Andrey Novikov

The beginning of everything is sensation.

Pure, uncluttered feeling allows you to ask yourself the right questions, which are fundamental to my art.
My eyes see reality, my thoughts shape experience, and my heart is like a compass directing my attention. Drawing is my method of experiencing the world. Pencil and paper enable me to be alone with the world, to converse with it, and to strive to understand it. Drawings, sketches, and drafts become a form of dialogue. On paper, I capture various images from real life that aid me in my subsequent work with canvas and oil, where disparate and contrasting elements converge. For me, this is a quest for the true essence of the world, beyond its three-dimensional space.

From my very first picture, I attempted to unravel the complexities of reality. I pondered: Who am I, and who are these people around me? Answering such questions requires understanding the context. Through the prism of my work, I perceived not only people but also the world they inhabit.
This environment was a product shaped by society, while simultaneously shaping the social world itself.

North Caucasus Federal University, Master of Fine Arts, 2008
Pyatigorsk Art College, Bachelor of Fine Arts, 2004

Selected solo exhibitions

2022 - Refraction/Kirilma, solo show, The Wall Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2022 - Cultural layer, solo show, Moscow. Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia
2022 - Soft and not really, solo show, Gallery K35, Moscow, Russia
2021 - Swimming is allowed, solo show of graphic, Art City People, Berlin, Germany
2021 - Let's go, let's go …, solo show of graphics, ChU-Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020- Sunstroke, solo show, Larin Gallery, Krasnodar, Russia
2019 – Sunstroke, solo show, Erarta Museum of Modern Art , Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2019 - Solo show, El, Saint Petersburg, Russia


Selected group exhibitions

2022 - On the wall. Summer 22, The Wall Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
2021 - Very beautiful exhibition, Zaryadye Park, Moscow, Russia
2021 - Maxim Boxer's art fair "Sphere and Kross", Peredelkino, Moscow, Russia
2021 - Golden Childhood. Games and Pranks, Ingallery, Moscow, Russia
2021 - Mountains. Heroes. Symbols, IFA and Russian Academy of Arts, Art Museum, Sochi, Russia
2021 - Alterglobalism, Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University, Belyaevo Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021 - Caucasian Riviera, Traveling exhibition IFA and Russian Academy of Arts Sochi/Moscow, Russia
2020 - Exhibition of seven collec...