Pavel Otdelnov was born in 1979 in Dzerzhinsk, Russia. He graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I.Surikov and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Moscow. Since 1996 he is a participant of exhibitions (Russia, Italy, Spain, Germany, USA, Denmark, Sweden, Austria, Slovenia, Hungary, Finland, Poland, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan). Pavel Otdelnov lives and works in Moscow, Russia.
In 2015, 2017 and 2019, he was nominated for the Kandinsky Prize in the nomination Project of the Year. In 2017 he became a laureate of the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award (Special prize of the French Institute). In 2020 he became a laureate of the Innovation State Prize in the nomination Artist of the Year. In 2020 Otdelnov was called The Artist of the Year by Cosmoscow Foundation. His works are in collections of The Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, Russia), The State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow, Russia), The Institute of Russian Realist Art (IRRA) (Moscow, Russia), National Center of Contemporary Art (NCCA) – The Puskin Museum (Moscow, Russia), Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia), as well as in corporative and private collections worldwide.
Education:
2013 — 2015 Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2005 — 2007 M.F.A. in Painting, Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute
1999 — 2005 B.F.A. in Painting, Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute
1995 — 1999 Nizhny Novgorod Art College
Awards and Honors:
2020 Laureate of the Innovation Prize, Artist of the Year
2020 Artist of the year by the International Cosmoscow contemporary Art Fair
2019 Long list of the Kandinsky Art Award 2019 with the project Psychozoic era
2017 Long list of the Kandinsky Art Award 2017 with the project White sea. Black hole
"The Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award 2016", Special award of French Institute in St.Petersburg
2015 Long list of Moscow Biennale Prize
2015 Long list of the Kandinsky Art Award 2015 with the project Inner Degunino
2015 Finalist of the international juried show Portrait Now, Juror: Jacob Christian Jacobsen, Denmark
2014 Winner of the Three Best Exhibitions of 2014 Readers Choice Award for the Inner Degunino exhibition, AroundArt Contemporary Art Journal, Russia
2013 Winner of the LomonosovArt award for the intellectual achievements in contemporary art, Lomonosov University, Russia
2013 Nominee for the STRABAG Art Award International, Austria
2005-2006 Recipient of the Ministry of Culture of Russia Grant, Russia
Collections:
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow
The Institute of Russian Realist Art (IRRA), Moscow
National Center of Contemporary Art (NCCA) — The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Museum, St. Petersburg
Museum of Contemporary Art Erarta, St. Petersburg
Stavropol Region Museum of Fine Arts
Creative Industrial Cluster Oktava, Tula
Scientific and Technological Museum, Novokuznetsk
Dzerzhinsk Local Lore Museum, Dzerzhinsk
Gazprombank Corporate Art Collection, Moscow
STB Bank Corporate Art Collection, Moscow
The Foundation of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin, Moscow
Aksenov Family Foundation, Moscow
Moscow Union of Artists Collection, Moscow
Contemporary art gallery Victoria, Samara
Kovcheg gallery, Moscow
Gorbachev Foundation, Moscow
Russian Academy of Art, Moscow
Corporate and private collections