ARKADIY PETROV
1940 - Born in the settlement of Shakhty Komsomolets, Donetsk Region, The Ukraine SSR
In 1957 - moved to Moscow
1959 - 1963 - Moscow Art College "In Memory of 1905"
1963 - 1969 - Moscow State Art Institute n. a. V.I. Surikov
From 1965 - has been taking part in exhibitions
From 1971 - member of the Union of Artists of the USSR
1988 - grant «Graphicstudio», Tampa, Florida, USA
Lives in Moscow
Solo exhibitions
2008 – «Paradise with the Kremlin», State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (catalogue)
2007 – «Made in Matyushino», pop/off/art gallery, Moscow
2006 – «Ten packs», pop/off/art gallery, Moscow
2002 – «Biblical verses», «Sol gallery», Moscow
2001 – «Regina» gallery, Petrovsky passage, Moscow
1995 – «Bodenschatz» gallery, Basel, Switzerland (with N. Tolstaya)
1995 – Central House of Artist, Moscow (catalogue)
1993 – «The dance ground», Central House of Artist, Moscow (catalogue)
1991 – «Barrack», House of Cinema, Moscow
1988 – Culture House of Moscow Electric Lamp Factory, Moscow
1984 – exhibition hall on Vavilova st., Moscow (catalogue)
Selected group exhibitions
2007 – MacDougall’s auctions, London, Great Britain (catalogue)
2007 – Sotheby’s auctions, London, Great Britain (catalogue)
2007 – Art Moscow. 11 International art fair, pop/off/art gallery, project «Contemporary Russian Art
in the Alexander Smuzikov Collection», Central House of Artist, Moscow (catalogue)
2006 – 2007 – «Alleys of culture, grass-plots of rest. Gardens and parks in Russian art of the XX century»,
«Kovcheg» gallery, Moscow
2006 – «Time of Change. Art in 1960 – 1985 in Soviet Union», State Russian museum,
St. Petersburg (catalogue)
2006 – Art Moscow. 10 International art fair, pop/off/art gallery, Central House of Artist, Moscow (catalogue)
2006 – Sotheby’s auctions, New York, USA (catalogue)
2006 – «Picture of the new century. Moscow painting of 2000s», Belgorod State Art museum, Belgorod, Russia
2005 – 2006 – «Sixth. Horoscope for 2006 in pictures», pop/off/art gallery, Moscow
2005 – 2006 – «Collage in Russia. XX century», State Russian museum, St. Petersburg (catalogue)
2005 – «Classics and Contemporaries», pop/off/art gallery, Moscow
2004 – «Art Manezh», exhibition hall CSKA, Moscow
2004 – Art Moscow. 8 International art fair, «Sam Brook» gallery, Central House of Artist, Moscow (catalogue)
2003 – «Moscow international salon «CHA-2003», project «Humane, too humane», Central House of Artist,
Moscow (catalogue)
2002 – «Twosome», State Russian museum, St. Petersburg (catalogue)
2001 – «Portrait in Russia. XX century», State Russian museum, St. Petersburg (catalogue)
2000– «Worker’s Movement», «Sol gallery», Moscow
1999 – «Idea of USSR museum», Academic Sakharov Museum and Centre, Moscow
1999 – «Heroes», Exhibition Hall «Novy Manezh», Moscow (catalogue)
1998 – «Gifts and Acquisitions», State Russian museum, St. Petersburg
1997 – «World of Sensual Things in Pictures», Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (catalogue)
1997 – «Art Salon 97», Central exhibition hall «Manezh», Moscow
1996 – «Galleries in the Gallery», State Tretyakov gallery, Moscow (catalogue)
1995 – International Biennale «Classic 4», Kortrijk, Belgium (catalogue)
1991 – «Washington – Moscow», Carnegie Library, Washington D.C., USA (catalogue)
1991 – «Contemporary Russian Painting», exhibition and auction, the Chicago Atenaeum, the Centre
for Architecture, Art and Urban Studies, 333 West Wacker gallery, Chicago, USA (catalogue)
1990 – 1991 – «Washington – Moscow», State Tretyakov gallery, Moscow
1990 – 1991 – «The Quest for Self-Expression. Painting in Moscow and Leningrad. 1965 – 1990»,
Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio; Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro,
North Carolina; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA (catalogue)
1990 – «Contemporary Russian art», Habsburg – Feldman auctions, New York, NY, USA (catalogue)
1990 – «Children’ portrait in Russian art from 17 century up to our time»,
State Russian museum, St. Petersburg
1990 – «Meeting», Davidson Galleries, Washington, USA
1990 – «Logic of Paradox», Palace of Youth, Moscow
1990 – «Moscow. Treasures and Traditions», Seattle, Washington, USA (catalogue)
1990 – «Transformation. The Legacy of Authority. Recent Art from the Soviet Union», Camden Arts Centre,
London, Great Britain (catalogue)
1989 – 13 Biennale des Ostsee, Rostok, Germany (catalogue)
1989 – «Dialogue. «Avant-garde Russe et Art contemporain sovetique»,
Centre Boris Vian, Les Ulis, France (catalogue)
1988 – «New Russians», Palace of Culture and Science, Warsaw, Poland (catalogue)
1988 – «Die Neue Freiheit der Sowjetischen Maler», Kunsthalle, Amden, Germany
1988 – «Artist and Contemporaneity», 2 Exhibition of the First creative association of the Moscow Union
of artists, Exhibition Hall, Kuznetsky Most st., 11, Moscow
1988 – Sotheby’s auctions, Moscow (catalogue)
1988 – «Contemporary Soviet Art», P.Ludvig museum, Cologne, Germany
1988 – ARCO 88, “Contemporary Soviet Art” project, galerie «De France», Madrid, Spain (catalogue)
1987 – «Akan» firm exhibition hall, Istanbul, Turkey
1987 – «Costakis» gallery, Athens, Greece
1987 – «Artist and Contemporaneity», 1 Exhibition of the First creative association of the Moscow Union
of artists, Exhibition Hall on Millionschikova st. (Kashirka), Moscow
1986 – «International Images» gallery, Pennsylvania, USA
1984 – «Theme» firm exhibition hall, West Berlin, Germany
Collections
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Art, Ekaterinburg
P. Ludwig Museum, Köln (Cologne), Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Norton and Nancy Dodge collection, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
«Graphicstudio», South Florida University, Tampa, USA
Aleksey Aleksandrov Collection, Moscow
Vadim Belyakov Collection, Moscow
Victor Bondarenko Collection, Moscow
Mekhman Chalabiev Collection, Moscow
Andrey Eremin Collection, Moscow
Boris Fish Collection, Moscow
“Novy” Foundation Collection, Moscow
Eugeny Nutovich Collection, Moscow
Vladimir Ovcharenko Collection, Moscow
Vassily Panchenko Collection, Moscow
Victor and Sergey Popov Collection, Moscow
Andrey Pospelov Collection, Moscow
Alexandr Smuzikov Collection, Moscow
Frauke Barow Collection, Cologne, Germany
Thierry Benois Collection, Paris, France
Diana Bill Collection, Paris, France – Washington, USA
Costaki Family Collection, Athens, Greece
Hamed Güran Collection, Istanbul, Turkey
Eric Degove Collection, Bruxelles, Belgium
Almug Heller Dejonkheere, Bremen, Germany
Pit Bogard H.Dessiling, Hague, Holland
Verner Löwe Collection, Cologne, Germany
Hans d’Orvill Collection, New York, USA
Erik Peshler Collection, Bern, Switzerland
Iohanna Ross Collection, Bonn, Germany
Petur Torsteinson Collection, Reykjavik, Iceland
William Tush Collection, London, Great Britain