Oleg Komov

Sculptor, graphic artist, teacher. Born in the family of a builder called Konstantin Komov in Moscow (1932). Studied at the 1905 School of Art in Moscow (1948–53) and under Nikolai Tomsky at the Vasily Surikov Institute of Art in Moscow (1953–59). Member of the Union of Artists (1959), board member (from 1968). Winner of the Ilya Repin Prize (1974) and the State Prize (1981). Corresponding member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1975), People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1987), full member of the Academy of Arts of the USSR (1988). Taught sculpture at the Vasily Surikov Institute of Art in Moscow (from 1988), professor (from 1992). Died at the age of sixty-two in Moscow and buried at Kuntsevo Cemetery (1994). Contributed to exhibitions (from 1957), including Times of Change: Art in the Soviet Union (1960–85) at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2006).