Shvetsov Petr

PETR SHVETSOV (b. 1970, Leningrad, USSR). Lives & works in St. Petersburg. Works with painting and graphics. One of the very few of his generation, he uses old-fashioned technique and seeks new opportunities in it.

The main goal of his art is to make beauty, which is so few around. Petr Shvetsov searches for the lost harmony and turns to the past. 

His art is expressive that is why he still manages to shock, touch the audience on the raw, that stands ready for anything.

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Primary solo exhibitions

2019

• TexMex, Carillon Gallery, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, TX, USA
• Not what it seems, Marina Gisich Gallery, St. Petersburg

2018

• Nonfigurative Units, Gallery 15, Санкт-Петербург
• "Alter Idem", Petrikirche, St. Petersburg
• "Cannibal, sacrificing in sacred grove", with Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai, Academy of fine arts museum, St. Petersburg

2017

• "My first teacher. Leningrad school", Nаvicula Artis Gallery, St. Petersburg
• "Dwarfs-devourers of snakes at the museum", with Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai, Book graphic library, St. Petersburg

2016

• "The Advantages of Spiders" with Katya Granova, Lyuda Gallery, St. Petersburg
• "Untitled", Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg

2014

• "Memorial Modeling", American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C., USA
• "New paintings", Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg

2011

• "Event Horizon", Small Hall of the Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", 103 Griboyedov Canal Emb., St. Petersburg
• "Twilight State", Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg

2010

• "The War of the Worlds", Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg
• "Tile", Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg

2009

• "Apologia of Narcissism", Luda gallery, St. Petersburg
• Swamps, Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg

2008

• "The Poles of Sex", Main Street Museum, White River Junction, Vermont
• "The nightingale sings when he wants to", Open Space Gallery, St. Petersburg
• "Bird Haven", NOMI Gallery, St. Petersburg
• "The Women’s Question", "The village life" Gallery, St. Petersburg

2007

• "New Paintings. In the Badger’s Hole", Belka and Strelka Gallery, St. Petersburg
• "The Living and the Dead", Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg
• "The Fence", Navicula Artis Gallery, St. Petersburg

2006

• "Tsusima", State History Museum, Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg (in collaboration with the National Center of Contemporary Art and Navicula Artis Gallery)
• "52 Minutes", Gallery project "Neva Tower", St. Petersburg

2005

• "Head of an Architect", Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg

2004

• Contemporary Art in Traditional Museums Festival, St. Petersburg
• "Drawings", "Mit’ki VKHUTEMAS" Gallery, St. Petersburg
• "Columbarium", State Geological Museum, St. Petersburg (as part of ProArte Institute’s "Contemporary Art in Traditional Museums" Festival)
• "Modern art in Petrograd, Leningrad, St. Petersburg. 20th century"? with the participation of NCCA and Navicula Artis Gallery
• "Shadow Spaces", State Hermitage Museum (in conjunction with the program "Contemporary art in Petrograd", Leningrad, Petersburg in the 20th Century)

2003

• "Airplanes", Navicula Artis Gallery, St. Petersburg

2002

• "Aeroplanes", Art Angar Center of Contemporary Art, Solovki, Russia
• "Avions", Le Garage, Lourges, France

2001

• "Abstract", British Council Russia, St. Petersburg

2000

• "Mixed Fights" (with M. Gavrichkov), National Centre Gallery, St. Petersburg

1995

• "Petr Shvetsov and Petr Bely", Odense University, Odense, Denmark

1994

• "Sherburne School", Sherburne, England

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Public exhibitions

2022

• Exhibition of the Non-State Non-Russian Museum, GROUND Solyanka, Moscow
• "Art gardens. Metamorphoses", Arkhangelskoye Museum and Manor, Moscow

2020

• More than Moscow, Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg

2019

• "Journey to the Big North in search of the Crater of the Other Rose using the LibreLuch compass", Kunsthalle nummer sieben, St. Petersburg

2018

• Casts, Russian Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg

2016

• "Advantages of spiders", Luda gallery, St. Petersburg

2015

• "We must cultivate our garden", Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg
• PAINTING BEYOND PAINTING. The Scientific Research Museum of Russian Academy of Arts

2014

• "Signal" Project, KB "Signal", St. Petersburg
• Memorial Modeling, Memorial Modeling, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C., Washington D.C.
• The other capital. Museum of Moscow

2012

• ARCO Madrid, Spain

2011

• ARCO Madrid, Spain

2010

• "Black and White", Modernariat gallery, St. Petersburg

2008

• "Nord Art", Installation "Call Me and I’ll Do Whatever You Want", Rendsburg , Germany

2007

• "200 Years of Lithography", Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg
• Art Moscow, Moscow, Russia
• "Nord Art", Installation "My Grandmother Was Right", Rendsburg, Germany

2006

• Graphics Biennale, St. Petersburg Union of Artists, St. Petersburg
• "Improvisation", The international exhibition of drawings, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia
• "New Prints 2006/Spring", Selected and Curated by Richard Tuttle, International Print Center New York, NY
• "Collage in Russia", Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg

2005

• "Black Boomer", Huuto Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
• "Collage in Russia", Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg
• "Forward/Backwards", Sevastopol State Art Museum, Ukraine

2004

• "Flights", Club on Brestkoi, Moscow
• "Art", Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", St. Petersburg
• Art Manezh 2004, Moscow

2003

• "Gardens of Paradise", Anna Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg
• "Histoires Graves", Office de la Culture, Brignoles, France
• "Kharmsizdat Presents Artist’s Books", The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

2002

• "Art Brut Demobilization Albums", Anna Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg
• "Black and White", Museum of the History of St. Petersburg
• "Sculpture and Recreation Garden", Anna Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg
• First Graphics Biennale, St. Petersburg Union of Artists, St. Petersburg
• Boucherie d`Art, Galerie IZBA, Novyi Sad, Yugoslavia

2001

• "Desire and Pursuit of the Whole", Pro Arte Institute, St. Petersburg. Curated by Christopher Gordon

1997

• "BOOKCAMERA or The Book and the Elements", Anna Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg
• Two Hundred Years of Lithography, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

1996

• "That is no country for old men", Marina Gisich Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
• Idaho State University at Boise, USA
• "Artgenda", Arts Festival of Baltic Countries as part of Copenhagen ‘s, Cultural Capital of Europe celebrations

1995

• "Book Garden", Manchester Royal Exchange, UK

1993

• Exhibition Hall of the Moskovsky district, St. Petersburg
• Petr Shvetsov and Peter Belyi, House of Culture of Food Workers, St. Petersburg

1992

• "Time of Transition", City Museum and Art Gallery, Bristol and travelling; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; The Library Gallery, Ramsgate; Ceri Richards Gallery, University College, Swansea; Flaxman Gallery, Staffordshire Gallery, Stoke on Trent; Bankside Gallery, London; Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro

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Collections

• Kohler Art Library. University of Wisconsin at Madison
• University of California Library, St. Barbara
• Institute of Contemporary Russian Culture, Los Angeles
• University of Iowa Library at Iowa City
• The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg
• City of Odense, Denmark
• British Library
• Sakson State Library, Dresden
• State Library, Berlin
• New York Public Library
• The Lilly Library, University of Indiana at Bloomington

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Education

• Leningrad Secondary Art School (now St. Petersburg State Academic Art Lyceum named after Boris Ioganson).
• Member of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists since 1992.

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