Vitaly Pushnitsky was born in 1967 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). In 1994 he graduated from the State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (the former Academy of Arts), and he studied simultaneously in the private studio of the artist Ivan Gurin. He has been a member of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists since 1994. Pushnitsky has received numerous Art grants (USA) and created public projects for different countries (Russia, India, Denmark, Norway and others). He participated in the 56th Venice Biennale (2015, National Pavilion of Mauritius), the Parallel Programme of the European Biennale of Contemporary Art MANIFESTA 10 (2014, St. Petersburg), the I and II Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2005, 2007), the Baltic Biennale (2006), and in a number of prominent international exhibitions. He has had solo exhibitions in the State Russian Museum (2002), the State Hermitage Museum (2006), the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2012) and the Aslan Chekhoev Novy Museum (2012, 2017, St. Petersburg). His works are in the collections of the State Russian Museum and the National Centre for Contemporary Art, in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow), The Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, in the museums of Kaliningrad and Novosibirsk, the Kala Art Institute (San Francisco, USA), the Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art (Gyeongju, South Korea), in private museums of modern art in Austria, Denmark, Russia, and in a variety of private and corporate collections around the world. In 2011, the publishing house Phaidon included him in the international list of key contemporary artists who define new perspectives in painting. Currently, the artist lives in St. Petersburg.
2020 BREATH. Erika Deák Gallery. Budapest. Hungary
2019 Growing. Painting. Alexander Gallery. Rose. Montenegro
2018-2019 Growing. Painting. pop/off/art gallery. Moscow
2018 Tribute. Painting. New Museum n. a. Aslan Chekhoev. St. Petersburg
2017 Tribute. Erika Déak Gallery. Budapest. Hungary
2017 Tribute. Art School Masters. St. Petersburg
2016 Expectation. Marina Gisich Gallery. St. Petersburg
2014-2015 Practical operations. RuArts Gallery. Moscow
2014 Point of view. Moon. pop/off/art gallery. Moscow
2014 INDEX 14. Savina Gallery. St. Petersburg
2014 INDEX 13/14. Ural Vision Gallery. Ekaterinburg
2013 Postponed Matters. Marina Gisich Gallery. St. Petersburg
2013 Points of View. Part III. ТК Galeria D’Art. Barcelona. Spain
2012 Points of View. Part II. New Museum n. a. Aslan Chekhoev. St. Petersburg
2012 Points of view. Part I. Erika Déak Gallery. Budapest. Hungary
2012 Time Mechanisms. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow
2012 Point. pop/off/art gallery. Moscow
2011 Birth Date. Sputnik Gallery. New York. USA
2011 True Blue Will Never Stain. Frantz Space Gallery. New York. USA
2011 Point. Korjaamo Gallery. Helsinki. Finland
2011 Exit. Marina Gisich Gallery. St. Petersburg
2011 Burn. Al-Gallery. St. Petersburg
2010 Scale Measurement. ТК Galeria D’Art. Barcelona. Spain
2010 Redeemed Light. Perm Art Gallery. Perm
2019-2020 Orienteering and Positioning. VIII Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. The State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
2019 Heroes of Our Time. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow
2019 Life After Life. Manege Exhibition Hall. St. Petersburg
2019 Beauty +/-. Manege Exhibition Hall. St. Petersburg
2019 Rooted to the Spot. Street Art Museum. St. Petersburg
2018 VDNH. Marina Gisich Gallery. St. Petersburg
2018 Exhibition of the nominees of Kuryokhn Award. Sergey Kuryokhin Art Centre. St. Petersburg
2018 Just Beneath Reality. Marina Gisich Gallery. St. Petersburg
2018 Breakthrough. Ekaterina Cultural Foundation. Moscow
2017 Structures. The Marble Palace. St. Petersburg
2016 Actual Drawings. Perm Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM. Perm
2016 Picture after Painting. Zurab Tsereteli Art gallery. Moscow
2016 Art Situation at PERMM Museum. Perm Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM. Perm
2016 Contemporary Russian Artists– participants of the Venice Biennale. Selected works. Manege Exhibition Hall. St. Petersburg
2015 Grounding. GROUND Peschanaya gallery. Moscow
2015 Art of Being Together. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow
2015 Promising of a Landscape. Perm Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM. Perm
2014 Another capital: Contemporary Art of Saint Petersburg. The Museum of Moscow. Moscow
2014 Ready for a Flight? Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow
2014 New Element. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow
2012 NOIR. Group Exhibition of Ruarts’ artists. RuArts Gallery. Moscow
2011 New Sculpture: Chaos and Structure. New Museum. St. Petersburg
2010 After trouble. Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre “Ploshad Mira”. Krasnoyarsk
2010 Kandinsky Award 2010. Exhibition of the Nominees. Central House of Artists. Moscow
2009 Russian Beauty. PRO ARTE. St. Petersburg
