Shorin Dmitry

Dmitry Shorin's paintings are immediately recognizable – influenced by photography and referencing mass media images, he paints beautiful young girls almost exclusively. Frequently placing his fragile and ephemeral heroines in the heavens paired with airplanes, his paintings are uncanny. Matte and somewhat drained of colour, Shorin's images are rife with unease created by a repressed yet ever present psychological eroticism. The girls he paints are constantly observed, their images created for and consumed by consumer society, but Shorin's presentation of them is them is that of the voyeur, the unseen observer.

Dmitry Shorin was born in Novosibirsk in 1971. He studied in the Graphic Art Department at the M. Gorky Teaching Institute in Omsk and continued his studies at the Omsk Academy of Service specialising in costume design, graduating in 1990. That same year, he moved to St. Petersburg where he commenced special post-graduate studies. In 1993 he was admitted to the Association of Artists and in 1998 he joined the UNESCO International Federation of Artists. He continues to live and work in St. Petersburg.

Artist Shorin Dmitry

Dmitry Shorin was born in Novosibirsk in 1971. He lives and works in St. Petersburg.

Since 1993 has been a member of the Association of Artists “Free Culture” (“Pushkinskaya, 10” Art Centre, St. Petersburg). Since 1998 has been a member of the UNESCO International Federation of Artists.


Education

  • 1987–1988 — Graphic Art Department at the M. Gorky Teaching Institute, Omsk
  • 1988–1990 — Academy of Consumer Services (Omsk), specialization: Costume Design
  • 1990–1992 — Academy of Consumer Services (St. Petersburg), specialization: Costume Design


Solo exhibitions

  • 1996 — Gallery “21”, Moscow; “Pushkinskaya, 10” Art Centre, St. Petersburg
  • 2000 — “Borey” Art Centre, St. Petersburg; “DOM” Cultural Centre, Moscow
  • 2003 — “DOM” Cultural Centre, Moscow; “Borey” Art Centre, St. Petersburg; “Girls from the Next House”, “Fine Art” Gallery, Moscow
  • 2004 — “Appetite”, “Fine Art” Gallery, Moscow
  • 2005 — “Girls’ Best Friends”, 1st Moscow biennale of Modern Art, Parallel Program at “Fine Art” Gallery, Moscow
  • 2005 — “Aeroclub”, “Fine Art” Gallery, Moscow
  • 2005 — “Mannequins” (in collaboration with D. Provotorov), “Fine Art” Gallery, Moscow
  • 2006 — “Time not Forever”, “Fine Art” Gallery, Moscow
  • 2007 — “Parts of a Body”, “Fine Art” Gallery, Moscow
  • 2008 — “Wind”, “Fine Art” Gallery, Moscow; “Dmitry Shorin in the Russian Museum”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
  • 2009 — “Desktop: War and Peace”, 3rd Moscow Biennale of Modern Art, Parallel Program at “Fine Art” Gallery, Moscow; “Rookery” (in collaboration with D. Provotorov), “AL Gallery”, St. Petersburg
  • 2010 — “Small Pleasures”, “Fine Art” Gallery, Moscow
  • 2011 — “Holidays”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow; personal exhibition, Zurab Tseretelli Gallery, The Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow; “Flowers and Planes”, “Fine Art” Gallery, Moscow
  • 2012 — “We are (not) Alone”, Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg
  • 2013 — “I Believe in Angels”, Erarta Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland; “The Private Space”, “Fine Art” Gallery, Moscow
  • 2015— “Analogue of God”, Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg

 

Selected group exhibitions 

  • 1994 — Gallery “103” and Gallery “21”, “Pushkinskaya, 10” Art Centre, St. Petersburg; International Festival of Performance, “Manege” Central Exhibition Hall, Saint Petersburg
  • 1995 — galleries on Pushkinskaya, 10, St. Petersburg; exhibition of private collections, “Manege” Central Exhibition Hall, Saint Petersburg
  • 1996 — IV St. Petersburg Biennale, Fontanny Dom (Anna Akhmatova Museum at Fountain House), St. Petersburg; 1996 — “The History of Advertising”, Grand Hall of the Artists Union, St. Petersburg
  • 1998, 2000 — “Borey” Art Centre, St. Petersburg
  • 2001 — Museum of Nonconformism, “Pushkinskaya, 10” Art Centre, St. Petersburg
  • 2002 — Contemporary Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 2003–2007 — “Fine Art” Gallery, Moscow
  • 2006 — “ARCO”, Madrid, Spain; “HangART-7”, Salzburg, Austria
  • 2007 — “Art-Athina”, International Contemporary Art Fair, Athens, Greece
  • 2008 — “Sotheby's” Auction, London, Great Britain; “Viennafair”, Vienna, Austria
  • 2009–2010 — “Self-portrait”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
  • 2010 — CAC Meymac, France; “Airfield”, “AL Gallery”, St. Petersburg
  • 2011 — “Windows and Doors”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; Auction “Phillips de Pury & Company”, London, Great Britain; “SCOPE” Art Fair, Miami, USA
  • 2012 — “Art Moscow”, 16th International Art Fair, Grand Hall of the Artists Union, St. Petersburg
  • 2013 — “Art Paris” Art Fair, Paris, France


Public Collections

  • Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg
  • Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
  • The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg