About
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.
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.
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.
Experts Choice
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
Oleg Kudryashov
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