Michael Novokshchennyy

Painter, graduated in the Russian State Repin Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg.

My personal research in creativity is in contemplation the limits of artistic practices in culture. It is an attempt to find a way of expression that would make artistic action be free. I am interested in the physical and mental borderline states of people, moments of transformation in society and in living and inanimate nature, as well as the properties of natural surfaces and boundaries of environments that produce illusion and distortion in the human mind.
My paintings is always associated with movement. I try to work in such a way as to be fully exist in creative process with my mind, soul and body. I try to move away from personal content in my work in order to gain a fresh look, I look at the works of the great artists of the past to find new approaches, I observe interactions and transformations in nature in order to find true spontaneity. I strive to make the skills and techniques completed enough to go into the background and open the field for real experiment.

Since 1995 paintings have been exhibited in Russia, Europe and the USA, including personal exhibitions.
The artworks are in corporate collections of Benetton Group, Honeywell,...

1977 – 1982 – art school Severouralsk.
1982 – 86 – High Art School Krasnoturinsk.
1991 – 95 – Russian State Repin Academy of Arts, Faculty of graphics (Prof. VAVetrogonsky, VG Starov) – St. Petersburg.

2020 – «Insight» dual exhibition with sculptor Vadim Kirillov by Must Art Gallery in Moscow City, Moscow.
2018 – Personal exhibition «Movement in Reflection» Moscow, Renaissance Monarch Centre Hotel
2016 – Personal exhibition «Body language» Art-Kremlin gallery, Moscow.
2015 – Personal exhibition «Wings-Movement in Nature» at the Zoological Museum of St. Petersburg-with the support of the English Club / Department of Entomology
2014 – «Imago Mundi» alla Biennale d'arte di Dakar
2012 – Personal exhibition «Wings & Shapes», World Gallery, Paris - Nocturne Rive Droite
2008 – 2017 - Participation and successful sales in more than 10 auctions and charity auctions in collaboration with International Women Club.
2007 – «Movement of Light» , LG Gallery Moscow
2007 – Participation in international charitable projects Lowe-That-You. Moscow, State Gallery of Modern Art, «Phoenix»
2006 – «Christmas Exhibition» (with B. Babanin, E. Anikonov, A. Votsmushem, M. and B. Semensky). Ukraine, Sevastopol, gallery «Green Pyramid»
2000 – Art Expo, New York, USA
1999 – Bayer Caravan Art Show, Philadelphia, USA
1999 – a series of art exhibitions in the gallery Pink Bridge Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
1998 – Moscow International Art Salon «CHA-...