Igor Vulokh

Painter, graphic artist, applied artist, illustrator, actor. Born to Alexander Vulokh and Lydia Malysheva in Kazan (1938). Studied under Victor Podgursky and Victor Kudelkin at the Kazan School of Art (1953–58) and under Fyodor Bogorodsky at the Faculty of Art of the All-Union Institute of Cinematography (1958–60), where he met Naum Kleiman and Vasily Shukshin. Married Kira Victorova (1962), Natalia Kutuzova (1972) and Natalia Okhota (1984). Illustrated the poems of Gennady Aygi (from 1961) and Tomas Tranströmer (1994). Worked at Gorky Film Studios in Moscow (1966–68), playing the role of Captain Remizov in the Soviet war film The Heart of a Friend (1966). Assistant of the department of western confessions at the Theological Academy of the St Sergius Monastery of the Trinity (1968–71). Member of the Union of Artists (1971). Collaborated with Vyacheslav Klykov (1970s). Awarded a residential grant by the Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Forschung und Kultur of Brandenburg and worked for three months at the Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf in Germany (1993). Nominated for the State Prize (1996). Designed a series of nineteen porcelain plates painted by Boris Kalita and launched by his stepson Yegor Altman (2010). Lives and works in Moscow. Contributed to exhibitions in Russia (from 1957) and abroad (from 1981). Contributed to the All-Union Art Exhibition Dedicated to the Fortieth Anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall, Academy of Arts of the USSR, House of the Artist, Union of Artists and Central House of Workers of the Arts in Moscow (1957–58), exhibitions of Soviet art in New York (1981) and Bonn (1982), Ny international kunst 1959–1984 at Silkeborg Kunstmuseum in Denmark (1984), Art Chicago 1987 (1987), Interart ’87 in Pozna? (1987), LA 88 Art Fair in Los Angeles (1988), Ars Sovietica 88 in Helsinki (1988), Ars Sovietica 89 in Suopelto Sysmä (1989), Art Myth 1 at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1990), The Other Art. Moscow. 1956–76 at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1990–91), Contemporary Artists to Malevich at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1991), Tokyo Art Expo (1991), Art Myth 2 at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1991), Diaspora at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1992), Künstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf in Brandenburg (1993), National Traditions and Postmodernism 1960–1990 at the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (1993), International Poetry Festival at Gotlands Museum in Visby (1994), Five Graphic Series to the Poetry of Gennady Aygi and Tomas Tranströmer at the Chuvash Museum of Art in Cheboksary (1998), Flourishes of Fire at the Fine Art Gallery in Moscow (2001), Summer Holidays at the Fine Art Gallery in Moscow (2001), Art Manège 2001 at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (2001), Abstraction in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2001–02), Cityscapes at the Filimonoff Gallery in Moscow (2002), Landscapes at the Fine Art Gallery in Moscow (2002), Direction: West, Time Machine by the Kino Gallery at the New Manège Exhibition Hall in Moscow (2003), Black-and-White Cinema by the Kino Gallery at the New Manège Exhibition Hall in Moscow (2003), Direction: North, Direction: South by the Kino Gallery at the New Manège Exhibition Hall in Moscow (2004), Art Manège 2005 at the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (2005), Metaphysics at the A3 Gallery in Moscow (2005), Kunst 06 Zürich (2006), Alternative Soviet Art at the State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki (2006), Nonconformists on Red Square at the History Museum in Moscow (2007), Fifty-Fifty: Painting and Graphic Art from the Collections of Mikhail Alshibaya and Mark Kurtser at the Museum of Personal Collections of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow (2007), The First Forty at Perm Gallery of Art in Perm (2008), Mood of the Soul at the Nadja Brykina Gallery in Zurich (2008), Russian Landscape: From Realistic to Abstract at the Nadja Brykina Gallery in Zurich (2009), Kunst 09 Zürich (2009), Tradition of Nonconformism at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in Moscow (2009), The Art of Healing and Collecting Art at the Tsereteli Art Gallery in Moscow (2010–11), Authorised for Export from the USSR at the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation in Moscow (2011), Unofficial Meeting at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg and the Nadja Brykina Gallery in Moscow (2011), Snow at the Nadja Brykina Gallery in Zurich (2012), Moscow. The Signs Come from Us. Dedicated to Kazimir Malevich at the Nadja Brykina Gallery in Zurich (2012), Art Moscow 2012 at the Central House of the Artist in Moscow (2012), Grey: Painting from the Collection of Mikhail Alshibaya and Katya Falkovich at Brusov Art Communication in Moscow (2012), Porcelain of the Generation of the Sixties at the Romanov Gallery in Moscow (2012), joint exhibitions with Igor Kadykov at the Filimonoff Gallery in Moscow (2001), with Dmitry Mokshin at the Filimonoff Gallery in Moscow (2002) and with Evgeni Dybsky at the RuArts Gallery in Moscow (2008) and one man-shows at the Union of Artists in Moscow (1961, 1979), Today Gallery in Moscow (1990), Galerie Brauner & Popov in Berlin (1991), Galleria Christos in Vigevano (1992), Galerie Clara Maria Sels in Düsseldorf (1993), Galerie Popov in Berlin (1994–95), Silkeborg Kunstmuseum in Denmark (1995), Fine Art Gallery in Moscow (1997, 2012), National Cultural Centre in Kazan (1999), Bulgarian Cultural Centre in Moscow (2002), Filimonoff Gallery in Moscow (2002), Central House of the Artist in Moscow (2003), Nadja Brykina Gallery in Zurich (2007) and ART4.RU Contemporary Art Museum in Moscow (2008).