Steamship at Night Painting

In the ratings of the International Data Bank of Modern Art, Vladimir Fomin is listed among the ten top artists of Russia. Television documentaries about Fomin have been produced in the USA, Germany, Finland, Sweden, Norway, and Russia. His works adorn the pages of hundreds of publications totaling more than million copies, are displayed on the Internet on more than 100 web sites, and are included in dozens of art CDs. More than 1000 of his works are in the permanent collections of museums in Russia, Finland, and Norway, and in private collections, art galleries, and cultural centers around the world, including the Russian Museum, Art Museum of the Republic of Karelia, Tomsk Regional Museum, Museum of the Khanty-Mansiisk Region, art museums in Riihimaki, Ioensuu, Juvjaskjulja, France, Denmark and Mikkeli; The Finnish National Hunting Museum, the Henrik Ibsen Museum (National Museum of Norway), as well as in the collections of the Government of the City of Moscow and the diplomatic missions of Russia, the France, the Denmark, the United States, and Finland. Fomins art is studied in colleges and universities in the United States, Hungary (from 1999), Finland, Russia (from 2000), and Norway (from 2002). Vladimir Nikolaevich Fomin was born in Tomsk, Siberia, on January 14, 1963. In 1989, he graduated from the Krasnoselsky Jewelry Institute. From 1984 to 1992, he honed his skills, learning from the native artists of Central Russia and studying applied arts of the Finno-Ugric peoples of Siberia and Northern Russia. Early in his career, he exhibited his works on large cruise ships of many countries. Since 1992, he has lived and worked in Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia. In the past twenty years, Fomin has created more than 15 series of paintings and drawings and exhibited them in more than 40 one-man shows in museums and galleries of various countries, including 14 in Finland, 3 in Sweden, 3 in Norway, 5 in Germany, 1- in France, and 5 in the United States. The artists paintings illustrate the encyclopedia World Mythology published in London in 2004 and 2005, and in 7 books printed between 2006 and 2011 by the American, Finnish, and Russian presses. In 1995, Fomin participated in the prestigious Corel World Design Contest of computer-generated graphic art held at the National Center of the Arts in Ottawa, Canada.