KUDRYASHOV Oleg

1932 (Moscow)

painter, graphic artist, author of art objects.

In 1950-1951 he studied at the Moscow Art School.

From 1953 to 1956 he served in the Soviet army, and from 1956 to 1958 he worked in the animated film studio in Moscow. Member of USSR Union of Artists since 1958.

In 1974 he emigrated to England, where he acquired fame. He returned to Moscow in 1997.

Kudryashov participated in the International Biennial of Engraving (Paris, France, 1976), European Triennial of Engraving (Grado, Italy, 1987). For many years the artist has collaborated with foreign galleries of modern art: a gallery of Robert Brown (Washington, USA), a gallery of Patrick Kremer (Geneva, Switzerland), as well as several London galleries.

Personal exhibitions O. Kudryashova conducted Acme Gallery (London, England, 1976), St. Paul's (Leeds, England, 1987), Art Konnekshen (Basel, Switzerland, 1989), gallery Roger Razmzeya (Chicago, USA, 1989) and many others.

Since 1974, more than 30 personal exhibitions of the artist, including in Russia: Exhibition of Prints and Reliefs in the Museum of Fine Arts. Alexander Pushkin (Moscow, 1992), CHA (Moscow: 1990, 1992-1993), in the Bryansk Museum (1999), as well as retrospective exhibition at the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, 1999), in the gallery "LeVal" (Novosibirsk, 2001).

range of creativity Kudryashova unusually wide: from the great graphics and triptychs polyptychs to exquisite miniatures, reliefs from paper to metal structures, from the grotesque figurativizma to lyrical abstraction.

central theme of creativity O. Kudryashova - "the former housing" - was destroyed or disappeared human nest. He is an infinite number of times represented his native home of an extinct, and in England was shocked opened the window overlooking the multi-storey houses demolished with caving walls and exposed the cells rooms. This plot is close to him until now.

Works Kudryashova stored in the collections of the State Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin, the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), Victoria and Albert Museum, Tate Gallery (London, UK), Boston Museum of Fine Arts (USA), Dresden national Galleries (Germany) and many other museums in the world.