Pavel Otdelnov
b. 1979, Russia
Born in 1979 in Dzerzhinsk, USSR, Pavel Otdelnov graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after Surikov and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Moscow. Since 2022, he has lived and worked in London. Since 1996, Otdelnov has exhibited extensively in both public and private contexts in Russia, Sweden, the UK, and other countries.
He was nominated for the Kandinsky Prize in 2015, 2017, and 2019, in the category of ‘Project of the Year,’ and became a finalist in 2021. In 2017, he received a Special award at the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Awards. He won the ‘Artist of the Year’ Innovation State Prize in 2020 and was named ‘Artist of the Year’ by the Cosmoscow Foundation that same year.
His works are included in the collections of the Uppsala Art Museum and Kalmar Art Museum (Sweden), the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Russia), as well as in private and corporate collections worldwide.
EDUCATION
2013 — 2015 Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2005 — 2007 Postgraduate in Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute
1999 — 2005 Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute, Painting Department
1995 — 1999 Nizhny Novgorod Art College
AWARDS
2021 Finalist of the Kandinsky Art Award
2020 Winner of the Innovation Prize
2020 Artist of the Year by the International Cosmoscow Contemporary Art Fair
2019 Long list of the Kandinsky Art Award
2017 Long list of the Kandinsky Art Award
2017 The Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award, a Special award of
the French Institute in St.Petersburg
2015 Long list of the Kandinsky Art Award
2015 Finalist of the international juried show Portrait Now
2013 Nominee for the STRABAG Art Award International
COLLECTIONS
Uppsala Konstmuseum, Uppsala, Sweden
Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Russia
The Institute of Russian Realist Art (IRRA), Moscow, Russia
Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Museum of Contemporary Art Erarta, St. Petersburg, Russia
NovoRiznitsa Balkan, Tivat, Montenegro