Biography
• Born on the December 10, 1960 in Moscow
• Studied at the Faculty of Psychology at Moscow Pedagogical State University in the name of V.I. Lenin from 1978 to 1980
• In 1985 he graduated from the Faculty of Easel Painting of the Correspondence Folk University of Arts
• In 1992 he graduated from the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the name of I. E. Repina
• In 1993 he became a member of the editorial board of the “Art Journal”
• In 1994 he founded the Institute in the name of Mikhail Lifshits
• In 2010 he won the Companion Prize
• Lives in Moscow

2018 XX century savage. Navicula Artis Gallery. Saint Petersburg
2017 Scary thoughts cleared in him. “Regina” Gallery. Moscow
2016 PDASPSINP. “Triumph” Gallery. Moscow
2016 PIZDETUSCONCRETUSI. Rosnano. Moscow. Russia
2016 PIZDETUSCONCRETUSII. ART4 Museum. Moscow. Russia
2015 Away from dust. “Triumph” Gallery. Moscow
2015 Rembrandt. Different angle. State Museum of Fine Arts in the name of A.S. Pushkin. Moscow
2014 Fugue. An attack of motor excitement with confusion and memory complications. Art Museum “Riga Exchange”. Riga. Latvia
2014 Life is hard, but fortunately short. “Triumph” Gallery. Moscow
2013 Chaotic Notes. Nina Lumer Galleria. Milan. Italy
2013 Genius needs an orgy. “Triumph” Gallery. Moscow
2013 There is nothing to be surprised at. Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art. Moscow
2012 Gondola. Art Museum “Riga Exchange”. Riga. Latvia
2012 Εἰκών. Marat Gelman’s Gallery. Moscow
2011 Russia is for everyone. Together with Victor Bondarenko. Tver Center of Contemporary Art. Tver CA. Tver
2010 Portraits of composers. Stella Art Gallery. Moscow
2010 In Our Days, Everything Seems Pregnant with its Contrary. Scaramouche Gallery. New York. USA
2010 Chaotic Notes. Taiss Galerie. Paris. France
2010 Artist and death. Rembrandt’s Drawings. Marat Gelman’s Gallery. Moscow
2009 Rembrandt’s Drawings. “Gridchinhall” Exhibition Hall. Village Dmitrovskoe
2008 Marat Gelman’s Gallery. Moscow
2006 For the correct movement of the wrist. Marat Gelman’s Gallery. Moscow
2006 Repeat, canon, return, deceleration, numbness. State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
2006 Thaw-Disgelo. Nina Lumer Galleria. Milan. Italy
2005 The excess of disinterested contemplation. Club Cinephantom. Fitil Cinema. Moscow
2005 The Deep Blue Colour Of His Skin Shows Just How Self-Absorbed He Is. Matthew Bown Gallery. London. Great Britain
2005 Everything I created before 70 doesn’t count. Marat Gelman’s Gallery. Moscow
2004 Talking about obscure brush moves. “FineArt” Gallery. Moscow
2003 I’m a stranger on this holiday of life. “FineArt” Gallery. Moscow
2002 Mom, Dad & Champions League. Marat Gelman’s Gallery. Moscow
2001 Mom, Dad and TV. Marat Gelman’s Gallery. Moscow
2001 The blind. Museum of Non-Conformist Art. Saint Petersburg
1999 Drill. Marat Gelman’s Gallery. Moscow
1996 Dilettantism in art. Marat Gelman’s Gallery. Moscow
1995 Mikhail Lifshits – 90th Birth Anniversary. State Center of Contemporary Art. Moscow
1994 Over black mud. “Regina” Gallery. Moscow
1993 60s: once again about Love. National Center of Contemporary Art. Moscow
1993 Portraits. “Regina” Gallery. Moscow
1992 How I became an artist. Laboratory of the Center of Contemporary Art. Moscow
1991 The little things in our life. “In Trekhprudny Lane” Gallery. Moscow

