Biography

My Creed

«The beauties of nature surrounding us are the constant source of inspiration. Painting depicts feelings and thoughts, worries and struggles of human beings, it reveals the complicated world of relationship between people and interprets historical events. Only reflections on vital issues, the reflections imbued with love for people and nature, can give our minds food for thought.»

Biography

Cherniy was born in 1972 in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan. In 1983 he entered The Moscow Academic Lyceum of Fine Arts at the Russian Academy of Arts (MAHL RAKH), which he finished in 1990. From 1990 to 1996 Vladimir Cherniy was a student at Ilya Glazunov Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (the Department of Painting, specialization Portrait Painting, graduation work “Andrei Rublev”). From 1998 to 2000 Vladimir continued his education as a postgraduate student (apprenticeship-internee). Since 2001 Vladimir has been an assistant professor at the Department of Painting of the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.

Since 1994 Vladimir has participated in many international exhibitions. His paintings are exhibited all over the world. Vladimir Cherniy’s works can be seen at permanent exhibitions of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, the Museum of Moscow, the Museum of the Bolshoi Theatre, the Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and in private collections in Russia and abroad. Vladimir Cherniy’s works were published in such magazines as Russian Painting, Modern Russian Realism, Landscape., Russian Painting, Portrait., Russian Painting, 1000 Russian Artists, Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture etc. Articles on Vladimir Cherniy’s works are published in different newspapers. Reproductions of his frescoes and interior designs were published in Architectural Digest. Most Beautiful Buildings. In 2005 the artist’s monograph was published.

Since 2010 Vladimir Cherniy has been a member of The Creative Union of Artists of Russia and The International Association of Art. Since 2012 he has been a member of All-Russian Public Organization “The Union of Artists of Russia. The Moscow Union of Artists.”

In 1997 Vladimir took part in decoration of Red Square for Moscow’s 850 th anniversary celebrations. He created a number of banners depicting the most important events in the history of Russia. It was one of the first artist’s works in monumental decorative art.

Fresco painting and interior design of Orthodox churches and cathedrals are also the fields the artist work in. In 1999-2000 Vladimir led the group of artists who painted the two side altars of The Cathedral of Christ the Saviour dedicated to St Nicholas and Alexander Nevsky.

In 2001-2002 Vladimir Cherniy was called upon to create the interior design of Church of the Martyr Demetrius of Thessaloniki in Blagusha Street during its reconstruction. He created the full-size drawings of the central marble iconostasis and mosaic floors. In 2002 Vladimir designed the interior of Church of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin in Temple, a single-domed wooden church in Mytishchi (Moscow Oblast). In 2004 the artist worked on decoration of Church of the Nativity of Christ in Mytishchi. One of his brilliant works in interior design is decoration of Sukhov’s country house in Myshkin (Yaroslavskay Oblast) where the artist used folk style of Northern Russia.

In 2008-2009, in cooperation with artists Kravtsov and Pikalova, Cherniy created a stage curtain for The Bolshoi Theatre. The curtain depicts the triumphal entry of Prince Dmitry Pozharsky and Kuzma Minin into Moscow freed from Polish Invaders in 1612.

In 2010 Vladimir Cherniy designed the “gold” stage curtain “Russia” (woven by Rubelli, the historic Venice textile company). It was a new curtain imitating Fedorovsky’s style, made with Russian symbols instead of those of the USSR. The soviet star was replaced with the crown, and The Hammer and Sickle were replaced with The Double-Headed Eagle and St George.

Since 2014 Vladimir has been the honorary board member of Slavonic Centre of Pavlodar Region.