Arto Tchakmakchian RCA (Armenian: Արտո Չաքմաքչյան, (26 June 1933 – 1 October 2019) was a Canadian-Armenian sculptor and painter, a member of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts.

Arto was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1933 and studied at Nubarian National College in Heliopolis, then in 1946 his family repatriated to Yerevan.

Won first prize for his composition "Monument to the Victims of Hiroshima in a competition organized by Moscow Peace Committee.

In 1969 he was recipient of the Armenian Youth Union golden medal for his works Mother and Arno Babajanyan which were purchased by the State Tretiakov Gallery in Moscow.

The same year Tchakmakchian appeared in Mikhail Vartanov's suppressed film The Color of Armenian Land along with Sergei Parajanov (imprisoned in 1973) and Minas Avetisyan (assassinated in 1975).