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Born 1932 in Moscow the artist studied in an art studio for youth from 1942 to 1947 and in Moscow at the Grabar Art School for Children from 1949 to 1951.

Having spent 3 years on the artist animator course at the Union Cartoon Studio (Souzmultfilm), Oleg Kudryashov joined the Moscow Organisation of Artists Union in 1961. He was well known in avant-garde art circles but almost never exhibited together with other artists.

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He emigrated in 1974, burning thousands of his works which he was not allowed to take. The artist lived in London, where he was visited by G. Kostakis who praised the artist’s work, placing him above many of his contemporaries.

Oleg Kudryashov has lived in Russia since 1997. The artist creates paintings, drawings, sculptures, videos, linocuts and etchings using dry point on zinc and plastic, also large energetic monochromes (before 1980) and abstract colour compositions.

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His artwork has only one impression. The next one is never the same, as he would always add something to the original drawing. The artist also created three-dimensional compositions made out of his two-dimensional works. Some of his 3D works have been realised as very large colourful metal sculptures.
The artist quietly passed away at his home in September 2022.

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Exhibitions

Age of Graphics.
From Kazimir Malevich to Oleg Kudryashov

Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Oleg Kudryashov: Bridge to the Future
Russian Cultural Centre, London, United Kingdom

New Acquisitions of Prints and Drawings in 2009–2014
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

Oleg Kudryashov: Retrospective, Woland Associazione Culturale, Magazzino delle Idee
Municipal Art Gallery, Trieste, Italy

Oleg Kudryashov: Freedom Inside Yourself, Retrospective exhibition to celebrate the artist’s 80th birthday
London Collectors Club, Bermondsey Project Space, London, UK

Oleg Kudryashov: the Touch of Life
New Jerusalem Art Museum, Istra, Russia

Relief and Around It
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

Kentridge and Kudryashov: Against the Grain
Kreeger Museum, Washington, D.C., USA

Intuition
Shchusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia

Regional Art Museum
Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Oblast, Russia

Art of Etching
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

7th Baltic States Biennial of Graphic Arts Kaliningrad – Koenigsberg
Kaliningrad Art Gallery, Kaliningrad, Russia

Awarded, Russian Federation National Award (State Prize) in Art (the year 2000)
LeVall Art Gallery, Novosibirsk, Russia

Oleg Kudryashov: Retrospective
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Homecoming
State Centre of Contemporary Art in Sakharov Museum, Moscow, Russia

2nd International Triennial of Graphic Arts
Prague, Czech Republic

Oleg Kudryashov: Constructions, Drypoints and Paper Sculptures
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Contemporary Print Show Concourse Gallery
Barbican Centre, London, UK

Workshop 107
Wiltshire, UK

Contemporary Print Show
Concourse Gallery, Barbican Centre, London, UK

Workshop 107
Wiltshire, UK

Contemporary Print Show
Concourse Gallery, Barbican Centre, London, UK

Four Sculptures
The Economist, London, UK

Late 20th Century Prints
Museum of Fine Arts Boston, USA

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Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

Galerie Saint-Guillaume
Tokyo, Japan

Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery
London, UK (also in 1993, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002)

Works on Paper and Prints
Marlborough Graphics Gallery, London, UK

Personal Show
The Central House of Artists Moscow, Russia

The Unique Print 70’s into 90’s
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA

TRANSIT: Russian Artists between East and West
Long Island Museum of Fine Arts, Long Island, New York, USA

State Russian Museum
Leningrad, Russia

Roger Ramsay Gallery
Chicago, USA

Art Connection
Basel, Switzerland

Douglas Hyde Gallery
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

St Paul’s Gallery
Leeds, UK

Marlene Eleini Gallery
London, UK

European Triennial of Engraving (Triennale Europea dell’Incisione)
Grado, Italy

Galerie Patrick Cramer
Geneva, Switzerland (also in 1988, 1989, 1991)

Albert Totah Gallery
New York, USA

Peter Moores Project 8: Out of Line
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK

The 2nd Contemporary Art Fair by Contemporary Art Society
London, UK

Landscape Interior, Coracle Press
London, UK

Double Elephant
Barbican Centre, London, UK

Brand New Prints
Martina Hamilton Gallery New York, USA

Coracle Press Gallery
London, UK

One of a Kind
AIR gallery, London, UK

Contemporary Art Society Market
London, UK

Public Collections

Arts Council of England

London, England

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Sydney, Australia

Ashmolean Museum

Oxford, England

Baltimore Museum of Fine Arts

Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Boymans-van Beuningen Museum

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Collection of the City New-Ulm

New Ulm, Minnesota, USA

Contemporary Art Society

London, England

Fitzwilliam Museum

Cambridge, England

Grafische Sammlung

Schaetzler Palais, Augsburg, Germany

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute

Washington DC, USA

Hunterian Museum

Glasgow, Scotland

Kreeger Museum

Washington DC, USA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles, California, USA

Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Minnesota, USA

Yale Center for British Art

New Haven, USA

Museum of Fine Arts

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Nasher Museum of Art

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

National Gallery of Art

Dresden, Germany

National Gallery of Art

Washington DC, USA

New Jerusalem Art Museum

Istra, Russia

Norwich Castle Museum

Norwich, England

Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts

Moscow, Russia

Saint Louis Art Museum

Missouri, USA

State Library of Saltykov-Schedrin

St. Petersburg, Russia

State Museum of Literature

Moscow, Russia

Tate Gallery

London, England

Tretyakoy Gallery

Moscow, Russia

Trinity College

Dublin, Ireland

Victoria and Albert Museum

London, England

Wakefield Art Gallery

Wakefield, England

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