Awards

2004 — Silver Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts for a series of paintings
2005 — Prix du Public Award "Discovery of the Year", Switzerland
2013 — Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts

Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

1996 — Solo exhibition at the Vinatea Gallery (Valencia, Spain).
1998 — Solo exhibition in Prague (Czech Republic).
1998 — Solo exhibition at the "Manege" Central Exhibition Hall (Moscow, Russia).
2000 — Solo exhibition at the Nadir Gallery (Valencia, Spain).
2001 — Solo exhibition at the Getouw Cultural Center (Mol, Belgium).
2003 — "Baby Talk" solo exhibition at the "Manege" Central Exhibition Hall (Moscow, Russia).
2005 — Solo exhibition at the Nadir Gallery (Valencia, Spain).
2018 — Solo exhibition at the M. V. Nesterov Bashkir State Art Museum (Ufa, Russia).
2021 — Solo painting exhibition at the SDM Gallery (Moscow, Russia).
2022 — Solo exhibition at the Vmeste (Together) Gallery (Moscow, Russia).

Group Exhibitions (Selected)

1989 — Group exhibition of Moscow artists at the Central House of Artists (CHA) (Moscow, USSR).
1989 — Group exhibition of Soviet art at the Asbæk Gallery (Denmark).
1990 — Exhibition of five artists in Nafpaktos (Greece).
1990 — The 1st "ART MYTH I" International Art Fair at the Central House of Artists (Moscow, USSR).
1991 — Major exhibition of M'ARS Gallery artists in Rome (Italy).
1992 — The 2nd "ART MYTH II" International Art Fair (Moscow, Russia).
1993 — "The Russian Theme" exhibition at the Prague Center for Russian Culture (Czech Republic).
1997 — The landmark exhibition "The World of Sensuous Things in Pictures" at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow, Russia).
2009 — "Non-Format" exhibition at the "New Manege" Moscow State Exhibition Hall (Moscow, Russia).
2010 — The major exhibition project "Family Values" at the "New Manege" Moscow State Exhibition Hall (Moscow, Russia).
2013 — "Prototypes" (Proobrazy) large-scale project at the Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery, Russian Academy of Arts (19 Prechistenka St., Moscow, Russia).

Collections

Works by Alexey Charugin are held in museum, gallery, and private collections worldwide:

Yekaterinburg Picture Gallery
Museum of Modern Art on Petrovka, Moscow
State Art Museum, Yoshkar-Ola
Private collections, archives, and galleries in Russia, the USA, France, Belgium, Spain, Greece, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Brazil, and Cyprus.

Selected Bibliography

1990 — Lipatov, V. "Vne zhanra, ili proroki i prorochestva" [Beyond the Genre, or Prophets and Prophecies]. In Otrazhenie 90 [Reflection 90] anthology. Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya.
1992 — Bykova, I., and Reshetnikova, L. "Iskusstvo, biznes, psihologiya" [Art, Business, Psychology]. Sputnik Digest magazine, November.
1993 — Alexei Charugin. Russian Theme. Exhibition catalogue. Moscow: Ivanov Art Agency.
2000 — Charugin, A. (illus.). Onliriya [Art publication].
2011 — Pushkin, A.S. Eugene Onegin [Artistic design and illustrations by A. Charugin].
2017 — Koval, Yu.I. Krasnaya boroda [The Red Beard]. Collection of fairy tales and poems [Illustrations by A. Charugin]. Moscow: Melik-Pashayev Publishing House.

Alexey Charugin

Alexey Charugin was born in 1961 in Moscow. His journey into professional art began with a fundamental academic education: in 1985, he successfully graduated from the Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute, where he studied in the workshop of K. A. Tutevol. He has been a member of the Moscow Union of Artists (MUA) since 1990. Alexey Charugin's work was honored with the international Prix du public "Discovery of the Year" award in Switzerland.

The artist has been actively exhibiting at Russian and international venues since 1981, participating in youth, republican, and international exhibitions held in Russia, Denmark, Italy, Belgium, Greece, and Far Eastern countries.

He lives and works in Moscow.

Works by the Artist

Winter – Summer. 2007

Oil on Canvas, 80 x 60 cm

Adam and Eve. The Tree of Paradise. 2001

Oil on Canvas, 80 x 60 cm

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