Konstantin Khudyakov

Born in 1945 in Tsaryovshchina, Saratov Oblast, Konstantin graduated from the Industrial Architecture Department of the Moscow Architectural Institute. The artist currently lives and works in Moscow, acting as Board Chairman at the M’ARS Center of Contemporary Art.

Until 1997, Konstantin Khudyakov worked in the traditional medium of oil on canvas painting, later fully transitioning to digital media which he views as the most adequate means to express his artistic vision. That said, in Khudyakov’s oeuvre, digital photography and image editing are only a part of a more complex system dominated by the visual, emotional, semantic, and social content. Essentially a visionary artist, he anticipated the advent of digital totalitarianism and the enslavement of reality by the glossy aesthetics propagated by the ubiquitous gadgets and oversized advertising structures flooding the urban realm.