KOLESNIKOV Ivan Vladimirovich, artist
Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts (Department of the Newest Artistic Movements, 2009). Honored Artist of the Russian Federation (2012).
Education: Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts, diploma supervisor A.P. Krylov (1982).
Works in the field of contemporary art and graphic design. Curator of many major national and international art projects. Publisher of books and albums on contemporary art.
Participation in exhibitions and auctions:
1984–1989 Fifteenth, Sixteenth, Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Moscow Youth Exhibitions, Moscow;
1989 'Eidos', Moscow;
1989 'Youth of Russia', Moscow;
1989 'Kunst und Kosmos', Hamburg, Germany;
1990 Solo exhibition at the editorial office of the magazine 'Yunost' (Youth), Moscow;
1990 'Ganze-art-90', Deventer, Netherlands;
1990 'Madrid-90', Madrid;
1990 'Perestroika', Buenos Aires;
1991 'Paths Passed', Milan, Italy;
1991 ART MIF-91, Moscow;
1992 'Material Evidence of the Existence of Art', Moscow;
1993 ART MIF-93, Moscow;
1993 'Four from Russia', Palm Springs, USA;
1994 'Distortions', solo exhibition, Moscow;
1994 'Pro et contra', Moscow;
1994 'New Russian Art', Oklahoma City, USA;
1995 'After Concept', Moscow;
1995 'Mechanisms', solo exhibition, Moscow.
Works are represented in domestic and foreign museums and galleries, among them: Russian State Library; Vologda Regional Art Gallery; Kostroma State Museum-Reserve; Ivanovo Regional Art Museum; Tula Museum of Fine Arts; National Art Gallery 'Khazine' (Kazan); Library of the State Hermitage (St. Petersburg); Library of the Pushkin Museum; Moscow Museum of Modern Art; Collection of the Russian Academy of Arts; State Tretyakov Gallery; Kolodzei Art Foundation (USA/Russia); Sahart Foundation (Morocco); The Harriman Institute, Columbia University (USA); The New York Public Library (USA); The Library of Congress (USA); The Royal Mail Museum (UK); Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Oklahoma (USA). His works are also held in a number of other foreign museums, corporate and private collections, including collections of the New York Public Library, the Library of Congress, Columbia University, The Royal Mail Museum (UK), in the private collections of Baroness Margaret Thatcher and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (UK), and in private collections of Marie-Lucie Morin, François Cadier, Mark Richards and the Kolodzei Art Foundation (Russia–USA).
Regular participant in international biennales of contemporary art, all‑Russian and international exhibitions since 1999.