[1] Jansem's artworks are internationally known, and are part of museum collections throughout France, Japan and the United States.

[2] The President of Armenia awarded Jansem a Medal of Honor for his “reinforcement of Armenian-French cultural ties.” Hovhannes Semerdjian was born in 1920 in Bursa, then in the Ottoman Empire.

He had individual exhibitions in Paris, New York, Chicago, London, Tokyo, Rome, Brussels, Lausanne, Beirut etc.

In Japan, two museums were built to honor Jansem′s work, located in Tokyo Ginza and Nagano Prefecture Azumino.

While living outside Armenia, you have made our country more recognizable, extending our nation's good name all over the world."