ЮРИЙ ШТАПАКОВ

YURY SHTAPAKOV

YURY SHTAPAKOV (*1958) was born in St. Petersburg (formerly Leningrad), Russia. In 1978, having graduated from Leningrad Architectural College he launched his professional career as an architect and graphic designer. Since 1983 Yury has been focusing on book illustration, painting and printmaking. In 1988 he founded the art-group “Steel Sunflower Seeds” and, in 2002, co-founded St. Petersburg Print Studio. Yury joined the Artists’ Union of Russia in 1993. In his current capacity as a printmaking instructor at Smolny Institute of Liberal Arts and Sciences in St. Petersburg (Bard College), HSE Art and Design School. Yury has been teaching traditional and experimental printmaking courses since 2004. Yury has exhibited his work in more than 250 shows in Russia, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, and France. Many of his works have been acquired by renowned private and public collections, including the State Hermitage Museum, the Russian Museum and the National Public Library.

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Education

1978 Leningrad Architectual College

2018
Disciplinary Spaces, Contemporary Art Museum Erarta, St.Petersburg, Russia
Bonded Sheets, Sterkh State Gallery, Surgut Russia
Graphic Arts Triennial, Novosibirsk, Russia
Miniprintprint Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Love-Create, DK Gromov Art Center, St.Petersburg, Russia

2017
VI Kazan international Printmaking Biennale, Kazan, Russia
SPb.GraphicArt.ru, Sterkh State Gallery,Surgut Russia
Small Art Object Vallauris France
Red and White Navicula Artis Gallery, St.Petersburg, Russia
Stability. Disintegration Kultproject Gallery,Moscow, Russia

2016
La Peau Artmandat , Barjols, France
Wars of XXI Century The State Museum of Political History of Russia, St.Petersburg, Russia
Cosmos The A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications, St.Petersburg, Russia
Baltic biennial NewMuseum, St.Petersburg, Russia
Paper. Statement Kultproject Gallery,Moscow, Russia

2015
Red CornerRaznochinny Petersburg Memorial Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
Miniprintprint Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Around Daniil Charms Kultproject Gallery,Moscow, Russia
XII Baltic States Biennale of Graphic Art, Kaliningrad, Russia
Papier II Surface Octagone Gallery, Paris, France

2014
Other Capital Museum of Moscow,Moscow, Russia
Ugra Contemporary Art Museum Erarta, St.Petersburg, Russia
Baltic biennial NewMuseum, St.Petersburg, Russia
Paper. Statement Kultproject Gallery,Moscow, Russia

2013
Found in St.Petersburg Kultproject Gallery,Moscow, Russia
Art-Kazan Fair, Kazan, Russia
New Bestiarium State Fine Art Museum, Hanty-Mansiysk, Russia
Cookbook of Russian Museum Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
Graphic Arts Triennial, Kenigsberg, Russia

2012
Graphic Arts Bienial, Riga, Latvia
Big prints AL Gallery, St.Petersburg, Russia
Art-Perm, Perm, Russia
Graphic Arts Triennial, Novosibirsk, Russia
Burned Ground ArtReflex Gallery, St.Petersburg, Russia

2011
Art-Helsinllki, Helsinki, Finland
Tales of Dostoevsky City Museum Centre, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Artist Book Museum Contemporary Art Museum Erarta, St.Petersburg, Russia
Heroes National Center of Cont. Art, St.Petersburg, Russia
Syndrome of the Princess ArtReflex Gallery, St.Petersburg, Russia

2010
Graphic Biennial Boomerang Museum of Cont. art, Perm, Russia
Faits Divers, “Ruine” Gallery, Geneve, Switzerland
1st Ural Industrial Biennial of Cont. Art, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Meninas, Contemporary Art Museum “Erarta”, St.Petersburg, Russia
Prints Collector Festival, Manezh, St.Petersburg, Russia
Odditorium, Anna Frants Gallery, New York, USA
Crime and Punishment, Lermontov Library , St.Petersburg, Russia,

2009
Russian Beauty, Contemporary Art Centrer, Moscow, Russia
Kunstkamera of the Book, Hermitage State Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
Recycling, Youth Education Centre Hermitage State Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia

