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VALERIY KRESTNIKOV
(Brief creativity resume)

Date of birth: 10th August, 1962.
Place of birth: the city of Staritsa, Russia.
In 1983 graduated from Kungursk art college (Russia).
In 1993 graduated from Omsk teachers' training institute, Department of Art and Graphic.
1988 – 1994 taught at city children’s art school (Petropavlovsk).
1994 – 1996 taught in Art College, Department of Painting (Petropavlovsk).
Since 1999 – Member of the Union of Artists of Kazakhstan.

The participant of the following exhibitions:
1982 – the National Craft exhibition at VDNKh (Moscow).
1999 – Festival of the fine arts “Zhiger – 1999”, The A. Kasteev State Museum of Arts of the Republic of Kazakhstan (Almaty). The diploma of the laureate of the Festival.
1999 – 2000 joint exhibitions: Art Gallery “Tribuna” – “Most”, National Culture Support Fund (Almaty).
2000 – exhibition “Intercontinental” (Astana).
1997, 2001 – exhibition “North Kazakhstan Artists to the young capital” (Astana).
2001 – exhibition of the works of North Kazakhstan artists (Kostanay).
2002 – personal exhibition. Regional Art Museum (Petropavlovsk)
2002 – personal exhibition. Art Gallery “Tribuna” (Almaty).
2003 – exhibition of the works of Kazakhstan artists (Moscow).
2003 – “Shanyrak” exhibition. Fine arts Gallery (Kurgan).
2004 – exhibition in “Smal ART” gallery (Schweinfurt, Germany)
2004 – 2005 project work “Great steppe fights”.
2006 – personal exhibition with Vera Gavrilko “Just women and cats” (Petropavlovsk).
The works are at Art Exhibitions Management of the Republic of Kazakhstan, in the collection of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan N. Nazarbayev, in private collections in Kazakhstan, Germany, Greece, Portugal, USA and France.
In 2004 was included in “Common art rating of painters and graphic artists” (Moscow).
In 2006 was elected as the Chairman of the North Kazakhstan branch of “Kazakhstan Artists’ Association”.
2007 – the participant of the First International Symposium of Artists, dedicated to the Week of the Capital (Astana).
2007 – the participant of the First Report exhibition of the Kazakhstan State Academy of Art (Astana).
2007 – autumn regional exhibition “Northern palette” (Petropavlovsk).
2008 – regional exhibition “Spring Petropavlovsk” (Petropavlovsk).
2008 – International exhibition “…und ewig lockt das Weib!”, “KONTRASTE” Art Gallery (Erwitte-Horn, Germany).

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