Stanislav Shmelev

Dr Stanislav Shmelev is an award winning British photographer, selected as one of 120 world's best contemporary artists of 2021 by Arte Laguna Prize in Venice, Italy, painter, environmentalist and art historian. Educated in art history and drawing and holding a PhD in Ecological Economics (2003), MA in Photography from Falmouth University (2019) and being a 2021 cohort member at Global EMBA from London School of Economics, New York University Stern School of Business and HEC Paris (2021), Stanislav combines his interest in fine art and sustainability and expresses his admiration for the natural world through oil paintings and photographs, printed on aluminium plates. Passionate about green economy, nature protection and sensitive ecosystems, Stanislav creates evocative environmental landscapes inspired by his travels in Brazil, Malaysia, the UK, France and the countries of the Mediterranean. Formerly a member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, Senior Researcher at the Oxford University, and Visiting Professor at Universities of Geneva, Paris and Versailles, National University of Colombia, Stanislav devotes all his energy to the promotion of sustainability ideas both through the language of art and of science.
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LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS AND POLITICAL SCIENCE
2019-2021 EMBA Business Management and Sustainability

NEW YORK UNIVERSITY STERN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
2019-2021 EMBA Business Management and Sustainability

HEC PARIS
2019-2021 EMBA Business Management and Sustainability

FALMOUTH UNIVERSITY, UK
2017-2019 MA Photography
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, USA
2013 Sensing Place. Photography as Inquiry: Course with Dr Anne Whiston Spirn
DEBUT CONTEMPORARY, LONDON
2013 Contemporary Art Practice
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
2008-2013 Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford: Life Drawing Class
2009-2010 Wolfson College, University of Oxford: Life Drawing Class
CHELTENHAM SCHOOL OF ART, UK
2002 – Independent studies in Photography (Visiting Researcher at University of Gloucestershire)
HERMITAGE HISTORY OF ART CLUB, St Petersburg
1988-1993 Ancient World, Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance, Dutch Art, English Art, Russian
Art, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Eastern Art

ECOLOGICAL-ECONOMIC EDUCATION
PhD Saint Petersburg State University, October 2003
PhD in Ecological Economics supported by the European Commission INTAS PhD Fellowship Grant YSF 2001-1/234.

MSc Saint Petersburg St...

Solo Exhibitions
2019 ‘Magical Realism of Ecosystems’: The Other Art Fair, 4-7 July 2019, London, http://www.theotherartfair.com/site
2018 ‘ECOSYSTEMS’, British Pavilion, United Nations UNFCCC COP24, 10-14 December 2018, Katowice, Poland ECOSYSTEMS_PRESS RELEASE
2018 ‘ECOSYSTEMS’, Mathematical Institute of Oxford University, 12-30 November 2018, Oxford, UK: ECOSYSTEMS ECOSYSTEMS_PRESS RELEASE
2018 ‘ECOSYSTEMS’ book presentation, 50th Anniversary Conference of the Club of Rome, Italy
2018 ‘Magical Realism’, The Other Art Fair, Bristol, UK
2018 ‘Magical Realism’, Index 2018, Dubai, UAE
2017 ‘Magical Realism’, Press Conference, United Nations UNFCCC COP23, Bonn: UNFCCC Press Conference COP23 Bonn 2017
2017 ‘Climate Change Complexity’, British Pavilion, United Nations UNFCCC COP23, Bonn
2016 ‘Poetics of the Desert’, Prince Galitzine Library, St Petersburg
2015 ‘Objects Found on the Beach’, Fotonoviembre de Tenerife: UNFCCC ART COP21
2015 ‘Magical Realism’, Prince Galitzine Library, St Petersburg
2014 ‘The Search of the Exotic: An Ecological Art Approach’, Prince Galitzine Library, St Petersburg
2014 ‘Ecosystems’, OVADA Gallery, Oxford (March, 2014)
2013 ‘Brazilian Tales and Other Stories’, Department of Politics and International Rel...