Ilya Zharkov

Ilia Zharkov, Russian based contemporary artists and tattooer, currently living in Moscow.
“It’s always been challenging to me to describe my own art, as I consider it triggering and believe that the audience doesn’t need any clues to identify what they see.
In any case, the main point of my art is experimenting and irony.
I tend to combine things that you won’t find matching from the first glance, and create provocative stories out of them.
However, let my works to speak for themselves.”

I received my higher technical education at a Ukrainian University.

I have participated in 3 major exhibitions.
One of them was at the Central House of Artists in Moscow.


Several articles about my studio, my work and my art in general:

https://scene360.com/art/107281/heavenly-beauty-tattoo/

http://grademoscow.com/artpartvol2-ilyazharkov

http://hometattoo.ru/narkomfin

https://www.redbull.com/ru-ru/original-russian-tattoo-artists