Born in St.Petersburg, Russia
EDUCATION
2008 - 2009 Royal Drawing School, London, UK
2005 - 2007 Royal College of Art, London, UK
1995 - 2000 Bezalel Academy of Arts, Jerusalem, Israel
1999 Ecole des Beaux Arts, (Student Exchange Program), Paris, France
SELECTED TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2024 Sapir collage
2017 Landscape Painting, Austin University, USA
2016 New Barbizon Painting Workshop, MFA Bezalel Academy, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 – 2017 New Barbizon Painting Studio, Tahana School, Tel Aviv, Israel
2010 - 2014 Drawing, Bezalel Academy of Art & Design, Jerusalem, Israel
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2014 Bezalel Historical Building Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
2013 Nora Gallery, with Sasha Okun, Jerusalem, Israel
2012 Bineth Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2003 Nora Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
2002 "Petersburg Diary" Petersburg Judaica/Institute of Art, St. Petersburg, Russia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Ways of Drawing, Prince of Wales Foundation, London, UK
2018 80 Years of Israeli Art, Ein Harod Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Israel 2017 American Dream. UT Gallery, Austin, USA
2017 Children want communism, Kunstlerhause Bethenian, Berlin, Germany 2016 Back To Life, Ein Harod Museum, Ein Harod, Israel
2016 Regarding Africa, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
2016 Children want communism, Moby Museum, Bat Yam, Israel
2016 Metropolis, Haifa Museum, Haifa, Israel
2015 Barbizon Exhibition, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2015 Around Charms, Kultproject Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2014 Portraits and Landscapes. Gallery C1, Berlin, Germany
2014 Chicago Triangle, Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
2014 New Barbizon Open Studio, The New Bus Station, Tel Aviv, Israel
2014 Only Truth, Gallery “Beyt Ha Adom”, Tel Aviv, Israel
2014 Drawings in Hura, Hura Communtiny Center, Israel
2014 Living in a Film, Hansen Art Center, Jerusalem, Israel
2014 Drawing Outside, Bar David Museum of Art, Israel
2013 Centrifuge, Nathan Cummings foundation, New York ,USA
2013 White nights in Perm , PERMM, Perm Museum, Russia
2013 Beer Sheva Market, The Negev Museum of Art, Israel
2012 Cargo-cult, Moby, Bat-Yam Museum of Art, Israel
2012 Pretty Gritty City, Prince of Wales Foundation, London, UK
2011 Landscapes of Immigration, Kultproject Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2011 The Culture Has No Season, Mamuta, Jerusalem, Israel
2011 Close your Mouth and Say One Word, Rotshild Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
2009 Dialects 2, Pushkin House, London, UK
2008 Uncut, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
2007 Siberia Nights", Siberia Project Space, London, UK
2007 Animacity, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
2005 Objects and Compassion, Galery 33, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2005 2 Drawing Biennale, Artists House, Jerusalem, Israel
2004 View From The Window, "Pravda 6" Gallery, St.Petersburg
2002 Sotheby's Auction, London, UK
2001,2002 Annual Exhibition, Manezh, St.Petersburg, Russia
1998 Four Jerusalem Artists, Artists House, Jerusalem, Israel
SELECTED FESTIVALS
"PECATUM PARVUM" (Animation, 2007)
2008 – 2009
KAFF Film Festival, Hungary
MIAF, Melbourne Festival, Australia
Dresden Film Festival, Germany
Red Stick Festival, USA
Zagreb Film Festival, Croatia
Krakow Film Festival, Poland
Stoke your fires, UK
SIKAF, Korea
RIFF, Rome Film Festival, Italy
Edinburgh Film Festival, Scotland
ANIMAMUNDI Festival, Spain
Messages to Man, St.Petersburg, Russia
London Animation Film Festival, UK
Leipzig DOC Festival,Germany
Ottawa Film Festival, Canada
Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, Germany
KROK, Russia
Beginning, St. Petersburg, Russia
Anima Basauri, Bilbao
Euroshorts, Warsaw, Poland
Multivision, St.Petersburg, Russia
Wales One World Film Festival, Wales
Haifa Film Festival, Israel
"NOTES FROM THE SANATORIUM" (Animation, 2006)
2007
SICAF, Korea
Leipzig DOC Film Festival, Germany
PISAF 2007, Korea
Krakow Festival, Poland
ANIFEST 07, Czech Republic
AFIA Film Festival, Denmark
Future Film Festival, Italy
Anima Basauri, Bilbao
Parnu Festival, Estonia
Tricky Women, Vienna
Cologne Festival, Germany
Dresden Film Festival ", Germany
Eat our shorts, London, UK
Siberia Nights, London, UK
AWARDS & BURSARIES
Prince of Wales Residency, Dumfries House, Scotland 2021 (works acquired by Prince of Wales Collection)
Schusterman Visiting Artist Program, Austin University, USA, 2017
Asylum Grant, USA, 2016
Film Funding, Ostrovsky Family Fund, 2016
Studio Grant, Mamuta Center for Art and Media, Jerusalem, 2011
Winsor Newton Prize for the Best Drawing, London, 2009
Prince's Bursary in Drawing, Prince of Wales Foundation, London 2009
Diploma for the Best Direction, Multivision Fim Festival, St.Petersburg, 2008
Best Puppet Animation, London International Animation Festival, UK. 2008
Award for the Best International Puppet Animation Stoke Your Fires, UK. 2008
Nominated for British Animation Awards, UK. 2008
Passion Pictures Prize, UK 2006
In 2017 participated in Y&S Nazarian Center "Israel in 3D" community conference in University of California, Los Angeles, USA: