Evgeny Semyonov

Evgeny Semyonov
BornJuly 3, 1960 (63 years old)
Pervouralsk, Sverdlovsk region, USSR
Alma materMoscow Central Art School at the Russian Academy of Arts; The Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) Film Direction Department
StyleConceptual artist
AwardsGold Medal Achievement Award from the Russian Academy of Arts
Websitehttp://e-semyonov.ru

Evgeny Semyonov (born July 3, 1960, in Pervouralsk, Sverdlovsk region) is a Russian conceptual artist, art theorist, and art collector. Member of the Moscow Conceptualist movement. Honorary Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts. Resident of Kultur Kontakt Austria. (1994–1995). Kandinsky Prize nominee (Project of the Year nomination, 2010) and winner of the Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin Award in contemporary fine art category. Evgeny Semyonov received the Gold Medal Achievement Award from the Russian Academy of Arts in 2021 and was listed as one of the top 50 and top 40 most expensive contemporary Russian artists (The Art Newspaper Russia 2014, 2015, 2021, 2025).