Alexander Dodon

Curriculum Vitae

 

1966           Born in Gatchina

1995           Diploma in the Repin Art Institute of Russian Academy of Arts /under prof. A.A.Pakhomov/

1995-1998  Teacher at the Saint Petersburg State Arts and Industrial Academy 

since 1996  Member of the Union of Artists of Russia

since 1996  Founding member of the St. Petersburg Society of Watercolorists

since 2021  Member of the Fondation Taylor

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1993           Laureate of the international competition "New Pictures at an Exhibition" (Vienna, Austria)

2013           Laureate of the competition for the best architectural and artistic design of firewalls (St. Petersburg)

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Personal exhibitions:

 

2000          «Inventory» project /St. Petersburg, Kuntskamera/

2001          British Council /St. Petersburg/

2002          Alfa-bank /St. Petersburg/

2005          PSK bank /Gatchina/

2011          gallery "Purple Butterfly" /Limassol, Cyprus/

2012          gallery "StArtAcademy" /St. Petersburg/

2012          "Do-gallery" /St. Petersburg/

2014          Scientific-research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts /St. Petersburg/

2014          Art Hotel Trezzini /St. Petersburg/

2014          Library them. N. V. Gogol /St. Petersburg/

2018          "Park" project /Gatchina Palace and Estate Museum/

 

Selected group exhibitions:

 

1991          "Form" /St. Petersburg, Academy of Arts/

1993          «New pictures of an exhibition» /Vienna, Austria, bank CA/

1993           "The first Viennese gallery of paintings in the open air" /Vienna, Austria/

since 1994 Has been taking part in the exhibitions of the Union of Artists of Saint Petersburg

1996          "Dlugopole-96" /Bystrzytsa Klodska, Poland/

1997         "Workshop" /State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg/

                 "Feelings and Thoughts" /Museum of Urban Sculpture, St. Petersburg/

                  Dlugopole-97" /Bystrzytsa Klodska, Poland/

1998          "Acuarelas de Russia" /National Museum of Mexican Watercolors, Mexico City, Mexico/

1999          "People's Pushkin" /St. Petersburg, gallery "Borey"/

                  "From the avant-garde to the present day" International Festival of Arts /St. Petersburg State Philharmonic/

2000          "III International Festival of Performance and Experimental Art" /St. Petersburg, Manege/

2001          “Mexico-Russia. Watercolor" /St. Petersburg, Manege/

                   Dembel album. Russian Art Brut” /Anna Akhmatova State Museum, St. Petersburg/

2002          "Russian Modern Art" /gallery "DeHerkenning", Wittelte, Holland/

2006          "Dialogue with Japan" /St. Petersburg, Anichkov Palace/

2008          "Artists of Russia" /PRC, Shenzhen, Hangzhou/

                  "Painting of St. Petersburg" /PRC, Shanghai/

2010          International exhibition "Motherhood and childhood" /St. Petersburg, State Capella/

                  International exhibition "Interfolk" /St. Petersburg, State Academy named after A.L. Stieglitz/

2011          "Alice in Wonderland" /St. Petersburg, gallery "StArtAkademiya"/

2012          "The city that does not exist" /Russian Center for Science and Culture, Helsinki, Finland/

2013          "The Cat That Doesn't Exist" /Russian Center for Science and Culture, Helsinki, Finland/

                  "Time that does not exist" /Russian Center for Science and Culture, Helsinki, Finland/

2020          "Art Capital" /Grand Palais, Paris, France/

 

Book design:

 

1990         "Informontazh-2 & Framework-2" (ATLAS, St. Petersburg)

1999         "Avionics of Russia" (NAAP, St. Petersburg)

2000         Kawabata Yasunari (Azbuka, St. Petersburg)

2001         Lewis Carroll "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" ("Azbuka", St. Petersburg)

2002         Angelus Silesius ("Yantarny Skaz", Kaliningrad)

2013         V. G. Sharonova "Necropolis of Russian Shanghai" ("Old Basmannaya", Moscow)

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Alexander is working in the area of mural (website:  http://dodonart.wix.com/artel ) and easel painting, graphic arts and book design.

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