Konstantin Simun

Sculptor, graphic artist. Born in the family of Mikhail Simun in Leningrad (1934). Studied at the Tallinn Institute of Arts (1952–54) and under Igor Krestovsky, Mikhail Kerzin and Dmitry Yepifanov at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad (1954–57; expelled for Formalism). Member of the Union of Artists (1958). Married Elena Spilchevskaya (born 1933). Emigrated to the United States (1988). Lives and works in Boston. Contributed to exhibitions (from 1957), including Abstraction in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2001–02), Portraiture in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2001–02), All Creatures Great and Small: Russian Animal Art (18th to 21st Centuries) at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2004), Collage in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2005–06), Times of Change: Art in the Soviet Union (1960–85) at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2006), Poésie de l’eau dans l’Art Russe at the Palais Lumière in Evian (2007) and a one-man show at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2004).