Aleksey Chizhov

Born in Leningrad in 1980, Aleksey graduated first from the School of Visual Arts of the Herzen Pedagogical Institute, and later from the Repin Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg with a degree in Painting. He currently lives and works in St. Petersburg.

Chizhov’s socially charged messages take the visually attractive form of academic paintings. The artist’s worldview is critical, reflexive, academically precise, and simultaneously highly relevant, offering a blend of realism and phantasmagoria.