Valery Mishin
Valery Andreevich Mishin is a Soviet and Russian painter, graphic artist, poet and writer.
Biography
Painter, graphic artist and printmaker. Graduated from Sverdlovsk Art School ; Department of Monumental Painting, Leningrad Higher Art School named after V.I. Mukhina. Member of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, Russia; St. Petersburg Union of Writers; International Federation of UNESCO Artists. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts.Member of Lestnitsa Group.
Exhibitor of nonconformist artists exhibition in the Nevsky Palace of Culture. Participant of more than 300 exhibitions in Russia and abroad: Warsaw, Ghent, London, Mainz, Mexico City, Paris, Stockholm, etc. Twenty personal exhibitions. Was published in samizdat as a poet and writer. Has illustrated over 50 books. Master of bookplate. Diploma-recipient of foreign exhibitions.
Project member: City as an Artist's Subjectivity.
Lives and works in St. Petersburg.
Museum collections
The artist's works are in the following museum collections. State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia:- Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts ;
- Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.. Library/ Artist's Books Dept;
- State Hermitage Museum ;
- State Russian Museum ;
- MISP, ;
- National Pushkin Museum ;
- State Pushkin Museum ;
- Dostoevsky Museum ;
- State Museum of the History of Saint Petersburg;
- Museum of Modern Art, St.Petersburg State University ;
- State Museum of Urban Sculpture ;
- Peterhof State Museum Reserve;
- Museum of Nonconformist Art, Pushkinskaya 10 ;
- MMOMA ; Kaliningrad State Art Gallery ;
- Belgian National Playing Card Museum ;
- Bristol Museum and Art Gallery ;
- Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University ;
- Gutenberg Museum ;
- Museum House of Humor and Satire ;
- Civic Museum of Crema, etc.