BIO

Alexander Chernogrivov born in 1975 in the city of Leningrad.
He began to take up photography in 1994 at the F.K.
1995 entered the St. Petersburg State Academy of Culture, film and photography department, where he studied for one semester.
Since 1995, he has been working as a photographer at the Academy of Technology and Design.
Since 1997, has been active in exhibition activities.
In 2003, he was invited by the City Hall of Paris to the Cite Internationale des Arts, where the most promising young artists from around the world undergo an internship.
Since 2013, collaborates with the school of analog photography (Cabinet).
Currently works as a free-lance photographer.

Personal exhibitions:

2017 – "Portraits". Photoloft "Lighthouse".
2011 – “Reflections”. Museum "Tsarskoye Selo Collection".
2007 – “Controls”. Gallery "One", St. Petersburg.
2007 – “Views”. Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House, St. Petersburg.
2007 – The Soldiers. Information Center / Bureau "PhotoDepartment", St. Petersburg.
2006 – "Reflections", within the framework of the program "Days of St. Petersburg in Riga", City Hall, Riga, Latvia.
2006 – Travel, Angleterre Hotel, St. Petersburg
2005 – "Reflections". Raskolnikov Gallery, St. Petersburg
2005 – "Beasts". Gallery Country Life, St. Petersburg
2005 – "Reflections". Manege of the Cadet Corps, St. Petersburg
2004 – “Photomonotype”, ARTE CONTEMPORANEA, Firenze, Italy.
2004 – Traces of Man. Maisoncafe, Moscow.
2004 – "Faces and Figures", Sigmund Freud Museum of Dreams, East European Institute of Psychoanalysis, St. Petersburg
2003 – Traces of Man. Gallery of Marina Gisich, St. Petersburg.
2003 – Traces of Man. "Drawing room of arts" of Palkin restaurant, St. Petersburg.
2001 – Black Light and Milk. Gallery of Marina Gisich, St. Petersburg.
2000 – The Voynushka. Gallery "PHOTO IMAGE", St. Petersburg.
1995 – State Academy of Culture, St. Petersburg.

Group exhibitions:

2017 – "Winter St. Petersburg". St. Petersburg Union of Artists.
              "The Art of Mystery." Center of Photography "March". Yekaterinburg.
              "Fall 2017". St. Petersburg Union of Artists.
2016 – "Landscapes". Photoloft "Lighthouse".
              "Fall 2016". St. Petersburg Union of Artists.
2014 – "Vario Moda". Information and cultural center of art and music of the library. V.V. Mayakovsky.
2013 – "Reporting exhibition of the School of Analog Photography". Library on Stremyannaya.
2009 – Project “Dome”. Youth Center of the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg.
2009 – “This is Luda.” Cultural Center Loft Project Floors, St. Petersburg.
2007 – Festival "Blitz-R". Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists, St. Petersburg.
2006 – Art-Moscow 2006. Central House of Artists, Moscow.
2006 – Festival "White Nights". Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists, St. Petersburg.
2005 – "Homo photos. Self-portraits of photographers". State Museum of Urban Sculpture, St. Petersburg.
2005 – Art-Moscow 2005. Central House of Artists, Moscow.
2005 – "St. Petersburg School of Silver Photography". MAR’S Gallery
2004 – Art-Moscow 2004. Central House of Artists, Moscow.
2003 – State Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow.
2003 – "Overcoming". State Central Exhibition Hall "On Solyanka", Moscow.
2000 – "Memento Mori (photography as a litle death)". Gallery Navicula Artis, St. Petersburg.
2000 – The Beasts. Theater Baltic House. Theater Festival, St. Petersburg.
1999 – Anatomy of Contemporary Art 2, and others. Gallery Art College, St. Petersburg.
1999 – Autumn Photo Marathon 1999. Art College Gallery, St. Petersburg.
1998 – "Landscape for Men". II International Solstice Festival. Theater Baltic House, St. Petersburg.
1998 – II festival of experimental art and performance. Central Exhibition Hall (Manege), St. Petersburg.
1998 – V St. Petersburg Biennale, Autumn Photo Marathon. Gallery Art College, St. Petersburg.
1998 – Youth Interfoto, Moscow.
1998 – "A strange person, a strange body". Gallery Navicula Artis, St. Petersburg.
1998 – The Tower of Babel. Gallery Art College, St. Petersburg.
1997 – "100 photos of St. Petersburg." Library of Mayakovsky, St. Petersburg.
1997 – I International Solstice Festival. Theater Baltic House, St. Petersburg.
1997 – The images of St.-Petersburg. The Center of Russian culture in Prague.
1995 – Sleeping Beauty. Gallery 21, St. Petersburg.

Rewards:

1998 – Diploma winner of the Youth Interfoto contest.

Collections:

Works are in collections:

The State Russian Museum, the State Museum and Exhibition Center Rosphoto, the State Museum "Tsarskoye Selo Collection", Tver Regional Art Gallery, in private collections in Russia, Switzerland, Italy, France, USA, Israel.