Vladimir Shinkarev

Vladimir Shinkarev was born in 1954 in Leningrad. From 1974 to 1977 he took courses at Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design and Ilya Repin Leningrad Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1975 he started taking part in unofficial apartment exhibitions. In 1985 he founded The Mitki art group, which he left in 2008. He is also widely known as a writer and an author of a number of books, including the cult «Maxim and Fyodor» (1978-80). In 2008 he was awarded with Joseph Brodsky prize. His works are included in collections of State Tretyakov Gallery, Hermitage Museum, State Russian Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum (London, UK). The artist lives and works in Saint-Petersburg.