Boris Markovnikov

Painter, graphic artist, collagist, object artist, performance artist. Born in the family of Vladimir Markovnikov in Moscow (1958). Studied at the 1905 School of Art in Moscow (1974–78). Member of the Union of Artists (from 1983). Took up non-objective art (mid-1980s). Awarded a grant by the Union of Artists (1989–90). Founding member of Polygon (1990–96). Won a silver medal from the Russian Academy of Arts (2002), nominated for the Kandinsky Prize (2008). Lives and works in Moscow. Contributed to exhibitions in Russia (from 1983) and abroad (from 1988). Contributed to the XV–XIX Youth Exhibitions of the Union of Artists in Moscow (1983–90, first prize in 1986), First Creative Unification of Moscow Artists in Moscow (1987, 1988), Labyrinth at the Palace of Youth in Moscow (1988), Sofia Biennale of Modern Painting (1988, first prize), Sofia Triennale of Painting (1989, third prize), Neuvostoliiton Nuorta Taidetta at Turun taidemuseo in Turku (1988), Contemporary Soviet Art at the Galleri Belderskild in Copenhagen (1988), Moscow Artists in London and Glasgow (1989), Czerwone i bia?e: Wschodnia fala / Red and White: The Eastern Wave at the Hala Gwardii in Warsaw and the Galeria Dijkstra in Amsterdam (1989–90), Scientific-Technical Progress and Art at the House of the Artist on Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1990), Logic of Paradox at the Palace of Youth in Moscow (1990), Contemporary Moscow Artists at the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum in Tampa (1991), La terra ritrovata at the Villa Ormond in Sanremo (1995), Paths of Abstraction at Art Manège ‘97 in the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1997), Harmony of Contrasts: Russian Art of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century at the Russian Academy of Arts in Moscow (1997), Centenary of Sigmund Freud’s First Printed Work at the Russian Cultural Foundation in Moscow (2000), Abstraction in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2001–02), Space of the Object at the All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art in Moscow (2002), Counter-Evolution at the All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art in Moscow (2002), Moscow Abstraction: Second Half of the 20th Century at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (2003), Picture No. 1 at the A3 Gallery in Moscow (2005), Purest Abstraction ‘05 at the pop/off/art gallery in Moscow (2005), Classics and Contemporaries at the pop/off/art gallery in Moscow (2005), Collage in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2005–06), Adventures of the Black Square at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2007), Art Moscow 12th International Art Fair at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (2008), exhibitions of Polygon at the Kashirka Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1990), Palace of Youth in Moscow (1991), Eastern Gallery in Moscow (1993), Taganka Theatre in Moscow (1993), Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1994) and the Cultuurcentrum Gildhof in Tielt, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek-Bever in Brussels, Cultuurcentrum Berchem in Antwerp and Cultuurcentrum Kortrijk in Kortrijk (1995–96), joint exhibitions with Evgeni Dybsky and Gennady Voronov at the October District Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1988) and with Alexander Lisovsky at the 1.0 Gallery in Moscow (1994), performances at the artist’s studio in Moscow (1996, 1997, 1998) and one-man shows at the A3 Gallery in Moscow (1991), Velta Gallery in Moscow (1991), Galerie Francis van Hoof in Puurs (1993), Manège Gallery in Moscow (1997, 1999), Pangloss Bibliocentre in Moscow (1998), Fine Art Gallery in Moscow (1998), Angellicos Gallery in Moscow (1998), Rossini Gallery in Moscow (1998), L Gallery in Moscow (2001–02), New World of Art Magazine Exhibition Hall in St Petersburg (2001, 2004), pop/off/art gallery in Moscow (2007) and the Art Ru Agency in Moscow (2011–12).