Vitaly Pushnitsky

Vitaly Pushnitsky

Vitaly Pushnitsky, 1967
Born (1967-07-07)7 July 1967
Leningrad, USSR (nowadays Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation)
Nationality  Russia
Education St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Architecture
Known for Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Installation
Awards Sergey Kuryokhin Award for Contemporary Art, 2012
Website http://pushnitsky.ru

Vitaly Pushnitsky (Russian: Вита́лий Ю́рьевич Пушни́цкий; born 7 July 1967, Leningrad, USSR) is a Russian artist based in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. He is internationally recognized as a painter, sculptor, graphic artist and as a creator of installations, art objects and multimedia. He is considered one of Russia's leading contemporary artists.

Biography

Vitaly Pushnitsky was born in 1967 in Leningrad, USSR. After leaving Leningrad Secondary Art School he studied at the Graphics Department of St.Petersburg Academy of Arts (1988—1994). Since 1994 he is a member of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists. From 2002 works and studies worldwide:

2002 — Kala Art Institute. New York, San Francisco, USA
2005 — Jawaharlal Nehru University. New Delhi, India
2007 — The Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico. Albuquerque, NM, USA
2012 — Cite International des Arts. Paris, France

Pushnitsky's personal exhibitions took place at the State Russian Museum (2002) and the State Hermitage Museum (2006)[1] in St.Petersburg, at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2012)[2] and others.

Collaborating with the major Russian and western art galleries Pushnitsky is conducting his own original exhibition project "Belka&Strelka" co-authored with an art critic and curator Dmitry Pilikin. Commonly the works of Pushnitsky are presented on the international art scene.

In 2011 the British publisher of art Phaidon Press included Vitaly Pushnitsky in the list of "115 artists working internationally who have been nominated by highly respected critics and curators for their outstanding contributions to recent painting".[3]

Museum Collections and Foundations

Works are also presented in the private collections in Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Holland, USA and Russia.

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