BORIS
SMERTIN
Boris Smertin was born in 1947 in Rostov-on-Don. From 1967,
he lived in Moscow. In 1967-1973, he studied in the Moscow
Surikov Fine Arts Institute. In 1977, he joined the Moscow
Union of Artists. He died in Moscow in 1993.
Boris’s personal exhibitions include Without the Fourth
One in the AZLK house of culture in Moscow in 1988,
as well as shows in Today Gallery in Moscow in 1990, the
city museum of Luneburg in Germany and in Today Gallery
in Moscow in 1993.
Among his most notable group exhibitions are 3rd Biennale
of Graphic Arts in Norway in 1976, 1st European Biennale
of Graphics in Germany in 1979, Triennale of European Graphics
in Venice in Italy in 1981, Man and Space in Paris
in France in 1982, Soviet Graphic Art in Sweden,
Belgium and Finland in 1983, Express Avant-Garde
in the Soviet Culture Foundation in Moscow in 1989, New
Art from Moscow. Labyrinth in Warsaw in Poland and
Hanover and Hamburg in Germany in 1989, New Soviet Avant-Garde
in New-York in USA in 1989, Contemporary Soviet Art
in Versailles in France in 1989, Sovangard in Vienna
in Austria in 1990, Red and White in Open Haven
Museum in Amsterdam in the Netherlands in 1990, The
Golden Brush in the Central House of Artists in Moscow
in 1991, The Uprising of Pictures in Halle and
Hamburg in Germany in 1995, Galleries in a Gallery
in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow in 1996, The
Colors of Time in Zaltsgitter, Luneburg and Berlin
in Germany in 1996, Russian
Pop Art at the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow
in 2005 and Revision
of Material in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow
in 2005-2006
Boris’s works are found in the State
Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, The Russian Cultural Foundation
in Moscow, Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow, New
Orleans Museum of Art in USA, The
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum in USA and in other
collections in Russia and other countries.
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