Chesnokov Ladyzhenskiy Sergey – Grad-R

Born in Moscow, Russia, in 1954, Sergey started painting in oil and tempera in 1975. He graduated in arts from the Moscow Institute of Technology in 1983. He exhibited his work in many art shows of Moscow painters and became a member of Moscow Artists Union in 1984. He has participated in a number of group shows and held many individual shows in Germany, Spain, Austria and Russia. Many national collections store his works: various Moscow galleries, Scholoss Morsbroich Museum in Leverkusen, museum in Italy, a musemn in Prague, as well as private collections in Russia, Germany, Czech Republic, the USA, France, Hungary, Italy and elsewhere. Since 1983 he has been teaching drawing, painting and composition. He is a member of the UNESCO International Federation of Artists and the winner of the Golden Brush award at the international competition organised by Moscow Arts Institute. He is an associate professor in the Department of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture at the Institute of Humanities and Applied Arts in Moscow. Apart from the medium of painting, he works in graphics, sculpture and applied arts.