Yury Petrochenkov

Born: 1942, Almaty (Kazakhstan)

Graphic artist, porcelain artist. Born in the family of Vasily Petrochenkov in Almaty in Kazakhstan (1942). Graduated from the Leningrad Mechanical Institute (1966) and the Vera Mukhina School of Art in Leningrad (1971). Member of the Fellowship of Experimental Fine Art (1970–80). Worked as a designer for the RSFSR Art Foundation (1970s–90s). Lives and works in Russia and France (1990s). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1960). Contributed to Times of Change: Art in the Soviet Union (1960–85) at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2006),

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