Nikolay Cherednichenko

Nikolay Cherednichenko (b. 1958, Nakhodka) is a painter and sculptor working between Moscow and London. He came to painting late: his first work, made on 7 January 1991 with honey watercolour on hardboard, followed what he calls an "art fever" at the age of thirty-two. Painting has been his sole occupation ever since.

Working in oil with a palette knife, he builds dense, layered surfaces in which the city, the landscape and the flower dissolve into rhythm, texture and colour — an approach he describes as monovisual kinematic expressionism. Alongside painting he makes sculpture from construction foam, cork and wood, with a dry, surreal humour.

His work has been shown in London, Geneva, Zurich, Paris, Cyprus and Australia. From 2024 to 2026 he was represented by Galerie Fahid Taghavi, Geneva, which gave him a solo exhibition in 2024 and showed his work at Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London, in 2025. His works are held in collections including Perth Art Gallery and Mandurah Art Gallery in Australia and Kennedy Business Centre in the USA; more than 1,000 works are in private and corporate collections in ten countries.

"This is an artist one has to admire for his unflagging contribution to the global art world." — Anthony Fawcett,...

2025: Affordable Art Fair Battersea (Spring), with Galerie Fahid Taghavi, London, UK.
2025: "Time Capsule", retrospective, top floor of River Park Kutuzovsky (under construction), Moscow.
2024: "Le Temps des Cerises", two-person exhibition with ceramic artist Chloé Peytermann, Galerie Fahid Taghavi, Geneva, Switzerland.
2022: Swiss Art Expo, Zurich, Switzerland.
2022: Solo booth "Switch On Your Brain", Art Russia 22 fair, Moscow.
2021: "duende", solo exhibition, Cube.Moscow, Moscow.
2021: Solo booth "Joy Without Reason", Art Russia 21 fair, Moscow.
2020–2021: "Cities within the City", solo exhibition, President Hotel, Moscow.
2020: "Thirst for Life", solo exhibition, Muravyov-Apostol Manor Museum, Moscow.
2016–2020: Sabbatical — the artist stopped exhibiting to concentrate on painting.
2015: Series of solo exhibitions in Cyprus: Columbia Plaza Gallery, Limassol Marina, Maserati Centre, Home & Deco and Londa Hotel (Limassol); Elysium Hotel (Paphos).
2011: Art Paris, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
2009: Permanent display, Plein Air Gallery, Moscow.
2008: "Crystallization", Central House of Artists, Moscow.
2008: "Journey", International Art Foundation, Moscow.
1997: Kranex Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.
1995: Alexandr Gallery, Perth...