About the artist
Member of
the Artists' Union of Russia.
Born in
1970 in Nalchik.
In 1989
Yuri Pervushin graduated from the Sverdlovsk Art School named after I. D. Shadr.
In 1995 graduated
from the Graphic arts faculty of The St. Peterburg Academic Institute of
Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin (studio of
professor A.A. Pakhomov).
In 1995
interned at the École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts in Paris (painting
studio of prof. B. Piffaretti and engraving studio of prof. J.-P. Tanguy).
In 1995 - laureate
of the contest dedicated to N. Poussin (contest organisers: the Louvre Museum,
Museum of Modern Art, Paris and the LVMH Company).
From 2000 -
Fellow of the Presidential Fund in Support of Young Culture Professionals.
Lives and
works in Saint Petersburg.
From 1990
Yuri
Pervushin
has participated in more than 100 personal and group exhibitions in
Russia and abroad.
The artist’s
works are found in museum collections:
- Benois Family
Museum (Peterhof State Museum-Reserve),
- State
Museum of Fine Arts (Yekaterinburg), Contemporary art collection at the Manezh
Central Exhibition Hall (Staint Petersburg),
- Guggenheim
Museum Bilbao (Spain),
- Museum of
Contemporary Russian Art (New Jersey, USA),
- Municipal
Arts Center (Wress, Belgium),
- House-Museum of M.P. Mussorgsky (Velikie Luki),
- Vologda State Museum of Fine Arts.
Yuri
Pervushin’s artworks are also found in private collections in Australia, Belgium,
Great Britain, in the Netherlands, Russia, USA, France and Finland.
