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. He lives in London.
Since 1996, Pavel Otdelnov has shown widely in both public and private contexts in Russia and elsewhere. In 2022, he had solo shows at Pushkin House, London, Uppsala Art Museum, Uppsala, and Kalmar Art Museum, Kalmar. From 2011-2012, he had a series of solo shows in Spain; at Casa de Los Picos, Segovia, Juana Frances hall, Madrid Museo Casa Natal de Cervantes, Alcala de Henares, and the Cultural center Quinta del Berro, Madrid. He also participated in exhibitions at MG+MSUM, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, the Maritime Centre Vellamo, Kotka, Frederiksborg Castle, Copenhagen, Ljungberg Museum, Ljungby, and Erarta gallery in New York.
In 2015, 2017, and 2019, he was nominated for the Kandinsky Prize in the nomination Project of the Year. In 2021 he became a Finalist for the Kandinsky Prize in the nomination Project of the Year. In 2017 he became a Laureate of the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award (A special prize of the French Institute). In 2020 he became a Winner of the Innovation State Prize in the Artist of the Year nomination. In 2020 Otdelnov was called The Artist of the Year by the Cosmoscow Foundation.
His works are in the collections of The Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), The State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), the Uppsala Art Museum (Uppsala), the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow), The Institute of Russian Realist Art (IRRA) (Moscow), the National Center of Contemporary Art (NCCA) – The Pushkin Museum (Moscow), Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Museum (St. Petersburg), 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:
2021 Finalist of the Kandinsky Art Award with the project PROMZONA
2020 Winner 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 with the project Psychozoic era
2017 Long list of the Kandinsky Art Award with the project White sea. Black hole
2017 The Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award, a Special award of the French Institute in St.Petersburg
2015 Long list of the Kandinsky Art Award with the project Inner Degunino
2015 Finalist of the international juried show Portrait Now, Juror: Jacob Christian Jacobsen, Denmark
2013 Nominee for the STRABAG Art Award International, Austria
Collections:
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden
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
New Jerusalem Museum, Moscow region
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