Alexander Alexandrovich Belykh

Biography, Personal exhibitions, Exhibitions, Video, Gallery

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Alexander Belych and James Joung
Alexander Belych and James Joung

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Biography

Alexander Alexandrovich Belykh was born in 1940 in the village of Staraya Kurba, Zaigrayevsky District, Buryatia in Southern Siberia, near Lake Baikal. His father was killed in 1944 in the Great Patriotic War (WWII) and, at the age of nine, Alexander went to live in the Irkutsk region where his stepfather was employed as a geologist.
The young boy grew up accompanying his parents on geological expeditions to distant parts of Siberia, so remote that essential supplies had to be dropped by plane
My life was spent in the forest gathering mushrooms and berries. I have seen bears, wild boar, eagles, wild goats, deer, elk, many animals… except the tiger.’ The tiger, repeated so often in his work, is the one animal he has never encountered other than in his dream life. He lived in Vladimir with his wife Nina and died of cancer in 2012.

Personal exhibitions

  1. Center for Contemporary Art, Gallery of “The Gift”, Moscow, 1994
  2. Museum of Naive Art. Moscow,2008
  3. Art Naive, Moscow, 2012

Exhibitions

  1. From the naive art to kitsch. Pavilion “Soviet Culture” Exhibition of Economic Achievements of the USSR, Moscow,1990-1991
  2. Golden Dream. Center for Contemporary Art, Gallery of “The Gift”, Moscow, 1992
  3.  Erste Begegnung mit der Russische Naive, Museum Charlotte Zander, Schloss Boennigheim, 1999
  4. Pushkin’s images in the works of naive artists of Russia.A traveling exhibition on the 200th anniversary of the birth of Alexander Pushkin. The project of the Museum of Naive Art. Moscow, Festival of Russian Art “Russia – New Century.” Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France, 1999
  5. Russian naive.” Naïve Art Museum Charlotte Zander, Germany, 2001
  6.  Festnaiv 2004,  Moscow International Festival of naive art and outsider art? The project of the Museum of Naive Art? Russian State Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art, Moscow, 2004
  7. Historical and Cultural Heritage of Moscow. Creative achievements of the capital. ” Central Exhibition Hall “Manege”, Moscow,  2006
  8. Festnaiv 2007, Moscow International Festival of naive art and outsider art. The project of the Museum of Naive Art. Moscow, Moscow Museum of Modern Art; Ulyanovsk, Folk Museum Regional center of folk art and art; Ivanovo, Ivanovo Regional Art Museum,  2007-2008
  9. Russian sphinx. Museum of Naive Art, Moscow, 2008
  10. Museum of everything, Contemporary Art Center “Garage”, 2013

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