
Artist Statement
Art for me is primarily a way to speak from the first and third person at the same time. When a work is created, it becomes both a personal and impersonal statement that exposes the (cultural, political, social) structures of the surrounding reality.
With this approach, the idea is more primary than the form, so my work is realized in completely different mediums. I paint, create conceptual objects, shoot video art, tattoos and go out into the streets with street art projects.
Street art is the field of art in which my first (perhaps most famous) works were realized. But at the moment, street art is only one of my areas of activity. Along with the transition to other forms of art, I began to use new materials when creating works. In particular, when creating paintings, I went from spray cans and markers to acrylic and further to oil.
Art is not concrete works, but a process. Reality is changeable, and together with reality my approaches to fixing and displaying it change and mutate.
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Education
2009-2010
Foundation, Cambridge School of Visual & Performing Arts, Cambridge, England2012-2014
AFA, New York Film Academy, New York, NY -
Solo exhibitions
2019
Four rooms, "Chaynaya GURU", Kazan, Russia2018
They Just Consume, "Smena Gallery", Kazan, Russia2016
Young artist run free, "Shtab Creative Art Space", Kazan, Russia2015
First Time, "Pips gallery", Brooklyn, New York -
Group Exhibitions
2022
Don't recognize you, "Sevkable port", Saint-Petersburg, Russia
I put on pink sun glasses "Beriozka cultural center", Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Drawings on the walls, "3120 Gallery", Saint-Petersburg, Russia2021
III International Triennial of Contemporary Graphics in Novosibirsk,
"The Novosibirsk State Art Museum", Novosibirsk, Russia
Reflections Virtual Exhibition, “The Holy Art”, London, England2019
Sound of the city, "Gallery of modern art", Kazan, Russia2018
Another time, "Okno Gallery", Kazan, Russia2016
I see it like that, "Ink Gallery", Kazan, Russia
Tat it up, "Grumpy Bert Gallery", Brooklyn, New York2015
Muse, "Friday Studio Gallery", Brooklyn, New York -
Publications and Press
2022
Шило magazine, issue #12021
St.Art magazine, issue #6
BlueBee magazine, issue #52020
Business Online, Online interview2019
Enter media e-magazine, Online interview2018
Counterproductiv magazine, issue #62017
INDE e-magazine, Online interview -
Awards
2018
First place in a category "local documentary film" at Kazan international Muslim Film Festival
Watch: "Why am I doing this"