Profiles of painters, sculptors, printmakers, photographers and conceptual artists from Russia and Eastern Europe whose careers ran through the Soviet and post-Soviet decades — many of them part of the unofficial, nonconformist art that developed outside the state system. Each profile is an independent reference written from public biographical records.
Sots Art and Moscow Conceptualism
- Yuri Albert — Moscow Conceptualist
- Grisha Bruskin — Fundamental Lexicon
- Ivan Chuikov — Moscow Conceptualism
- Rimma and Valeriy Gerlovin — conceptual artist duo
- Dmitri Gutov — artist and theorist
- Alexander Kosolapov — Sots Art, Lenin–Coca-Cola
- Komar & Melamid — founders of Sots Art
- Boris Orlov — Sots Art sculptor
- Leonid Sokov — Sots Art sculptor
The Lianozovo group and the nonconformist generation
- Andrey Grositsky — painter
- Vladimir Nemukhin — painter of the Lianozovo circle
- Mikhail Odnoralov — nonconformist painter
- Dmitri Plavinsky — painter, structural symbolism
- Oscar Rabin — painter of the Lianozovo group
- Mikhail Roginsky — painter, precursor of Russian Pop Art
- Oleg Vassiliev — nonconformist painter
- Vladimir Yankilevsky — painter and graphic artist
Figurative painting
- Vladimir Brainin — Moscow painter
- Vitaly Dlugy — painter
- Viktor Elkonin — Soviet painter and graphic artist
- Nadezhda Elkonina-Rozenberg — Soviet painter and graphic artist
- Semyon Faibisovich — photorealist painter
- Vasily Kafanov — painter and illustrator
- Nikolai Kasatkin — painter of the sixties generation
- Tatiana Nazarenko — narrative painter
- Natalia Nesterova — painter
- Konstantin Razumov — painter
Photography and new media
- Andrej Barov — photographic artist, born in Leningrad
- Vladimir Clavijo-Telepnev — art photographer
- Olga Kisseleva — multimedia artist
- George Pusenkoff — painter, installation artist and photographer
- Olga Tobreluts — Neo-Academism and digital art
Sculpture, printmaking and stage design
- Anatoly Chechik — artist and stage designer
- Lazar Gadaev — sculptor
- Oleg Kudriashov — drypoint and constructions
For the history behind these artists — unofficial Soviet art, Sots Art and Moscow Conceptualism — see Soviet nonconformist art: movements and artists.