Ivan Lukinykh

about the artist

Born in Perm in 1978, Ivan Lukinykh consecutively studied at the Visual Arts Department of Perm College of Education No. 4 and the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, also in Perm.

Ivan is the only artist in the Perm art community to pursue the rare and demanding genre of photorealism. Without criticising the society, he depicts various moments of the everyday city life. A viewer hypnotised by the hyperrealistic image will take some time to realise that Lukinykh’s paintings so accurately copying reality in fact represent an oneiric universe.

Nation-mannequins
2010