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Vasili Nikiforovich Kovalenko was born in 1951. He has been an active participant in City, All-Russian and international art exhibitions since 1979. In 1981 he graduated from the Mukhina Higher School of Applied Arts in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). He has been a member of the Artists’ Union of Russia since 1990. He has participated in all famous placard design exhibitions in St. Petersburg, which were most abundant in the period of perestroika and glasnost. He was laureate of the “Perestroika and Ourselves” All-Union Competition. He is a popular placard designer, and is now primarily engaged in easel painting.
Important shows include:
- 1983 - Paris: ICOMOS International Exhibition
- 1985 - Moscow: YIII Exhibition of Young Painters
- 1988 - St.Petersburg: The 1st Competitive Exhibition of Original Placard Design
- 1989 - St.Petersburg: Glasnost International Exhibition
- 1989 - Aphoristic Placard Exhibition
- 1989 - All-Union Exhibition: “Perestroika and Ourselves”
- 1989 - Placard-Self Portrait Exhibition
- 1990 - Exhibition: “Leningrad in Manchester”
- 1990 - St. Petersburg, Milan, Paris: International Exhibition: “Conscience and the Ten Commandments”
- 1998 - St.Petersburg Myshelovka: Art in Briefcase Exhibition at Borei (Boreus) Gallery.
- 2003 - “Artists for City” Central Exhibit Chamber
He is married to artist Natalia Verdi and their daughter Masha Sokolova is also an artist.
Kovalenko’s paintings can be found in private collections in Russia, the USA, Great Britain, Canada, France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, and Japan.
His works have been published in numerous books and journals, including:
- “Leningrad Arts” #1, 1989
- Tradition and Revolution in Russian art Catalog (1990)
- Moscow’s affiche Catalog. Milan, 1991
Art:
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- Portrait of a Boy
- Still Life with a Clock