Chezhin Andrey

Chezhin Andrey

Biography

Was Born in Leningrad in 1960. Graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Film Engineers (1982). At the same time began to take photographs. Member of the "Mirror" photo club (1985). Member of the group "TAK" (1987-1996). Member of the Fotopostscriptum art association (1993). Member of The Russian Union of Art Photographers (1995). Member of Association "Free Culture" (1996). Since 1998 member of the International Federation of Artists (IFA). Organizer and council member of annual Autumn Photomarathon festival (1999-2005). Director of the ФОТОimage gallery and personal museum of contemporary art Museum of Stationery Button. Currently works as a freelance photographer. Author of 90 personal exhibitions and participant in 180 group exhibitions in Russia and abroad.

Credo:

- The unpredictability of the photographic process; 

- The conceptuality of the photographic process; 

- The self-sufficiency of the photographic means of expression.

Personal exhibitions:

1993 – «Self-portrait 366 days», Saint-Marcellin, France 
1994 – «Visiting Bulla», gallery «21», Saint Petersburg 
1996 – «96 photos», Central exhibition hall «Manezh», St.Petersburg 
1997 – «7 Platforms AHE» (1st International Festival of Free Art «Solntsevorot»), Baltic House, St.Petersburg 
1998 – «Sleep» (St.Petersburg - Warsaw), Mala galeria, Warsaw 
1998 – «Kharmsiade & From the Life of Thumb-pins», NONAME gallery, Rotterdam 
1999 – «Russian Lens on Washington. Andrey Chezhin: New Angles», District of Columbia Art Center, Washington, D.C. 
2000 - St.Petersburg, Escher Series. Anya Tish gallery, Houston FotoFest, Texas.
2000 – «Trace of the Gulag», NONAME gallery, FotoBiennale, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. 
2000 – «Capital destruction - rearranging landmarks», Hovedbiblioteket, Esbjerg, Danmark.
2000 – «Touching St.-Petersburg», Multihus Tobaksfabrikken, Esbjerg, Danmark. 
2000 – «Retrospective 1988-2000», Galeria Z, Month of Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia. 
2001 – «Postmodernist Petersburg», Samara Museum of Art, Samara. 
2002 – «Harmsias», Giedre Bartelt Galerie, Berlin. «Sailor's Dreams», 21st Century Gallery, Prague.  
2002 – «The Button and Modernism», National Library, Prague. 
2002 - Andrey Chezhin, Gomez gallery, Baltimore, USA. 
2003 – «Transformations of the Gaze», noname gallery, Rotterdam. 
2004 – «Hands», Mikhail Shemyakin Foundation, Saint Petersburg.
2004 – «Nevsky Baptistry», FotoFest, Vine Street Studios, Houston, USA. 
2004 – «Thumbtacks and modernism», Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, USA.
2004 – «Self-Portrait 366 Days», Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Moscow. 2005 – «Thumbtacks and Modernism», Yaroslavl Art Museum, Yaroslavl.
2005 – «Holy Royal Passion-Bearers», Orthodox fair, Central Exhibition Hall Manezh, St.-Petersburg. 
2006 – «Thumbtacks and modernism», The Visual Arts Gallery, Adirondack Community College, Queensbury, USA.
2006 – «Lifelines. Anna Akhmatova», Anna Akhmatova Museum at the Fountain House, Saint Petersburg. 
2007 - The Button and Modernism (within the exhibition Close Up), Manezh Exhibition Hall, St Petersburg. 
2009 – «City-text», gallery «ART-propaganda», Samara.
2009 – «City-text», The Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk. 
2010 – «I love this City...», gallery «Sputnik», New York, USA.
2010 – «America by eyes», FotoFest, Russian cultural center «Our Texas», Houston, USA. 
2010 – «Przestrzen Eschera», Piwnica Kany, Szczecin, Poland.
2010 – «Swiatlopis», Stara Cerkiew, Szczecin, Poland. 
2011 – «Button and Modernism», PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm. 
2012 – «Unknown Button», Gallery «Greenhouse», Art Center Pushkinskaya-10, St. Petersburg.  
2012 – «New York, New York» (with N.Zarovna), gallery «Sputnik», New York, USA. 
2012 – «Squares. Conversation with Malevich», Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk.  
2012 - Window from Europe, Photografiti festival, PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm. 
2013 - Andrey Chegin «Dialog mistrza i miasta», Sweden center Brama Portowa 1, Szczecin, Poland.
2014 – «OMAGE TO ROUAN COUNTRY», Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Gallery of European and American Art of the 19th-20th Centuries, Moscow. 
2017 – «Button and Modernism», Rouen Cathedrals, Novosibirsk Museum of Art, Novosibirsk. 
2018 – «Button and Modernism», Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg. 
2019 – «Escher's Space», Siberian branch of ROSIZO-GCCI, Tomsk.
2023 – «Key of Vision by Andrey Chezhin», Béton Center of Visual Culture
2023 – «Kharmsiade». 1st fair of contemporary art |catalog|. Moscow. Russia (group exhibition)
2024 – «Button and Modernism», «Escher's Space». 2nd fair of contemporary art |catalog|. Moscow. Russia (group exhibition)
      

Collections

The State Hermitage, Saint Petersburg; The Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg; The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow; The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; The Russian National Library, Saint Petersburg; ROSPHOTO State Museum and Exhibition Center, Saint Petersburg; Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, Saint Petersburg; Gatchina Museum-Preserve, Priory Palace; Free Culture Society Collection, Saint Petersburg; Museum of Photographic Collections, Moscow; Foundation of Fine Arts, Moscow; Russian Museum, Moscow. Museum of Photography, Perm; Tomsk Regional Art Museum, Tomsk; The Navigator Fondation, Boston, USA; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, USA; Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida, USA; The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswik, NJ, USА ; Muzeo Ken Damy, Brescia, Italy; Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesney Zamek Ujazdowski; William Hunt Collection, New-York,USA ; Palladian Collection, New-York, USA; Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA; Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, USA; The Brooklyn Museum, NewYork, USA; Muzeo d'Arte Contemporanea di Milano ; The Hechinger Collection, USA; Collection the Royal Bank of Scotland in Houston, The Brandts Musseet for Fotokunst in Odense, Denmark.

 

Private collections 

Joshua P.Smith, Lucian Perkins, Ursula Herbrand, Paul Zimmer, Michael Peltsman, Manfred Schmmalriede, Henry Mendelssohn Buhl, Finn Thrane, Bleddyn Phillips, Kevin Lewis.

Exhibitions

The World of Photoplane
22.04.2022 - 29.05.2022
From Lapot to Union
22.07.2022 - 10.09.2022
Photomontage. Corrected Truth
21.09.2022 - 21.01.2023
Key of Vision by Andrey Chezhin
18.04.2023 - 18.06.2023

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