Aleksey Borisov

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About the author

Born on September 19, 1965 in Nizhniy Tagil, Yekaterinburg region (Russia).

Education:
1982 - 1991 - Kharkiv Art and Industry Institute, graphics department.
Since 1989 - a member of the Youth Branch of the Artists' Union of Ukraine.
Since 1989 - artist at the experimental creative artist association "Litter A".

1991-1992 - education and work at the Academy of Arts (Cincinnati, USA).

Since 1999 - a member of the Artists' Union of Ukraine.

Worked as an illustrator in the magazines:
PLAYBOY - Moscow (2002-2005)
Esquire - Moscow (2005-2009)
Ogoniok - Moscow (2006-2010)

Currently Mr. Borisov lives and works in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

Personal exhibitions:

2016 - / Crossroads 2 / CROSSROADS 2 / AC-gallery, Kharkiv.

2014 - UA-FR - AC-gallery, Kharkiv.

2013 - Introduction to multidimensional. STEP29 - Yermilov Center, Kharkiv.
2010-2011 - CROSSROADS / Crossroads / (painting) AC-gallery, Kharkiv, gallery "Lenin", Zaporizhia.
2005 - "Days of Victory - Nights of War" (painting), City Art Gallery, Kharkiv.
1999 - "Linkage" (painting - photo), "Palette" gallery, Kharkiv.
1998 - "Time Ы", block of personal exhibitions of Litter A group artists' and joint performance of the group.
1998 - "Stereotopographical landscape of Slobozhanschina" (the Soros Foundation grant, 1997), International House, Kharkiv.
1996 - "Unnecessary painting or introduction to multidimensional" (the Soros Foundation grant, 1996), "Up-Down" gallery, Kharkiv.
1992 - "Transcendental Journey" (feat. Gene Merides), Longworth Hall, Cincinnati, USA.

Group exhibitions:

2014 - I-YES, ARTHOUSE gallery, Kharkiv

2013 - CLASSICISTS - 25 YEARS - "Litter A", Yermilov Center, Kharkiv.

2010 - Cultural Map of Ukraine - Museum of Modern Art, Kyiv.

2009 - Golden bee - Graphic design - Poster, Moscow.
2007 - "Mysterious", City Art Gallery, Kharkiv.
2006 - "Men's miniature", City Art Gallery, Kharkiv.
2002 - "G.A. Bondarenko Memorial", City Art Gallery, Kharkiv.
2002 - "Love is like a «Song», Chernihiv.
2002 - Festival "Cultural Heroes", project "Love is like a «Song», "RA" gallery, Kyiv.
2002 - Projects "Jelly shores" and "Love is like a "Song", festival "Cultural Heroes", Kharkiv.
2000 - "Tsar's project", Magdeburg, Germany.
1999 - "Megalomania...", City Art Gallery, Kharkiv; III International Art Festival, Kyiv.
1998 - "In Memory of Dizzy», Dizzy's Gallery, Nuremberg, Germany.
1998 - "Not figurative art of Ukraine of the XX century", Ukrainian House, Kyiv.
1998 - "In Memory of Dizzy", Municipal Gallery, Kharkiv.
1997 - "Impreza-97" project "Franko - Ivan - Franko", Ivano-Frankivsk.
1996 - «Spy», «Litter A», Kharkiv.
1995 - 1993 performances and exhibitions of the "Litter A" art group.
1994 - "Tearful", exhibition-performance, Litter A, «Up - Down» gallery, Kharkiv.
1993 - "Consument Art - 93", Nuremberg, Germany.
1991 - "4th Block", International Exhibition dedicated to the Chornobyl Disaster, the Art Museum, Kharkiv, Kyiv, Tokyo (Japan).
1990 - "Dedication to Van Gogh". To the 100th anniversary of death, Littеr A, House of Artists, Kharkiv.
1990 - "Traditional and revolutionary in Russian Art" (in collaboration with the Russian Museum), the Olympic Center, Manchester, UK.
1990 - Exhibition-performance «NO», "Litter A", House of Science and Technology, Kharkiv.
1990 - New soviet posters of the Perestroika times, City Museum of Art, Minden, Germany.
1990-87 - All-Soviet Union poster exhibitions, Moscow, Leningrad, Riga.
1989 - "Slave Izaura", Institute of Meteorology, Kharkiv.
1989 - "Perestroika and We", Central House of Artists, Moscow, Kyiv, Leningrad, Riga, "Avtoplakat" gallery, Kharkiv.
1989 - "God and the World in everyone...", House of Artists, Kharkiv.
1989 - "Portraits of Women", "Litter A", New Theatre Gallery, Kharkiv.
1989 - "The Soviet underground art», The Nachancin Gallery, New York, USA.
1989 - "AFRO - 89", "Litter A", New Theatre Gallery, Kharkiv.
1988 - "Nine of I", House of Artists, Kharkiv.
1988 - "New Name", Art Museum, Kharkiv.
1987 - "Youth", Art Museum, Kharkiv.
1986 - "In black light", Kharkiv.

Works of Alexei Borisov can be found in private and state collections in Ukraine, Russia, USA, Germany and Poland.

Publications:
"Harmless guidances"
"Best Soviet poster". Album of Perestroika (catalogue). Moscow, 1989.
"The curtain for the artist". "Litter A" album. Kharkiv, 1991.
"Art of Ukraine of the XX century", Kyiv, 1998.
"Advertising" magazine, 1989.
"Traditional and revolutionary in the Russian art" (catalogue), Manchester, UK.
"Theatre" magazine of reproductions, London, UK, 1989.
«Consument Art - 93", Nuremberg, Germany.
2002-2010 - Magazines "PLAYBOY", "Esquire", "Ogoniok", "Russia today".