St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Architecture
Awards
Sergey Kuryokhin Award for Contemporary Art, 2012
Known for
Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, Installation art
Marina Gisich Gallery at Vitaly Pushnitsky' studio.
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.
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) in St.Petersburg, at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2012) 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".
Museum Collections and Foundations
The State Russian Museum. St Petersburg, Russia
Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Russia
The Museum of Contemporary Art ERARTA. St Petersburg, Russia
Novy Museum. St Petersburg, Russia
ArtLink. New York, USA
Chairman, Aldrich Museum of Art. New York, USA
Contemporary Art Museum art4.ru. Moscow, Russia
Freud’s Dream Museum. St Petersburg, Russia
Kala Art Institute. Berkeley, San Francisco, USA
Kolding Art Institute. Kolding, Denmark
Kolodzei Art Foundation, Highland Park, NJ, USA
Perm Museum of Contemporary Art (PERMM), Perm, Russia
Red Bull Collection, Salzburg, Austria
RuArts Foundation. Moscow, Russia
The Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre. Krasnoyarsk, Russia
The National Centre of Contemporary Art. Moscow, Russia
The State Kaliningrad Art Gallery. Kaliningrad, Russia
The State Novosibirsk Art Museum. Novosibirsk, Russia
Works are also presented in the private collections in Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Holland, USA and Russia.
Personal exhibitions
2013
Points of View. Part II. ТК Galeria D’Art. Barcelona, Spain
2012
Points of View. Part II. Novy Myseum. St Petersburg, Russia
Points of View. Part I. Erika Deak Gallery. Budapest, Hungary
Mechanisms of Time. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow, Russia
Point. pop/off/art gallery. Moscow, Russia
2011
True Blue Will Never Stain. Frantz Gallery Space. New York, USA
Point. Korjaamo Gallery. Helsinki, Finland
Exit. Marina Gisich Gallery. St Petersburg, Russia
Exhibition of Kandinsky Prize Nominees. Moscow, Russia
NightFall. MODEM. Debrecen, Hungary
Time Shadow. The State Museum-Reserve Tsaritsyno. Moscow, Russia
Exhibition of Kuryokhine Prize Nominees. St Petersburg, Russia
2011
Void. RuArts Foundation. Moscow, Russia
The Demise of St Petersburg. Name Gallery. St Petersburg, Russia
The Book of the Artist. The Museum of Contemporary Art ERARTA.
St Petersburg, Russia
Reverse Perspective, pop/off/art Gallery. Moscow, Russia (parallel program, 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art)
Private Collection Forum. Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia
Myth. Mashine. Person. Erika Deak Gallery. Budapest, Hungary
Doors. The State Russian Museum. St Petersburg, Russia
Black and White. Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia
10th Anniversary of Gallery. Marina Gisich Gallery. St Petersburg, Russia
2010
The New Sculpture: Chaos and Structure. Novy Museum. St Petersburg, Russia
Duel. RuArts Foundation. Moscow, Russia
Exhibition of Kandinsky Prize Nominees. Moscow, Russia
Doors Open Day: A Mansion – A Gymnasium – A Clinic – A Museum. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Russia
Black and White. Modernariat Gallery. St Petersburg, Russia
Always Other Art. Victor Bondarenko Collection. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Russia
2009
The New Sculpture: Chaos and Structure. Gallery on The Solyanka str. Moscow, Russia
The Russians. Ober Gallery. Kent, New York, USA
The Art about the Art. The State Russian Museum. St Petersburg, Russia
Silence. The Red Flag Factory. St Petersburg, Russia
Show Me a Hero. Calvert 22. London, Great Britain
Recycling. The State Hermitage museum. The National Centre of Contemporary Art. St Petersburg, Russia
Landscape. RuArts Foundation. Moscow, Russia
Distance. 8th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale. The Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre. Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2008
Exhibition of Kandinsky Prize Nominees. Moscow, Russia
Boris Iofan and The New Babel. Atelier №2 Gallery. Moscow, Russia
2007
The Age of Space. The A.S.Popov Central Museum of Communicationts. St Petersburg, Russia
The XX Century Art in St Petersburg. The Central Exhibition Hall Manege. St Petersburg, Russia
Something About Power. 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. The National Centre of Contemporary Art. L-Gallery. Moscow, Russia
I Need No Map. The Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House (Sheremetev Palace). St Petersburg, Russia
New Angelarium. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Russia
2006
Wake up! 3rd Baltic Biennale. Raumi, Finland
Space I. Vostochnaya Gallery. Moscow, Russia
Space I. Belka&Strelka Project. St Petersburg, Russia
Russia Fly By. Hungart-7. Salzburg, Austria
New Russian Avant-Garde. Exhibition Hall BurdaYukom. Munich, Germany.
Circle III. Belka&Strelka Project. St Petersburg, Russia
2005
Steps. Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India
Nimbus for the House. Kuhmalahti, Tampere, Finland
Light I. Belka&Strelka Project. St Petersburg, Russia
In a Memory of Newton. The Multidisciplinary Project. The National Centre for Contemporary Art. St Petersburg, Russia
I Click, Therefore I Am. M’Ars Gallery. Moscow, Russia
Human Project. Piterskie. 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Central House of Artists. Moscow, Russia
He Was a Tall Man... 100th Anniversary of Daniil Kharms. The Russian State museum. St Petersburg, Russia
Faces. M’Ars Gallery. Marat Guelman Gallery. Moscow, Russia
Collage in Russia 20th Century. The State Russian Museum. St Petersburg, Russia
2004
The Emperor Paul I: The Modern Image of the Past. The State Russian Museum. St Petersburg, Russia
Stair to the Sky. ART-Kliazma. Moscow, Russia
Silence. The State Novosibirsk Art Museum. Novosibirsk, Russia
NA KURORT. Kunsthalle. Baden-Baden, Germany
Mimicry. Artist’s Village. St Petersburg, Russia
2003
Touch Me. The Akhmatova Museum at the Fountain House (Sheremetev Palace). St Petersburg, Russia
The Space of a Picture — The Space of Reality. The Akhma¬tova Museum at the Fountain House (Sheremetev Palace). Goethe Institute. St Petersburg, Russia
Digital-Analog. New Countdown. Marat Guelman Gallery. Central House of Artist. Moscow, Russia
