Alexey Rouman

Alexey Rouman was born on 19 October 1980 and spent his early childhood in a multinational military town of the former USSR, later moving to Tatarstan with his family. From early on, the future artist showed interest in drawing, graduating from a secondary art school and later earning a degree in design from the Naberezhnye Chelny Art College.

In the mid-1990s Alexey Rouman was featured in a documentary from the Right to Left series dedicated to indigo children. In 1999, he took part in the First Russian Delphic Games.

Throughout the 2000s Rouman designed clothing and interiors. 2007 saw him enter the Applied Arts School of the Kosygin Moscow State Textile University. Rouman’s graduation project, Halo of Ethno fashion collection, was highly praised by the professional community.

In 2013, Alexey Rouman decided to focus all his efforts on creating art. Today his artworks can be found in numerous private collections in Russia and Europe. In 2016, Alexey collaborated with Sergey Shnurov, frontman of Leningrad band, on the latter’s exhibition Brandrealism: A Retrospective.