Rinat Voligamsi (1968 - )

Rinat Voligamsi was born in 1968 in Yermolaevo, a small village in the Kuyurgazinskiy District in the southern Urals of Russia. Interested in art and painting from a young age, Voligamsi entered the Ufa State Technological University in the Architecture Department in 1984 after years of self-tutelage. In 1988 due to conscription, he was recruited into the Russian army, interrupting his studies. He graduated the following year, in 1989, and began exhibiting. In 1994 he was awarded the State Prize of Russia, for Excellence in the Arts. He began to gain international attention in 2006 with his provocative Unofficial Album, which recounts a parallel and fictitious biography of Vladimir Lenin and his twin brother Sergei.

Voligamsi's work can be found in many important public and private collections including: The Omsk M. A. Vrubel Museum of Fine Arts, Omsk, Russia; The M. B. Nesterov Republican Art Museum, Bashkortostan Republic, Russia; Krasnoyarsk Cultural-Historical Museum Complex, Krasnoyarsk, Russia; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow; Erarta, Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2011 Exhibition Art vs. Geography, Solo Exhibition, Moscow MOMA (Museum of Modern Art Moscow), Moscow, Russia.

2011 Showcased in the art fair Art Moscow, Green Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

2011 Solo exhibition in the Biennale Museum, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

2011 Unofficial album., Solo Exhibition, Gallery Green Art, Premi. Russia.

2011 White Nights, Exhibition, Premi Central Museum, Premi, Russia.

2010 After a Disaster. Krasnoyarsk Cultural-Historical Museum Complex, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

2008 An Unofficial Album, a retrospective in the National Museum, Ufa, Russia.

2007 'Me, Myself, and I' Again. Miras Gallery, Ufa, Russia.

2007 People. Conversations. Flies. CHA Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

2007 Take the Flag in your Hands! Square Gallery, Omsk, Russia.

2002 Rinat Voligamsi, Amadeus Art Gallery, London, UK.

2001 Solo exhibition, CHA, Moscow, Russia.

2000 Solo exhibition, Miras Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

1999 Solo exhibition, Maximum Gallery, Ufa, Russia.

1999 Solo exhibition, New Gallery, Ufa, Russia.

1999 Solo exhibition, Gallery Maximum, Ufa, Russia.

1999 Solo exhibition, New Gallery, Ufa, Russia.

1995 Solo exhibition in Gosudarstvennyĭ Museum, Zaloust, Russia.

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS AND ART FAIRS:

2011 THE FACE, An Evolution of Portraiture in photography, Shown in Novosibisk, Krasnoyarsk, Ekaterinburg, Omsk, Chernabelsk, SPB, Paris.

2009 Art Moscow, Moscow, Russia.

2008 Group Exhibition, Tunguska Substance. Krasnoyarsk Cultural-Historical Museum, Krasnoyarsk, Russia.

2008 S. Krasnov and his friends. The Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russia.

2008 Group exhibition at the Ravenscourt Galleries, Moscow, Russia.

2007 Art-Manege, Moscow, Russia.

2007 Art Moscow, Moscow, Russia.

2006 Art Miami, Miami, USA.

2006 Art Palm Beach, Palm Beach, USA.

2006 Art Moscow, Moscow, Russia.

2005 London Art Fair, London, UK.

2004 Paris Autumn Salon, Paris, France.

2004 London Art Fair, London, UK.

2003 Art-Manege, Moscow, Russia.

2002 Artists of Bashkortostan. Russian Art Institute, Moscow, Russia.

2001 Art-Manege, Moscow, Russia.

2000 Art-Manege, Moscow, Russia.

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:

• The Omsk M. A. Vrubel Museum of Fine Arts, Omsk, Russia.
• The M. B. Nesterov Republican Art Museum, Bashkortostan Republic, Russia; Krasnoyarsk Cultural-Historical Museum Complex, Krasnoyarsk, Russia; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow.
• Erarta, the Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art, St Petersburg.