Pavel Otdelnov is a multimedia artist working mostly in painting, installations and exploring such subjects as urban space, the environment, historical memory and Soviet history.
Pavel Otdelnov was born in 1979 in Dzerzhinsk, Russia. He graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after Surikov and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Moscow. He has lived and worked in London since 2022. From 1996, Pavel Otdelnov has exhibited widely in both public and private contexts in Russia, Sweden, the UK and elsewhere.
He was nominated for the Kandinsky Prize In 2015, 2017, 2019, in the category of ‘Project of the Year’, and in 2021 he became a finalist in this category. In 2017 he received an award at the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Awards. He won the Artist of the Year the Innovation State Prize in 2020. Furthermore, 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), and the Pushkin Museum (Moscow), as well as in private and corporate collections worldwide.
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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
Private and corporate and collections worldwide