Rinat Voligamsi (1968-)

Rinat Voligamsi was born in 1968 in Yermolaevo, a small village in the Kuyurgazinskiy District in the southern Urals of Russia. Interested in art and painting from a young age, Voligamsi entered the Ufa State Technological University in the Architecture Department in 1984 after years of self-tutelage. In 1988 due to conscription, he was recruited into the Russian army, interrupting his studies. He graduated the following year, in 1989, and began exhibiting. In 1994 he was awarded the State Prize of Russia, for excellence in the Arts. He began to gain international attention in 2006 with his provocative Unofficial Album, which recounts a parallel and fictitious biography of Vladimir Lenin and his twin brother Sergei.

Voligamsi’s work can be found in many important public and private collections including: The Omsk M. A. Vrubel Museum of Fine Arts, Omsk, Russia; The M. B. Nesterov Republican Art Museum, Bashkortostan Republic, Russia; Krasnoyarsk Cultural-Historical Museum Complex, Krasnoyarsk, Russia; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow; Erarta, Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2011     Exhibition Art vs. Geography, Solo Exhibition, Moscow MOMA (Museum of Modern Art Moscow), Moscow, Russia;

2011     Showcased in the art fair Art Moscow, Green Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia;

2011     Solo exhibition in the Biennale Museum, Krasnoyarsk, Russia;

2011     Unofficial album., Solo Exhibition, Gallery Green Art, Premi. Russia;

2011     White Nights, Exhibition, Premi Central Museum, Premi, Russia;

2010     After a Disaster. Krasnoyarsk Cultural-Historical Museum Complex, Krasnoyarsk, Russia;

2008     An Unofficial Album, a retrospective in the National Museum, Ufa, Russia;

2007     ‘Me, Myself, and I’ Again. Miras Gallery, Ufa, Russia;

2007     People. Conversations. Flies. CHA Gallery, Moscow, Russia;

2007     Take the Flag in your Hands!  Square Gallery, Omsk, Russia;

2002     Rinat Voligamsi, Amadeus Art Gallery, London, UK;

2001     Solo exhibition, CHA, Moscow, Russia;

2000     Solo exhibition, Miras Gallery, Moscow, Russia;

1999     Solo exhibition, Maximum Gallery, Ufa, Russia;

1999     Solo exhibition, New Gallery, Ufa, Russia;

1999     Solo exhibition, Gallery Maximum, Ufa, Russia;

1999     Solo exhibition, New Gallery, Ufa, Russia;

1995     Solo exhibition in Gosudarstvennyĭ Museum, Zaloust, Russia.

Selected Group Shows and Art Fairs:

2011     THE FACE, An Evolution of Portraiture in photography, Shown in Novosibisk, Krasnoyarsk, Ekaterinburg, Omsk, Chernabelsk, SPB, Paris;

2009     Art Moscow, Moscow, Russia;

2008     Group Exhibition, Tunguska Substance. Krasnoyarsk Cultural-Historical Museum, Krasnoyarsk, Russia;

2008     S. Krasnov and his friends. The Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russia;

2008     Group exhibition at the Ravenscourt Galleries, Moscow, Russia;

2007     Art-Manege, Moscow, Russia;

2007     Art Moscow, Moscow, Russia;

2006     Art Miami, Miami, USA;

2006     Art Palm Beach, Palm Beach, USA;

2006     Art Moscow, Moscow, Russia;

2005     London Art Fair, London, UK;

2004     Paris Autumn Salon, Paris, France;

2004     London Art Fair, London, UK;

2003     Art-Manege, Moscow, Russia;

2002     Artists of Bashkortostan. Russian Art Institute, Moscow, Russia;

2001     Art-Manege, Moscow, Russia;

2000     Art-Manege, Moscow, Russia.

Selected Public and Private Collections:

The Omsk M. A. Vrubel Museum of Fine Arts, Omsk, Russia;

The M. B. Nesterov Republican Art Museum, Bashkortostan Republic, Russia; Krasnoyarsk Cultural-Historical Museum Complex, Krasnoyarsk, Russia; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow;

Erarta, the Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art, St Petersburg.