Studied at Leningrad Secondary School of Art (1946–1953); the Repin Institute of Arts (1954–1961) in the Faculty of Painting under I. A. Serebriany. ARTISTS’ BIOGRAPHIES 635 Exhibited from 1960. Member of the USSR Union of Artists (1962), the Gruppa “Odinnadtsati” (Group of “Eleven”) association (1972), the St Petersburg Academy of Contemporary Art association (1995). Worked as a production designer at the A. A. Briantsev Theatre for Young Spectators, the Leningrad Comedy Theatre, the A. M. Gorky Palace of Culture, the Maly Opera and Ballet Theatre, the Experiment Theatre of Miniatures (1966– 1986); an artist at the Detskaia literatura (Children’s Literature) publishing house (1966–1991). Taught at Leningrad Higher College of Art and Design (1963– 1965). Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts (2007). Awarded the Silver Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts (2003), the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts (2012). Main collections: A. S. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, ROSIZO, Russian National Museum of Music, State Tretyakov Gallery (all Moscow), Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, S. P. Diaghilev Museum of Contemporary Art, St Isaac’s Cathedral State Museum, State Hermitage, State Literary and Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova at the Fountain House, State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, State Museum of Theatre and Music, State Russian Museum, Tsarskoe Selo Collection Museum (all St Petersburg), State art museums in Arkhangelsk, Astrakhan, Kemerovo, Kostroma, Vladivostok, Vologda, Yaroslavl and others; National Gallery of Armenia (Yerevan, Armenia), Art Museum of Georgia (Tbilisi, Georgia), Museum Ludwig (Cologne, Germany), Kunsthaus (Dresden, Germany), Museum of Fine Arts (Leipzig, Germany), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam, Netherlands) and others.

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