Mikhail Solovev

Mikhail Solovev was born on July 21, 1991, in Vladivostok, a remote eastern city of Russia, to a family of a police officer and a saleswoman. When he was five his father joined a religious sect and left the family. This fact ultimately influenced Mikhail’s art and themes of his paintings. Because of a mother’s new family, he had to live in a small 6-square-meter room and distance himself from them. For almost 15 years, he lived with these people like a stranger. He never talked to his stepfather and had problems with peers at school, so the only solution he found was to create his own world where he could feel comfortable. That is how he discovered philosophy and poetry, and then later painting and classical music. At the age of 15, he started to think, how could he express himself and leave a mark in history? Mikhail chose to paint because it corresponds to his perception of the world.

His development as a serious artist started after finishing a children’s art school. The love of painting turned into a profession. At the age of 15, he created his first lino print inspired by Goya’s series “Los caprichos”. In 2008, he got into the Vladivostok Art College and became a teacher of fine arts. After that in 2014, he entered the Ilya...

2014 – 2021
St Petersburg Imperial Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Painting

2008 – 2013
Primorsky Regional Art College, Department of Painting

2021
Joining the Union of Artists, St. Petersburg
2021
ACADEMIA, Union of Artists, St. Petersburg
2020
Autumn Rhapsody, Cabinet of Arts of the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg
2020
Autumn 2020, Union of Artists, St. Petersburg
2020
Here rests the classics, collective exhibition of graduates of the workshop of V. S. Pesikov, Villa Vitali, St. Petersburg
2019
STARYKH GALLERY scholarship holder in the scholarship program of 2019-2020, St. Petersburg
2019
Natural class, IEC St. Petersburg Artist, St. Petersburg
2018
Finalist of the Gateway International Painting Competition, USA
2018
The Fifth All-Russian Competition for Young Artists A Muse Must Work, Artmuza, St. Petersburg
2018
International Festival ART the Way, Astoria, St. Petersburg
2018
Summer practice, Titian Hall of the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg
2018
Exhibition-competition ZERO'18 in FLOORS. People’s Choice Award for the painting Syrian Children, St. Petersburg
2018
AMERICAN ART AWARDS, 1st place in category 38 RELIGIOUS OR SPIRITUAL, USA
2017
Youth of St. Petersburg, Union of Artists, St. Petersburg
2017
Copy Practice, Italian Hall of the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg
2017
By the Roads of Peter, conference hall of the Ministry of Foreign...