
Mihran Hakobyan (born 1984 in Stepanakert, Artsakh) is an Armenian sculptor best known for the Wikipedia Monument in Słubice, Poland, unveiled in 2014 and the first monument dedicated to the online encyclopedia. His father, the sculptor Armen Hakobyan (1941–1990), died during the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.
Hakobyan studied sculpture at the Yerevan State Academy of Fine Arts from 2000 to 2006, graduating with honors. He then worked as a sculptor in Armenia and Russia and took part in several exhibitions in Stepanakert and Yerevan. He had been a member of the Artists Union of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic since 2001. In 2011 he joined an international sculpture symposium in Shusha. From 2010 to 2013 he studied Polish philology at the Collegium Polonicum in Słubice, and in 2012 he received a scholarship from the Kulczyk Foundation.
The Wikipedia Monument was commissioned by Krzysztof Wojciechowski, director of the Collegium Polonicum. It was unveiled on 22 October 2014 at Plac Frankfurcki (Frankfurt Square) and was funded by the city of Słubice with 62,000 zlotys.
Although he mainly works in stone, wood and bronze, Hakobyan has also made animated films, especially with plasticine figures. His cartoon «Зонтик» (Umbrella), based on a story by Leonid Yengibarov, won the audience award at the Short Film Fund in Moscow in 2013.