Curriculum vitæ
Short Biography
Born in Odessa on August 24, 1965.
In 1981 he graduated from Odessa art school. He took individual painting lessons.
In 1993-1994, he attended courses at the George Soros National Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow.
Since 1990, he began his professional career as an artist.
Since 1991, he engaged in video art, the first video installation “Cleansing” in the gallery of Marat Gelman.
In 1992, he implemented the first pictorial project “Communion”.
In 1993, he showed the first performance of “Resuscitation of a still life” in the Odessa Literary Museum.
In autumn 1993, he took part in the international festival of performances in Lublin, in the gallery “Labyrinth”.
From 1995 to 2005 he was actively engaged in directing commercials and music videos, as well as producing visual effects in the film industry.
Since 2006, he has focused on his art projects in such areas as painting, drawing, sculpture, and video art.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020 “Look of the Sun: Aquatoria”, M17, Kyiv, Ukraine
2019 “Past noses”, Mironova Foundation, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 “Forever & After”, ArtCult, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 “Subtle Grounds”, Lavra Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 “Certain Conditions”, Hudpromo Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine
2014 “Soviet Mandala”, WINZAVOD Contemporary Art Center (Red Shop), Moscow, Russia
2013 “Soviet Mandala”, as part of the forum of art projects ART KYIV Contemporary 2013, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2013 “Inflorescence”, Frolov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2012 “Explosion Conditions”, Odessa Art Museum, Odessa, Ukraine
2012 “Explosion Conditions”, in the program of the 1st Kyiv Biennale of Contemporary Art, Taras Shevchenko National Museum, Kyiv, Ukraine
2012 “Explosion Conditions”, Pechersky Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2011 “Flickering”, Hudpromo Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine
2011 “Flickering”, Collection Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2008 “Fuji Golf”, Pestovo Golf Club, Moscow, Russia
2007 “Fuji-Golf. The Performance”, as part of the festival “Creative: Moscow: Cinema”, PROJECT_FABRIKA, Moscow, Russia
1994 “Last Autumn”, Gallery “School”, Moscow, Russia
1993 “Open Door Days”, Gallery “New Space”, Odessa, Ukraine
1993 “Open Door Days”, Gallery “1: 0”, Moscow, Russia
1993 “Open Door Days”, organizer: Soros Center for Contemporary Art, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
1993 “Artist’s Contract”, Gallery “Trekhprudnaya”, Moscow, Russia
1992 “Oblation”, organizer: Marat Gelman Gallery, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
1992 “Oblation”, Odessa Art Museum, Odessa, Ukraine
1991 “Purification”, Marat Gelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 “Salon of the Outcast”, Museum of the Navy, Odessa, Ukraine
2017 “Art/work”, Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2017 “100 Years, Crystal Carpets”, Erarta Museum of Modern Art, St. Petersburg, Russia
2014 “New Ukrainian Dream”, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2011 “Independent”, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2011 “Space Odyssey”, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine
2010 “Night at the Museum”, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia
2009 “Ukrainian New Wave”, National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine
2008 “Good-Bye, Crisis!”, Odessa Museum of Modern Art, Odessa, Ukraine
2003 “The First Collection”, Central House of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine
2002 “Ours”, Marat Gelman Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
2001 “Art Against Geography”, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
1995 “New Technologies in Art”, International Exhibition of Electronic Art in the framework of the 2nd International Forum “Third Reality”, St. Petersburg, Russia
1994 New Media Topia, organizer: Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
1994 “Several images created at IBM”, organizer: Marat Gelman Gallery, IBM, Moscow, Russia
1994 “Free Zone”, Odessa Art Museum, Odessa, Ukraine
1994 “The Space of the Cultural Revolution”, “Ukrainian House”, Kyiv, Ukraine
1994 “Light from the Darkness”, Tirs Museum of Modern Art, Odessa, Ukraine
1994 “Lovely Scary”, Tirs Museum of Modern Art, Odessa, Ukraine
1993 “Random Exhibition”, Tirs Museum of Modern Art, Odessa, Ukraine
1993 International Performance Festival REAL-TIME – STORYTELLING 93, Labyrinth Gallery, Lublin, Poland
1992 “Suspected Reality”, curators: Anatoly Gankevich and Andrey Kazandzhiy, Tirs Museum of Modern Art, Odessa, Ukraine
1992 “Summer”, Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine
1992 “Calm”, exhibition hall of the Union of Artists, Kyiv, Ukraine
Works are in collections:
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Erarta Museum of Modern Art, St. Petersburg
Odessa Art Museum, Odessa
Museum of Modern Art, Permian
In private and corporate collections.