Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai

1969, Saint Petersburg

In 1995 graduated from the Leningrad Institute of theatre, music and cinematography. Alexander is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 1998. Works as a theatrical artist, painter, creates installations and performances. Since 2010 the participant of the “PARAZIT art gallery” association. In 2011 his project “Juices! Light!” was nominated for the Kandinsky Prize for “The Project of the year”. His installation “Feast” was presented on the Busan Biennale in 2012 (South Korea, 2012).

Lives and works in Saint Petersburg.

Personal site: http://www.prano-shishkin.narod.ru/

Photos of the works are provided by Marina Gisich Gallery.

Selected Exhibitions

1998 — Dead for Life. Retreat Gallery. Ireland

2000 — Parade of Homeless Urban Creatures. Biennale Internazionale Arte Giovane. Turin, Italy

2001 — A Pillared Incubator. ArtGenda, Helsinki, Finland

2003 — Traces of presence. Russian art Festival. Nice, France

2010 — Unknown Shishkin. Globus Gallery, Loft project Etagi. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2010 — Emptiness, St. Peter and Paul’s Cathedral. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2010 — Awareness of sublimation. Parazit art Gallery, Borey Art Center. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2010 — Leo Tolstoy – yesterday and tomorrow. The 1st exhibition of the project Public art about political history in Russia. Parazit art Gallery, Borey Gallery. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2010 — End of summer. Parazit art Gallery, Borey Gallery. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2010 — Bio art. Parazit art Gallery, Borey Gallery. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2011 — Art Moscow. Parazit art Gallery, Borey Gallery. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2011 — Doomsday. Parazit art Gallery, Borey Gallery. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2011 — Inner police. Parazit art Gallery, Borey Gallery. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2011 — Do we want sex? Parazit art Gallery, Borey Gallery.Saint Petersburg, Russia

2011 — Sentimentalism. Parazit art Gallery, Borey Gallery. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2011 — Kronfest festival. Kronstadt, Russia

2011 — Exhibition of the Kandinsky Prize nominees. Central House of artists. Moscow, Russia

2011 — Assigned art. Modernariat Gallery. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2011 — The housing question. Parazit art Gallery, Modernariat Gallery. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2011 — Prototypes. Modernariat Gallery. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2012 — Head office. Komnata (Room) Gallery. Moscow, Russia

2012 — The Busan Biennale. Busan, the South Korea

2012 — The black. Parazit art Gallery, Borey Gallery. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2012 — Russian existentialism. Parazit art Gallery, Borey Gallery. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2012 — The third wave of avant-garde. Parazit art Gallery, Borey Gallery. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2012 — Revolution - Parazit art Gallery, Borey Gallery. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2012 — Russia Matching Exhibition. Busan, the South Korea

2012 — Baltic Biennale. Rizzordi Art Foundation. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2012 — Those who hear not the music think the dancers mad. Marina Gisich Gallery, Saint Petersburg; Ural Vision Gallery, Ekaterinburg, Russia

2013 — Made of carton. Borey Gallery. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2013 — 12 sounds of the human body. Marina Gisich Gallery. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2013 — Biennale of graphics of the Baltic Sea countries Kaliningrad-Koenigsberg. Kaliningrad, Russia

2013 — The annual public art festival Art-Prospect. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2013 — The Parasite +. The project of the Gallery Parazit and Borey Art Center. Gallery Cultural Alliance. The project of Marat Gelman. Moscow, Russia

2013 — Marina Gisich Gallery & Ural Vision Gallery. Art Paris Art Fair. Paris, France

2014 — Actual drawing. State Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2014 — Paper sculpture. State Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2014 — Upstairs. Museum of Moscow. Moscow, Russia

2014 — Terror and Culture. In the Baltic Biennale 2014. New Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2014 — Painting the extension. Museum of Moscow. Moscow, Russia

2014 — Cross Art Festival. Erarta Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2014 — Contemporary artists in support of the Center Anton is here. New Museum. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2015 — Practice of contiguity. The main project of the Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale. Krasnoyarsk, Russia

2016 — To you here (in collaboration with Alexander Terebenin). Youth educational center of the Hermitage. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2016 — Provenance. Marina Gisich Gallery. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2016 — Simple art. Marina Gisich Gallery. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2016 — Going on vacation? Agency Art Ru. Moscow, Russia

2016 — Annual public art festival Art-Prospect. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2016 — Co-author: exhibition-coloring. The new wing of Gogol's House. Moscow, Russia

2017 — Interpretations. Within the framework of the 10th Festival of Cyberfest. Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2017 — Triennial of Russian Comtemporary Art. Garage. Moscow, Russia