Andrey Chezhin

Andrey Chezhin was born in Leningrad in 1960. Graduating from the Leningrad Institute of Cinema Engineering in 1982, he simultaneously developed an interest in photography. 

1985 — joined The Mirror Photography Club

1987–1996 — member of TAK Group

1993 — member of Photopostscriptum Artist Association

1995 — joined the Union of Fine Art Photographers of Russia

1996 — joined the Free Culture Partnership

1998 — joined the International Federation of Artists (IFA)

1999–2005 — founder and member of the Board of the annual Autumn Photographic Marathon Festival 

Director of PHOTOimage Gallery and Drawing Pin Museum, a private contemporary art institution 

The artist holds to his credit 90 solo shows and 180 group exhibitions, both in Russia and abroad.

Selected solo exhibitions: 

• 1993 — I Am an Object, Photopostscriptum-Place Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 1993 — Self-Portrait in 366 Days, Saint-Marcellin, France

• 1994 — Visiting Bulla, 21 Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 1996 — 96 Photographs, Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 1996 — Andrey Chezhin, Teatro Gallery, Moscow, Russia

• 1997 — City-Text, Borey Art Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 1998 — A Dream (St. Petersburg — Warsaw), Mała Galeria, Warsaw, Poland

• 1998 — Kharmsiade & From the Life of Thumb-Pins, NONAME Gallery, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

• 1999 — Russian Lens on Washington. Andrey Chezhin: New Angles, District of Columbia Art Center, Washington DC, USA

• 2000 — St. Petersburg. Escher Series, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, USA

• 2000 — Trace of GULAG, NONAME Gallery, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

• 2000 — Retrospective 1988–2000, Galeria Z, Bratislava, Slovakia

• 2001 — Drawing Pin and Modernism, RSUH Museum, Moscow, Russia

• 2002 — Kharmsiade, Giedre Bartelt, Berlin, Germany

• 2002 — Sailor Dreams, Galerie 21. Století, Prague, Czech Republic

• 2003 — Transformation of Vision, NONAME Gallery, Rotterdam, the Netherlands

• 2004 — Hands, Mikhail Shemyakin Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2004 — Nevsky Baptistry, Vine Street Studios, Houston, USA

• 2004 — Self-Portrait in 366 Days, State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Moscow, Russia

• 2005 — The Escher Space, Central House of Architects, Moscow, Russia

• 2006 — Drawing Pin and Modernism, Visual Arts Gallery, Adirondack Community College, Queensbury, USA

• 2007 — Cross of Prussia / Königsberg — Kaliningrad / The Escher Space, Kaliningrad Art Gallery, Kaliningrad, Russia

• 2007 — The Escher Space, Da Vinci Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine

• 2009 — Kharmsiade, Х-МАХ Gallery, Ufa, Russia

• 2010 — I Love This City..., Sputnik Gallery, New York, USA

• 2010 — America by Eyes, Our Texas Russian Cultural Center, Houston, USA

• 2011 — Drawing Pin Museum, Dialogue Exhibition Hall, Novgorod, Russia

• 2012 — New York, New York (joint exhibition with N. Zarovnaya), Sputnik Gallery, New York, USA

• 2012 — Squares. A Conversation with Malevich, Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

• 2013 — From Within, White Cube Gallery, Omsk, Russia

• 2014 — Dialogue Between the Master and the City, Szczecin, Poland

• 2014 — Hommage to the Rouen Cathedral, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Gallery of the 19th and 20th Century European and American Art, Moscow, Russia

• 2015 — PUSH, DiDi Art Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2017 — The Escher Space, Red Art Centre, Novosibirsk, Russia

• 2017 — Drawing Pin and Modernism. Rouen Cathedrals, Novosibirsk Art Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia

• 2017 — The Escher Space, Bronze Horse Art Centre, Krasnodar, Russia

Andrey Chezhin’s artworks were acquired for the following collections: 

• State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

• The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

• Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

• The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow

• National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg

• ROSPHOTO State Museum and Exhibition Centre, St. Petersburg

• Photographic Collections Museum, Moscow

• Mikhail Shemyakin Foundation, St. Petersburg

• Yaroslavl Art Museum, Yaroslavl

• Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk

• Perm State Art Gallery and Photography Museum, Perm

• The Navigator Foundation, Boston, USA

• Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA

• Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, USA

• Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, USA

• Museo Ken Damy, Brescia, Italy

• William Hunt Collection, New York, USA

• Palladian Collection, New York, USA

• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

• The Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA

• Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

• The Hechinger Collection, USA

• Brandts Musseet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark 

• and other museum and private collections worldwide.