 Symposium in Artsakh
1998 “Contemporary Art on the Threshold of the 21st Century”
2003 Minsk, exhibition dedicated to the Independence Day of Armenia
2003 Exhibition dedicated to the “Armenia-Diaspora” conference

Awards and prizes:
1967 Award at the Transcaucasian Exhibition
1968 The first prize of the exhibition of women artists
1975 Prize of the Academy of Fine Arts of the Moscow All-Union Exhibition
Diploma of the RA Ministry of Culture
Diploma of Yerjan Municipality
2003 Award for preserving universal values by the Mesrop Mashtots Cultural Center
2010 Movses Khorenatsi medal
2011 Lusik Aguletsi’s book “Relics of the Past” won the main prize at the 4th Republican Book Art Awards, and also won the first prize in the “Book of Art” category of the CIS International Book Awards.
2014 Honored Cultural Worker of Armenia
2014 Gold medal of the mayor of Yerevan