Yuriy Samsonov

Yury Samsonov was born in Krasnodar in 1956.

Lived in Vladivostok, Irkutsk, Ulyanovsk and Moscow.

Since 1989 lives and works in Krasnodar.

Since 2002  a member of Russian Union of Artists.

Education

• 1979 – graduated from the Department of Architecture at the Far Eastern State Technical University in Vladivostok
• 1984 to 87 – studied at the postgraduate centre of The Research Institute of Technical Aesthetics (VNIITE), major in "Art History", Moscow

Main exhibitions

• 1990 – Regional Exhibition "South of Russia-1990", Regional Exhibition Hall, Krasnodar
• 1994 – Solo exhibition "Two different artists", Regional Exhibition Hall, Krasnodar
• 1995, 1996, 1997 – International Festival of Contemporary Fine Arts, Art Museum, Sochi
• 1997 – Regional Exhibition "Disturbing the peace", Regional Exhibition Hall, Krasnodar
• 1997 – Group exhibition "Facade-2", Art Museum, Krasnodar
• 1998 – Group exhibition "Facade-3", Art Museum, Krasnodar
• 1998 – Group exhibition "Russians are coming", Regional Museum, Rostov-on-Don
• 1999 – Festival of Contemporary Fine Arts of the North Caucasus, Regional Exhibition Hall, Krasnodar
• 2001 – Group exhibition "Krasnodar-Sochi. Contemporary art ", Regional Exhibition Hall, Krasnodar, Art Museum, Sochi.
• 2007 – Solo exhibition "Road to Mezmay", Regional Exhibition Hall, Krasnodar
• 2007 – Solo exhibition "The Other", "Yug" Gallery, Krasnodar
• 2007 – "Biennale-2007", The 8th Regional Professional Competition of Art Works, Krasnodar Regional Exhibition Centre
• 2011 – Solo exhibition "Geometric garden-bed", Cicada Gallery, Krasnodar
• 2012 – Personal exhibition "Climbing to the Messo or an experience of immersing into abstraction", Art Museum, Krasnodar
• 2013 – Group exhibition "Heirs of Russian avant-garde in the Kuban region", Regional Exhibition Hall, Krasnodar
• 2013 – Group exhibition "Re-forma", Cicada Gallery, Krasnodar
• 2013 – Group exhibition "Earth", Regional Exhibition Hall, Krasnodar
• 2013 – Group exhibition "Contemporary Art of Kuban", Art Museum, Sochi
• 2013 – Group exhibition "Bread", Rizzordi Fund, St. Petersburg
• 2013 – Group exhibition "The Edge", Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg

Collection

• F. Kovalenko the Krasnodar Regional Art Museum
• Krasnodar Regional exhibition hall of Fine Arts
• Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg
• Private collections in Russia, Poland, France and Germany