2008
Flashback, Yasnaja Poljana Gallery, Tula, Russia
Intimate Diaries, Barbarian Art Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Substance vivante et morte, Chausse-Coq Gallery, Geneve, Switzerland
North- South, Central Exhibition Hall, Krasnodar, Russia
H2O: Nordic and Russian Art in public spaces, St.Petersburg, Russia
3rd Graphic biennale Russia, Artist’Union Exhibition Hall, St.Petersburg, Russia
1st International Print Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey

2007
The Secret of Beauty, Navicula Artis Gallery St.Petersburg, Russia
6 Biennal of Small Prints, London, G.Britain
Pictures And Talks, Fine Arts State Museum Moscow, Russia
Woods and Hooks, Non-conformism Art Museum St.Petersburg, Russia
Prints Tokyo 2007, Tokyo Japan
Now art- now future, 2nd Print Biennale, Kaunas-Klaipeda, Lituania
Guanlan International Print Biennale, China

2006
Leipzig Book Fair, Germany
International Triennial of Graphic Art, Bitola, Macedonia
Dedication to Rembrandt, Artist’Union Expo Hall, St.Petersburg, Russia
3rd Graphic Biennale, Manezh, St.Petersburg, Russia
Now art- now future, Graphic Biennale, Vilnius, Lithuania
Russian Idea, Navicula Artis Gallery, St.Petersburg, Russia
Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany
2nd Biennale of Artist Book, Alexandria, Egypt
Suisse-Russie, Musee Historique du Lausanne, Switzerland

2005
Biennale Internationale de Gravure, Liege, France
Graphic Art Biennial , Novosibirsk, Russia
Kharmsizdat presents, Russian Museum , St.Petersburg, Russia
Globalization, Printmaking Workshop, Cork, Ireland
Ahead- Back, State Museum, Sevastopol, Ukraine
History of Sdygr Appr, Dostoevsky Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia

2004
Forum de la Ville, Lausanne, Switzerland
Miniprint Triennal, Lahti, Finland
3 Biennale de l’Estampe, Draguignan, France
New Archeology, ProArteInstitute, St.Petersburg, Russia
Mei Yuan Cup Shanghai International Exlibris Exhibition, China
24 Miniprint Competition, Cadaques, Spain

2003
The Maze, British Council, St.Petersburg Russia
Contemporary Artist book, Akhmatova Museum , St.Petersburg Russia
Histoire Grave, Office du Tourisme , Brignole, France
Bosporian Agones, Art-Festival, Kerch, Ukraine

2002
Fetishist Corner, Nabokov Museum , St.Petersburg, Russia
40 Years in Art , I&J Nicolson Gallery, St.Petersburg, Russia
Boucherie d’Art, Austria-Serbia-France
Harmsizdat presents, Russian State Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia

2001
Ural Print Triennial, Bashkortostan
Miniprint, Spain, Kadaques
1st Graphic Biennale, Manezh, St.Petersburg Russia

2000
Hide-and-seek, Amphora Publishing House, St.Petersburg, Russia

1999
Northern Songs, l’Ecole des Beaux Arts,Toulon, France

1998
International Congress of Small Graphic Art and Exlibris, St.Petersburg, Russia

1997
Coi Gallery , Neuchatel, Switzerland
Northern Songs, Garage Gallery, Lorgues ,France
3rd British International Miniature Art Exhibition, London, Great Britain

1995
World of Exlibris, Beograd, Yugoslavia
Biennale van de Kleingafiek, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Steelsunflowerseeds, Silver Age Gallery, , St.Petersburg, Russia

1994
Viaggio Figurato, Galleria San Bernardo,Verona, Italy
Troisieme Triennale Mondiale d’Estampes, Chamalieres, France

1993
Other St.Petersburg, Borey Gallery, St.Petersburg, Russia

1992
War Between Earth and Sky, Silver Age Gallery, St.Petersburg , Russia

1991
5 Kunstler aus St. Petersburg, SPD-House, Hamburg, Germany

1990
From Underground to Europe, Kramskoy Art Museum, Voronezh, Russia
The Three, Kamelia Gallery, Leningrad, USSR

1989
Zielinskogo Palace, Kielce, Poland
100 Pictures, Ariadna Gallery, Leningrad, USSR

1988
Youth of the Country, Manezh, Leningrad, USSR

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