Anton Semakin

Born in 1979 in Perm, Anton Semakin graduated from the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture with a degree in Painting. The artist currently lives and works in Moscow.

Interdisciplinary artist, illustrator, and video game designer, Semakin inquires into the subjects of memory, self-reflection, history, and the post-Soviet everyday using the visual devices of art prints, including a concise palette and printing defects imitated through painting methods. The colour scheme of his works often features darker hues, with the resulting image seemingly dissolving in the pictorial space. By combining these techniques, Semakin expertly conveys the atmosphere of vanishing eras whose visual patterns still stand strong but gradually grow fainter.