Valery Mishin

Woman with a flower. 1989, mezzotint

Painter, graphic artist and printmaker (lithography, etching, mezzotint). Graduated from Sverdlovsk Art School (1962); Department of Monumental Painting, Leningrad Higher Art School named after V.I. Mukhina (1963-1968). Member of Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, Russia; St. Petersburg Union of Writers; International Federation of UNESCO Artists. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation. Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts.[3][4] Member of Lestnitsa Group (1975-2016).[5]

Exhibitor of nonconformist artists exhibition in the Nevsky Palace of Culture (1975). Participant of more than 300 exhibitions (since 1966) in Russia and abroad: Warsaw, Ghent, London, Mainz, Mexico City, Paris, Stockholm, etc. Twenty personal exhibitions (since 1969). Was published in samizdat as a poet and writer (since 1960s). Has illustrated over 50 books. Master of bookplate. Diploma-recipient of foreign exhibitions. Project member: City as an Artist's Subjectivity (2020).[6]

Lives and works in St. Petersburg.

The artist's works are in the following museum collections (about 300). State Catalogue of the Museum Fund of Russia:[7]

• Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow);
• State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg);
• State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg);
• MISP (the Museum of St. Petersburg Art (20th–21st centuries), (St. Petersburg);
• National Pushkin Museum (St. Petersburg);
• State Pushkin Museum (St. Petersburg);
• Dostoevsky Museum (St. Petersburg);
• State Museum of the History of Saint Petersburg;
• Museum of Modern Art, St.Petersburg State University (St. Petersburg);
• State Museum of Urban Sculpture (St. Petersburg);
• Peterhof State Museum Reserve;
• Museum of Nonconformist Art, Pushkinskaya 10 (St. Petersburg);
• MMOMA (Moscow); Kaliningrad State Art Gallery (Kaliningrad);
• Belgian National Playing Card Museum (Turnhout, Belgium);
• Bristol Museum and Art Gallery (England);
• Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA);
• Gutenberg Museum (Mainz, Germany);
• Museum House of Humor and Satire (Gabrovo, Bulgaria);
• Civic Museum of Crema (Crema, Lombardy), etc.

• Погарский М., Лукин В. Ф. Энциклопедия Книги художника. Москва — 2022. цв. ил. — 296 с. — С. 164. ISBN 978-5-9906919-7-1
• Кононихин Н. Ленинградская школа литографии. Путь длиною в век. СПб: М. Frants Art Foundation. — 2021. — 360 с., цв. ил. ISBN 978-5-6046274-4-0
• Alexey Parygin A City as the Artist's Subjectivity // Book Arts Newsletter. — No. 140. Bristol: CFPR (Centre for Fine Print Research). University of the West of England, 2021, July — August. — P. 46-48. ISSN 1754-9086
• Печатная графика Санкт-Петербургских художников // Каталог. Авт. вст. ст.: Н. Ю. Кононихин, А. Б. Парыгин. СПб: СПб СХ. — 2020. — 192 с., цв. ил. ISBN 978-5-6043891-1-9
• City as Artist's subjectivity. Artist's book project. Catalog. Authors of the articles: Parygin A.B., Markov T.A., Klimova E.D., Borovsky A.D., Severyukhin D.Ya., Grigoryants E.I., Blagodatov N.I. (Rus & En) — Saint Petersburg: Ed. T. Markova. 2020. — 128 p. ISBN 978-5-906281-32-6[8]

• Works in the Museums in Russia
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