Anatoly Shumkin

Anatoly Shumkin was born and raised in Kazakhstan. After graduation from I.Repin State Academy of Arts he worked on the project "Ecce Homo". This project included series of genre paintings, scenes from Jesus life and portraits of his contemporaries. When Anatoly became a highly demand realist painter, he realized that standards of classical painting and a need to cater to the commissioner’s taste limited his potential.
You can watch a film about Anatoly and the project "Ecce Homo" if you type in Google search: "Film about artist Anatoly Shumkin Sintonia Art Project", "Ecce Homo Documentary".

During his traveling through Europe and the USA Anatoly explored the world of contemporary art finding new shapes and new opportunities. He found his own way of mixing academic art and unpredictability in techniques of modern art, new materials and tools helped shaped his new style. Anatoly creates his own world, transferring his imagination onto canvas, lots of experiments with new shapes and patterns. Anatoly is always looking for actual instant creative impulse, he turns the moments into eternity that lives in these unique art-objects.
You can watch a short video about Anatoly's first exhibition after he decided to do conceptual art i...

I.Repin State Academy of Arts

- 2019 exhibition "Metamorphoses", gallery "Beggroff gallery", St. Petersburg

- 2018 exhibition "Ecce Homo", Annenkirche, St. Petersburg

- 2017 participation in the joint exhibition of the finalists of the "Modportrait" competition in Barcelona and Zaragoza, Spain

- 2016 participation in a joint exhibition in the city of Ningbo (China)

- 2016 personal exhibition "The Way" in the hall of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists

- 2014 personal exhibition in the gallery "Current" (creative cluster "Artmuza"), St. Petersburg

- 2013 participation in joint exhibitions in Moscow (methodological exhibition "School", gratitude from the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts) and St. Petersburg (Festival "Friendship Bridge", awarded a diploma)

- 2013 personal exhibition in the gallery "Blue Living Room", St. Petersburg

- 2011 personal exhibition in the library of the Kirov Islands, St. Petersburg

- 2010 participation in the international traveling exhibition in China (Guilin - Naining - Liuzhou)

- 2009 personal exhibition in the gallery "Blue Living Room", St. Petersburg


- 2008 participation in a joint exhibition of young Russian artists in the USA, California, San Diego

- 2006 personal exhib...