2018 The art of the 2000s. State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
2018 If our tin could speak… Mikhail Lifshits and Soviet 60s. Museum of Contemporary Art “Garage”. Moscow
2018 The apologia of misbelief. Multimedia Art Museum. Moscow
2016 Actual drawing. Modern Art Museum PERMM. Perm
2015 Grammar of freedom/five lessons. Museum of Contemporary Art “Garage”. Moscow
2015 The 90s. Yeltsin Center. Ekaterinburg
2015 Cinema of repeated movie. Center of Contemporary Culture “Smena”. Kazan
2015 Recycling Religion. White Box Gallery. New York. USA
2015 Balagan!!!. Contemporary Art from the Former Soviet Union and other Mythical Places. Berlin. Germany
2014 And yet there was Art! Leopold Museum. Vienna. Austria
2014 Actual drawing. State Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg
2014 Reconstruction 2. Cultural Fund “Ekaterina”. Moscow
2014 Really Useful Knowledge. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Madrid. Spain
2013 Reconstruction. Cultural Fund “Ekaterina”. Moscow
2013 Monday starts on Saturday. Bergen. Norway
2013 Unrest of Form. Secession. Vienna. Austria
2012 Christmas tree of Walter Benjamin. Volga branch of the State Center of Contemporary Art. Nizhny Novgorod
2012 John Cage’s experiments and their context. Cultural Fund “Ekaterina”. Moscow
2012 Arts of Voicing. Stuttgart. Germany
2012 Arts Santa Monica. Barcelona. Spain
2012 Grey. Brusov Art communication Gallery. Moscow
2011 Achromatism. Art Ru Agency. Moscow
2011 Artists of the world. Tenerife – Moscow. Art Ru Agency. Moscow
2010 Counterpoint, Contemporary Russian Art. Louvre. Paris. France
2009 History of Russian video art. Volume 2. Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art. Moscow
2009 Russian lettrism. Central House of Artists. Moscow
2008 Russian poverty. River Station. Perm
2008 Russian dreams. Bass Museum of Art. Miami Beach. USA
2008 The future is up to you. New rules. Vladivostok, Krasnoyarsk, Khabarovsk, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg, Samara, Krasnodar
2008 Thaw: Russian Art. From Glasnost to the Present. Chelsea Art Museum. New York. USA
2008 Places for Heroes – everyone is a hero for himself. Vianuova art contemporanea. Florence. Italy
2007 I believe. Center of Contemporary Art “Winery”. Moscow
2007 Competition for the projects of the monument to B. N. Yeltsin. ART4 Museum. Moscow
2004 Super woman. “FineArt” Gallery. Moscow
2004 Lifshitz for beginners. “SamBrook” Gallery. Moscow
2001 Iskusstwo 2000. Kunstverein. Rosenheim. Germany
2001 Russian madness – 2. Watermill. New York. USA
2000 Museum Quarter. Art Museum. Zelenogorsk
2000 Delicate, sweet taste. University library. Warsaw. Poland
1999 Crash landing. Moscow. Improvisation project – MegStewart. Moscow
1999 Ease of inspiration. Center of art. Neglinka, 14. Moscow
1997 Moscow – Uryupinsk. To Russia with love. Uryupinsk
1994 Identity. Center of Contemporary Art. Moscow
1993 Trioacoustico: Centrepourla Creation Contemporaine. Tour. France
1993 Art as power and power as Art. Central House of Artists. Moscow
1993 Conversion. Marat Gelman’s Gallery. Central House of Artists. Moscow
1992 Questions of Art. ХL Gallery. Moscow
1992 Apologia of shyness or first-hand art. “Regina” Gallery. Moscow
1992 Diaspora. Central House of Artists. Moscow
1992 About Transparency. Zimenki Village. Pioneer Camp in the name of Y. Gagarin. Moscow
1992 3rd International Istanbul Biennial. Istanbul. Turkey
1992 Moscow romanticism. Central House of Artists. Moscow
1991 Private lessons. Gallery 1.0. Center of Contemporary Art. Moscow
1991 Aesthetic experiences. Museum-Estate “Kuskovo”. Moscow
1991 Mama – Cosmos. “Propeller” Gallery. Profsoyuznaya, 100. Moscow
1990 Zen. “NaKashirke” Gallery. Moscow
1990 19th Youth Exhibition. House of the Artist. Kuznetsk bridge. Moscow
1990 Back and forth. Exhibition Hall of the Proletarsky District. Moscow
1990 Cultural rest. Exhibition Hall of the Proletarsky District. Moscow
1990 The traditions of Russian painting. Museum of Moscow History. Moscow
1989 Inexpensive Art. First Gallery. Moscow
1989 Beyond the Genre. Youth Palace. Moscow
1988 18th Youth Exhibition. “Manege”. Moscow
1988 Eidos. Youth Palace. Moscow

Museum collections and funds

The Museum of Modern Art. Sarajevo. Bosnia and Herzegovina
Museum of Arts. Valencia. Spain
Luigi Pecci Contemporary Art Centre. Prato. Italy
De Appel Art Centre. Amsterdam. Netherlands
Eastern European Museum of Modern Art. Ljubljana. Slovenia
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. New York. USA
Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’art Moderne. Paris. France
State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art. Moscow
Multimedia Art Museum. Moscow
State Center of Contemporary Art. Moscow ART4 Museum. Moscow
Stella Art Foundation. Moscow
Cultural Foundation “Ekaterina”. Moscow
State Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg
New Museum of Aslan Chekhoev. Saint Petersburg
Museum of Contemporary Art “Erarta”. Saint Petersburg
Kurgan Regional Art Museum. Kurgan

Private and corporate collections

Daimler AG. Stuttgart. Germany
BofA Securities. New York. USA
Collection of Vladimir Nekrasov. Moscow
Gazprombank. Moscow
Collection of Mikhail Alshibaya. Moscow
Collection of Pierre-Christian Brochet. Moscow

Dmitri Gutov. An attack of motor excitement with confusion and memory complications. Moscow, 2016
Dmitri Gutov. Life is hard, but fortunately short. Moscow, 2014
Dmitri Gutov. Genius needs an orgy. Moscow, 2013
Russia is for everyone. Project of Victor Bondarenko and Dmitry Gutov. Moscow, 2011
Dmitri Gutov. Rembrandt’s drawings and other metal works. Moscow, 2009
Valery Podoroga. Dyadochi. Moscow, 2001