Yury Shtapakov was born in 1958 in St
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Yury Shtapakov was born in 1958 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 artgroup “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) 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. Residencies 2005 Cork Print Workshop Cork, Ireland 2006 Tamarind Institute Albuquerque, USA Leipzig Book Fair Leipzig, Germany 2007 Frankfurt Book Fair Frankfurt, Germany 2008 Culture Communication Centre Klaipeda, Lithuania 2009 Gymnase de Bugnon Lausanne, Switzerland 2011 Jyvaskyla Centre for Printmaking, Finland 2012 Guanlan Original Printmaking Base, Shengen, China 2013 Sviyazhsk Printworkshop, Kazan’, Russia Culture Communication Centre Klaipeda, Lithuania Public Collections Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria, Egypt Hermitage Library, St. Petersburg, Russia Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia National State Library, St. Petersburg, Russia National Library, Moscow, Russia Fine Art Museum, Vologda, Russia Fine Art Museum, Sakhalin, Russia National Museum of Fine Arts MOMA, New York, USA Fine Arts Museum, Kerch, Ukraine State Fine Arts Museum, Sebastopol, Ukraine Book Arts Library, St. Petersburg, Russia Saxon State Library, Dresden, Germany Contemporary Art Museum, Perm, Russia National Fine Arts Museum, Berlin, Germany City Museum Centre, Krasnoyarsk, Russia National Library of Latvia Fine Art Museum, Omsk, Russia Selected Solo Exhibitions 2012 Formula of Concealment Rizzordi Art Fondation, St.Petersburg, Russia Burned Ground ArtReflex Gallery, St.Petersburg, Russia 2011 Heroes National Center of Cont. Art, St.Petersburg, Russia Syndrome of the Princess ArtReflex Gallery, St.Petersburg, Russia 2010 Faits Divers Ruine Gallery, Geneve, Switzerland Crime and Punishment Lermontov Library, St.Petersburg, Russia 2008 Flashback Yasnaja Poljana Gallery, Tula, Russia Substance vivante et morte Chausse-Coq Gallery, Geneve, Switzerland 2007 The Secret of Beauty Navicula Artis Gallery, St.Petersburg, Russia Woods and Hooks Non-conformism Art Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia 2005 History of Sdygr Appr Dostoevsky Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia 2004 Forum de la Ville Lausanne, Switzerland 2003 The Maze British Council, St.Petersburg, Russia 2002 Fetishist’ Corner Nabokov Museum St.Petersburg, Russia 2000 Hide-and-seek Amphora Publishing House, St.Petersburg, Russia Selected Group Exhibitions 2012 Graphic Arts Biennial, 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-Helsinki, 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
