VICTOR
UMNOV
Victor Umnov was born in Moscow in 1931. He graduated from
the Moscow Power Engineering Institute in 1955 and for seven
years worked as an engineer. In 1954-57, he attended an
art school in Moscow. In 1958-62, he was learning art from
the prominent graphic artist, M.Klyachko. Victor began his
career as a professional artist in 1962. In 1964-89, he
worked in the State Studio of Advertisement and Applied
Graphics. He joined the USSR Union of Artists in 1972. In
1977, he started to compose short essays on such topics
as art, religion and gender issues. In the 1980s, he proceeded
to combine texts and visual imagery. In 2005, his book,
Words and Pauses, was published in Moscow by the
National
Center for Contemporary Arts.
Victor's personal exhibits include those in the Moscow
Collection Gallery in Moscow in 1993, A-3
Gallery in Moscow in 1995, M'Ars Gallery
in Moscow in 2000, the Art-Harbor Gallery in St.
Petersburg in 2001, the Dom Cultural Center in
Moscow in 2005 and the M'Ars Center for Contemporary Arts
in Moscow in 2005.
Among his most notable group exhibits are New Reality
in Ravenna and Bologna in Italy in 1989, Calligraphy
in USSR-USA in New York and San-Francisco in USA in
1990, Other Art. 1956-1976 in the State Tretyakov
Gallery in Moscow in 1990, Contemporary Artists to Malevich
in the State Tretyakov Gallery in 1991, Graphics
in Erfurt in Germany in 1992, The World of An Art Collector.
Contemporary View. Collection of E.Nutovich in The
State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow in 1997,
Russian Constructivist Roots. Contemporary Concern
in Universities of Maryland and New Hampshire and in the
World Bank headquarters in Washington D.C. in USA in 1997,
Constructivist Toolbox: Geometry, Structure, Ornament,
Color in the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow in 1998,
Abstract
Art in Russia: The Twentieth Century in the State
Russian Museum in St. Petersburg in 2001, Moscow
Abstraction: Second Half of the 20th Century in
the Tretyakov Gallery in 2003, Moscow Book Graphics
in Frankfurt in Germany in 2003 and Revision
of Material in the State Tretyakov Gallery in 2005-2006.
Victor's works are found in the State
Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the State
Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, The
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in USA, The
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum in USA, in the Council
of Europe in Strasbourg in France, as well as in many other
museums in Russia and private collections around the world.
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