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Peter Belyi 
Valery Chtak 
Dubossarsky - Vinogradov 
Group Exhibition 
Dmitry Kawarga 
Vladimir Kustov 
Andrei Molodkin 
Ivan Plusch 
Arsen Savadov 
Sergei Serp 
Yuri Shabelnikov 
Yuri and Konstantin Shamanov (aka the Chapman brothers) 
Stephen j Shanabrook 
Evgeny Yufit 


1959 Born in Taganrog, Russia
1977-1979 Rostov State Pedagogical Institute, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
1979-1982 Grekov Art School, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
1982-1995 Teaches at the Taganrog Art School
1987 Member of the Art or Death Movement
1990-1991 Artist and stage director at the Chekhov Drama Theatre, Taganrog, Russia

Since 1995 the artist lives and works in Moscow, Russia


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009
The End, Galerie Orel Art, Paris, France

2007
Esoteric Football, Arterium Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2006
In the Name of Rembrandt, Reflex Gallery, Art Strelka, Moscow, Russia
Requiem à la volonté, Galerie Orel Art, Paris, France

2005
15 years ago I was still painting, ARTStrelka Projects, Moscow, Russia

2004
To the Soldiers of Labour, M. Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2003
On the Bones (installation), Guelman Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
To the Soldiers of Labour, Art Moscow, Moscow, Russia

2000
Mysteria-Beef, M. Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia

1999
Pushkin is always with us, Dar Gallery, Moscow, Russia

1998
The Gold Fund (with Yuri Fesenko), Art Manège, Moskovskaya Palitra, Moscow, Russia
The Mausoleum: A Ritual Model (with Yuri Fesenko), Dar Gallery, Moscow, Russia

1995
Fuocoso (with Valery Koshlyakov), M. Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Necroacademy, Childrens’ Art School, Chekhov Lyceum, Taganrog, Russia
Two Offerings, Bitter and Sweet (with A. Kislyakov), Taganrog, Russia

1993
In New Light, Trekhprudny Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Bogudon School, Gallery Velta, Moscow, Russia


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009
Good News!, Orel Art UK, London, UK

2008
Thaw: Russian Art from Glasnost to the Present, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
This is not food, ERA Foundation, Moscow, Russia

2007
East/West, Galerie Orel Art, Paris, France
SWAB Art Fair, Galerie Orel Art, Barcelona, Spain
Thaw, 15th Anniversary of Guelman Gallery, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

2006
ART ATTACK! (Russian Contemporary Art) Galerie Orel Art, Paris, France
Russian 2, Bad News from Russia, White Box Gallery, New York, USA

2005
Unsigned, ARTStrelka Projects, Moscow, Russia
Russian Pop Art, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Portrait of a Face, M. Guelman Gallery, Centre for Contemporary Arts, M’ARS, Moscow, Russia

2004
Moscow–Warsaw / Warsaw–Moscow, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia

2003
We – They, M. Guelman Gallery, ArtMoscow, Moscow, Russia

2002
Melioration, Festival of Contemporary Art, Pirogovo, Russia
On a Routine Basis, Dmitry Semenov Gallery, St Petersburg, Russia

2001
Characteristic and non-characteristic, Baumanskaya 13, Moscow, Russia
Warhol Connections, M. Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Poor Art, Kalashnikov Center, Izhevsk, Russia
Art vs. Geography, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

1999
Apple Museum, Dar Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Museum of the USSR, Sakharov Museum, Moscow, Russia

1998
Good shoes to give away, Dar Gallery, Moscow, Russia

1996
Unforgettable (with D. Aronov et K. Zvezdochetov), Solyanka Exhibition Hall, Moscow
Compromise Material, M. Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia

1992
Still Life, Velta Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Artist and the Book, Trekhprudny Gallery, Moscow, Russia


SCENOGRAPHY

1992
Restricted Area Festival, Rostov-on-Don

1991
Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland, The A.P. Chekhov Drama Theater, Taganrog
Festival Closed Zone, Rostov-on-Don

1990
Jean Genet Les Bonnes, Sunday School Theater-Studio, Taganrog
Bleaz, The A.P. Chekhov Drama Theater, Taganrog

1989
Festival Tagan-Rock


COLLECTIONS


State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia

Private collections in Moscow, London, Rome, Chicago and Paris