Biography

Pavel Otdelnov (b. 1979, Dzerzhinsk, USSR) is a London-based artist. He graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after Surikov and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Moscow. Since 1996, he has exhibited extensively in Russia, Sweden, the UK, and beyond.

He was nominated for the Kandinsky Prize in 2015, 2017, and 2019 (Project of the Year), and became a finalist in 2021. He received a Special Award from the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Awards in 2017, and in 2020 was named both Artist of the Year by the Innovation Prize and by the Cosmoscow Foundation.

His works are part of museum, corporate, and private collections, including the Uppsala Art Museum, Kalmar Art Museum (Sweden), the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Russia)

 

Education

2013 — 2015 Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow

2005 — 2007 Postgraduate in Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute

1999 — 2005 Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute, Painting Department

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, 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, Denmark

2013 Nominee for the STRABAG Art Award International, Austria

 

Collections

Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden

Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden

Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia

The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Russia

The Institute of Russian Realist Art (IRRA), Moscow, Russia

Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Museum of Contemporary Art Erarta, St. Petersburg, Russia

Novoriznitsa Balkan, Tivat, Montenegro

Stavropol Region Museum of Fine Arts, Russia

Creative Industrial Cluster Oktava, Tula, Russia

Scientific and Technological Museum, Novokuznetsk, Russia

Dzerzhinsk Local Lore Museum, Dzerzhinsk, Russia

Private and corporate collections worldwide