Sergey Shekhovtsov was born in 1969 in Salsk, Russia. He graduated from Surikov Art College (Moscow). He currently lives and works in Moscow.
Shekhovtsov works principally in foam and plastic, materials more readily associated with design. He uses them in an ingeniously sculptural way.
Shekhovtsov often treats foam like wood or stone, carving out a shape with decisive and almost brutal strokes of the chisel. Thus his work is deceiving – at first glance we don’t realize what we’re looking at. So, for instance, in one work both the symbol of the new Russian State and the iron horse are actually made of foam, a material associated with housekeeping
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2011 | Foam. Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia Remix (with Boris Orlov). XL Gallery, Moscow |
| 2010 | Big Battle. XL Gallery, Moscow |
| 2009 | F 392. XL Gallery, Moscow |
| 2008 | Tron. XL Gallery, Moscow |
| 2006 | Park. Nina Lumer Gallery, Milan |
| 2004 | Ephemeral Art. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Porpourri. Regina Gallery, Moscow Golden Cage. Regina Gallery, Moscow Singer. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
| 2003 | Elite affairs (with V. Koshlyakov). Regina Gallery, Moscow |
| 2002 | Sponges. Gallery France, Moscow |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2011 | Car culture. ZKM, Karlsruhe Materia prima. l’arte povera in Russia. al Pac , Milano |
| 2010 | Lesson in History. Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
| 2009 | Face, image, time. Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow La Biennale di Venezia, Russian pavilion. Venice Russia 21. PinchukArtCentre, Kiev Russian Poor. 3rd Moscow Biennale, Moscow Sketches of Installations. XL Gallery, Moscow Contemporary Russian Art. Loop Gallery, Seoul |
| 2008 | Future depends on you. Ethnography Museum, Vladivostok; Museum center, Krasnoyarsk |
| 2007 | Capricci. Casino Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg Russia Miami 2007. Miami Design District, Miami, USA I Believe! Winzavod Art Center, Moscow New acquisitions. NCCA, Moscow Future depends on you. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow |
| 2006 | Moscow News. The Gallery of Art Critics, Palace Adria, Prague |
| 2005 | Moscow Breakthrough. Bargehouse, OXO Tower Wharf, London BRussia. Europalia-2005 festival. Royal Park, Brussels Russian Pop Art. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow P.S. Beyond the Red Horizon. NCCA, Moscow 11 |
| 2004 | Za Czerwonym Horyzontem. Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw 26 Bienal de Sao Paulo. Ciccillio Matarazzo Pavilion, Sao Paulo, Brazil |
| 2003–04 | Go, Russia! Regina Gallery, Moscow |
| 2002 | Pop/Art. Zverev center of contemporary art, Moscow Davaj! Aus dem Laboratorium der Freien Kunste in Russland. Postfuhramt, Berlin Museum fur angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
| 2001 | Typical-Atypical. Art squat at Baumanskaya street, Moscow |
| 2000 | Abramtsevo-2000. Abramtsevo Museum, Moscow region |