Yuri
Mironov
Moscow, 1942.
Yuri Alexandrovich Mironov (born 12 September 1942 in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian abstract artist, a member of the Creative Union of Professional Artists, and one of the founders of the first independent, non-state art gallery in the USSR, the M'ARS Center of Contemporary Art (then known as Gallery M'ARS).
Biography
Yuri Alexandrovich Mironov was born in Moscow into the family of a serviceman. From 1968 to 1970 he studied at the Surikov Drawing Classes, and in 1970 he enrolled in the Faculty of Art and Graphics at the Moscow State Correspondence Pedagogical Institute (now the Sholokhov Moscow State University for the Humanities), from which he graduated with distinction in 1975.
In 1977 he became a member of the Moscow United Committee of Graphic Artists, 28 Malaya Gruzinskaya Street, painting section (the Moscow United Committee of Graphic Artists at 28 Malaya Gruzinskaya Street).
In 1983 he joined the group of nonconformist artists known as the "20 Moscow Artists", taking part in their exhibitions until 1987 (from the sixth through to the tenth exhibition). In 1986–1987 he was chairman of the trade union committee of the Painting Section at the Committee of Graphic Artists.
In 1988 he became one of the founders of the first private gallery in the Soviet Union, M'ARS, which was established as an association of artists with the aim of holding exhibitions, selling works and creating a museum of contemporary art. In 1993 he left the gallery.
In 1995 he joined the DAVIDGROUP association.
Museums
and collections
The artist's works are held in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery, the Yaroslavl and Oryol Art Museums, the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics, the Alexander Glezer collection, and in numerous private collections in Russia, Austria, Australia, Italy, France, Germany, the USA, Sweden and Turkey.
Exhibitions
1977—1989
Exhibitions of the Moscow United Committee of Graphic Artists,
28 Malaya Gruzinskaya Street, Moscow.
1983—1989
Exhibitions of the "20 Moscow Artists" group, Moscow.
1988
Exhibition of Soviet artists, Greece.
1990
Exhibition of Soviet artists, Rome, Italy.
International exhibition APT-MYTH, Central House of Artists (CHA), Moscow.
Solo exhibition "Subjects", M'ARS Gallery, Moscow.
1991
APT-MYTH 2, Central House of Artists (CHA), Moscow. "Golden Brush", Central House of Artists (CHA), Moscow.
"Yu. Mironov — A. Semyonov", Ankara, Turkey.
"Paintings Remain in Russia", Central House of Artists (CHA), Moscow.
1992
Solo exhibition, Russian Art Gallery, Chicago, USA.
Participant in the APT EXPO exhibition, Tokyo, Japan.
Group exhibition, Madrid, Spain.
1993
Solo exhibition, M'ARS Gallery, Moscow.
1994
"Masters of Contemporary Painting", Central House of Artists (CHA), Moscow.
Participant in the exhibition "20 Years since the Bulldozer Exhibition", 10 Gogolevsky Boulevard, Moscow.
1995
Solo exhibition, FINE ART Gallery, Moscow. "20 Years Later", 10 Gogolevsky Boulevard, Moscow.
1996
"Yu. Mironov — A. Semyonov", Central House of Artists (CHA), Moscow.
Solo exhibition, Central House of Artists (CHA), Moscow.
"First Congress of the Creative Fund of Russia", Central House of Artists (CHA), Moscow.
1996-1998
Group exhibitions, Russian Creative Chamber, Moscow.
1997
Participant in the Moscow APT Salon exhibition,
Manege, Moscow. "Moscow — Russia. Russia — Moscow",
Russian Creative Chamber, Central House of Artists (CHA), Moscow.
"850th Anniversary of the City of Moscow", 10 Gogolevsky Boulevard, Moscow. "Harmony of Contrasts", 11 Kuznetsky Most, Moscow.
1997-1998
"Twenty Centuries since the Nativity of Christ",
Russian Creative Chamber, Central House of Artists (CHA), Moscow.
1998
Participant in the Moscow APT Salon exhibition, Manege, Moscow.
Participant in the Moscow International Art Salon, Central House of Artists (CHA), Moscow.
"Festival of Painting", Russian Creative Chamber, Central House of Artists (CHA), Moscow.
2004
"Exhibition of Twenty Abstractionists", Vernissage 1+20 Gallery, Moscow.
"Exhibition in Memory of Boris Ionaits", Vernissage 1+20 Gallery, Moscow.
2005
Participant in the Moscow International Art Salon "CHA-2005".
"Habitat", Vernissage 1+20 Gallery.
"Abstractionists Against Drugs",
Vernissage 1+20 Gallery, Moscow — Izhevsk.
"Anniversary Exhibition of Vernissage 1+20", Vernissage 1+20 Gallery, Moscow.
Solo exhibition, Vernissage 1+20 Gallery, Moscow.
2006
Participant in the Art Manege International Fair, Moscow.
Participant in the Moscow International Art Salon "CHA-2006", "Contemporaries", DAVIDGROUP Gallery — Vernissage 1+20.
Participant in the 5th Art Fair "Best Art Galleries", DAVIDGROUP Gallery — Vernissage 1+20, Moscow.
Participant in the anniversary exhibition "Vernissage 1+20" — DAVIDGROUP, Gallery on Solyanka, Moscow.
Participant in the Charity Auction of Contemporary Russian Art "Operation Hope", DAVIDGROUP Gallery, Delegation of the European Union, Moscow.
2010
Participant in the exhibition and publishing project "NOT A SQUARE — ANOTHER REALITY". Expressive Abstractionism of the Second Half of the 20th — Early 21st Centuries. Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery.
2013–2015
Participant in the exhibition "Parallel Worlds", Saint Petersburg.
Russian Academy of Arts (RAA). Creative Union of Artists of Russia. DAVIDGROUP Creative Studio.
2019
Participant in the exhibition "Picturesque Russia", Moscow.
Russian Academy of Arts (RAA). Creative Union of Artists of Russia.
2020
Participant in the exhibition "Against the Current", Moscow.
Laureate of the Eduard Drobitcky Prize in the field of contemporary fine art. Russian Academy of Arts (RAA). Creative Union of Artists of Russia.
