Petr Shvetsov

“Italian Sausage”, 2018

oil , canvas

Born 1970; Leningrad , Russia

Lives & works in St. Petersburg

Studied: Leningrad Academy Art School

Member of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists since 1992

Individual and Two-person Exhibitions

• 2011 Twilight State, Gallery Anna Nova, St. Petersburg, Event Horizon , Maliy Manege, St. Petersburg

• 2010 The War of the Worlds, Gallery Anna Nova, St. Petersburg

• 2009 Apologia of Narcissism , Gallery Lyuda, St. Petersburg, Swamps , Gallery Anna Nova, St. Petersburg

• 2008 The Women’s Question. ‘ Selskaya Zhizn ‘ Gallery, St. Petersburg Bird Haven . Gallery NOMI, St. Petersburg, The nightingale sings when he wants to , Open Space Gallery, St. Petersburg, The Poles of Sex, Main Street Museum, White River Junction, Vermont

• 2007  New Paintings. In the Badger’s Hole. ‘  Belka and Strelka ‘ Gallery, St. Petersburg, The Living and the Dead , Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, The Fence , ‘ Navicula Artis ‘ Gallery, St. Petersburg

• 2006 Tsusima , State History Museum, Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg (in collaboration with the National Center of Contemporary Art and Navicula Artis Gallery ),52 Minutes, Gallery project “Neva Tower,” St. Petersburg

• 2005  Head of an Architect , ‘Anna Nova’ Gallery, St. Petersburg

• 2004  Shadow Spaces, State Hermitage Museum (in conjunction with the program “Contemporary art in Petrograd, Leningrad , Petersburg in the 20 th Century ), Columbarium , State Geological Museum , St. Petersburg (as part of ProArte Institute’s, Contemporary Art in Traditional Museums Festival ), Drawings , Gallery Mit’ki VKHUTEMAS, St. Petersburg

• 2003  Airplanes , Navicula Artis Gallery, St. Petersburg

• 2002 Avions , Le Garage, Lourges , France, Aeroplanes , Art Angar Center of Contemporary Art, Solovki

• 2001 Abstract , British Council Russia , St. Petersburg

• 2000 Mixed Fights (with M. Gavrichkov), National Centre Gallery, St. Petersburg

• 1995 Petr Shvetsov and Petr Bely , Odense University, Odense, Denmark

• 1994 Sherburne School , Sherburne , England

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2010 Black and White , Modernariat gallery, St. Petersburg

• 2008 Nord Art , Installation Call Me and I’ll Do Whatever You Want, Rendsburg , Germany

•  2007 Nord Art , Installation My Grandmother Was Right, Rendsburg , Germany, Art Moscow , Moscow , Russia, 200 Years of Lithography , Russian State Museum , St. Petersburg

• 2006  New Prints 2006/Spring, Selected and Curated by Richard Tuttle, International Print Center New York , NY, Improvisation, The international exhibition of drawings, Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia, Graphics Biennale , St. Petersburg Union of Artists, St. Petersburg

• 2005 Collage in Russia , State Russian Museum , St. Petersburg, Forward/Backwards, Sevastopol State Art Museum, Ukraine

• 2004  Art Manezh 2004 , Moscow, Art , Manezh Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Flights , Club on Brestkoi, Moscow

• 2003  Kharmsizdat Presents Artist’s Books , State Russian Museum , St. Petersburg, Histoires Graves , Office de la Culture, Brignoles , France,Gardens of Paradise , Anna Akhmatova Museum , St. Petersburg

• 2002  Black and White , Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, Sculpture and Recreation Garden , Anna Akhmatova Museum , St. Petersburg, First Graphics Biennale , St. Petersburg Union of Artists, St. Petersburg, Boucherie d`Art , Galerie IZBA, Novyi Sad, Yugoslavia

• 2001  Desire and Pursuit of the Whole , Pro Arte Institute, St. Petersburg . Curated by Christopher Gordon, Brut Art Demobilization Albums , Anna Akhmatova Museum , St. Petersburg

• 1997  Two Hundred Years of Lithography , State Russian Museum , St. Petersburg, BOOKCAMERA or The Book and the Elements , Anna Akhmatova Museum , St. Petersburg

• 1996  Artgenda , Arts Festival of Baltic Countries as part of Copenhagen ‘s, Cultural Capital of Europe celebrations, Idaho State University at Boise , USA

• 1995-1996 Book Garden , Manchester Royal Exchange , England

• 1992-1994 Time of Transition , City Museum and Art Gallery , Bristol and travelling; Ferens Art Gallery , Hull ; The Library,Gallery, Ramsgate; Ceri Richards Gallery , University College , Swansea ; Flaxman Gallery, Staffordshire, Gallery, Stoke on Trent ; Bankside Gallery, London ; Royal Cornwall Museum , Truro

Selected Residencies

• 2006 Tamarind Institute, Alburquerque , New Mexico

• 2005 Jyväskylä Centre for Printmaking, Jyväskylä Art Museum , Jyväskylä , Finland

• 2004 Jyväskylä Centre for Printmaking, Jyväskylä Art Museum , Jyväskylä , Finland

• 1996 Printmaking Workshop, Odense , Denmark, Printmaking Workshop, New York , with Bob Blackburn

• 1995 Printmaking Workshop, Odense , Denmark

• 1994 Artist-in-Residence, Sherborne School , England

Public Collections

State Russian Museum

Russian National Library

New York Public Library

British Library

Sakson State Library, Dresden

City of Odense, Denmark

State Library, Berlin

Institute of Contemporary Russian Culture, Los Angeles

University of California Library, St. Barbara

The Lilly Library, University of Indiana at Bloomington

University of Iowa Library at Iowa City

Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin at Madison