Ivan Lukinykh

Artist Ivan Lukinykh is a dark horse. He carefully protects his private life, information about him is scarce, and only basics are known. He was born in Perm in 1978, from 1993 to 1996 he studied at the professional college of Perm № 4 (painting and graphics faculty), then commenced his studies at the Perm branch of Russian Academy of fine Arts and Architecture. Lukinykh dropped out after a year and turned into a self-taught artist. At the moment he lives and works in Perm being the only artist using hyper-realistic approach to painting in his native city.

Selected personal and group exhibitions

• 2012 – Streets. Singularity progresses, Erarta Gallery of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg.
• 2012 – (Un)Conditional Reality. New Art of Perm, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg.
• 2010 – GOP ART, Festival “Perm Live”, PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm.
• 2010 – Art-Perm 2010, Perm.
• 2010 – Myths and Legends of Perm the Great, Central Exhibition Space, Perm.
• 2010 – Real Art, ПRОЕКТ_FАБRИКА, Moscow.
• 2009 – Perm. Hyper-reality, Personal exhibition at Souz Art Gallery, Perm

Ivan’s works are exhibited at the museum of modern art “PERMM”, Erarta Museum and Galleries of contemporary art and also in private collections.