Pinocchio's Library, Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York
2008
Pinocchio's Library, Galleria Pack, Milan, Italy
2007
Unnecessary Alphabet, Anna Frants Gallery Space, New York
2007
Danger Zone, Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, New York
2007
Memorial Model-Making, Gisich Gallery, St Petersburg, Russia
2007
Minute of Silence, Navicula Artis, St Petersburg, Russia
2007
Lenproekt, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
2006
'Circle 2', Gisich Gallery, St Petersburg, Russia
2006
'Climactic Zone', Navicula Artis, St Petersburg, Russia
2005
'SH854', Guelman Gallery, Moscow
2005
'My Neighbourhood', Moscow Biennale
2005
'White Project', Art Moscow
2004
'Metaphysical Slide Tower', Udine City Museum, Udine, Italy
2004
'Dream of a Dictator', Art Moscow
2003
'Head of the Artist', Gisich Gallery, St Petersburg, Russia
2003
'Dreams of a Concierge', Navicula Artis, St Petersburg, Russia
2002
'Invasion', Extra, St Petersburg, Russia
2002
'Superprints', Che, St Petersburg, Russia
2001
'City Heights', Gallery 27, Cork Street, London
1998
'Peter's Fountains', The Blythe Gallery, Manchester
1995
Exhibition Hall of Odense University, Odense, Denmark
1994
'11 Portraits of Prince Charles', Institute of Contemporary Art, St Petersburg
Selected Group Exhibitions
2007
Celestial Mechanics, Pulkovo Observatory, St Petersburg , Russia
2007
Something About Power, 2 man show, 2nd Moscow Biennale, L Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2007
Border Territory, Mars Gallery, 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
2007
Architecture Ad Marginum, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
2006
Collage in Russia, Russian State Museum, St Petersburg
2006
Crescendo, Russian State Museum, St Petersburg
2004
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2004
Art Moscow, Central Hall of Artists, Moscow
2003
'Dream of the Dictator', Art Manezh, Manezh, Moscow
2003
Lorgues Print Festival, Lorgues, France
2003
'Dream of Triton', Anna Akhmatova Museum, St Petersburg
2003
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2003
National Print Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London
2002
Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London
2002
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2002
Art Futures 2002, Contemporary Art Society, London
2002
National Print Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London
2001
Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London
2001
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2001
National Print Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London
5th Open Print Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2000
National Print Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London (publicity materials)
1999
Discerning Eye, The Mall Galleries, London
1999
National Print Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London (catalogue cover)
'The End of Style', City Museum, St Petersburg
1997
Paper Theatre III, Bookcamera or The Book & The Elements, St Petersburg
1996
National Print Exhibition, The Mall Galleries, London
1992-1994
'Time of Transition' travelling exhibition in England and Wales
Awards
Murmansk Art Museum - Outstanding Printmaking Award 2006
Novosibirsk Print Biennale - Outstanding Printmaking Award 2005
National Print Exhibition (UK) - Birgit Skiold Prize 2003
National Print Exhibition (UK) - Gavin Graham Gallery Award 2002
St Petersburg Print Biennale - Outstanding Printmaking Award- 2001
National Print Exhibition (UK) - Galleries Magazine Award 2000
Collections
The Margulies Collection-permanent collection - Miami, USA
Victoria & Albert Museum - permanent collection - London,UK
Ashmolean Museum - RE Diploma collection - Cambridge,UK
Murmansk Art Museum - permanent collection - Murmansk, Russia
Peter Belyi is enchanted by the ruins of empires. He sings to his motherland, but it cannot be called nostalgia. It is rather a squaring of accounts with that which no longer exists, but which continues to exist in our memories. The artist belongs to the generation, which escaped at the last minute from under the wheels of the Soviet socialist machine. His is the first free generation, but nevertheless a generation that has been well and truly scared. Most of Belyi’s projects are dedicated to unnecessary objects. The recurring theme of memorial model-making takes the form of scrutinizing the rapid change from the needed to the unnecessary, the useful to the useless and the conditions in which this happens; He speaks of the “tragedy of objects” in which yesterday they had meaning, but today they are waste.
Born in 1971 in Leningrad USSR, Peter Belyi graduated in 1989 from the Secondary Art School of the Academy of Arts, and studied ceramics at Mukhin Academy of Applied Art from 1990 to 1992. He lived in London from 1995 to 2001 and graduated from Camberwell College in 2000 with an MA in Printmaking. He lives and works in St Petersburg, Russia and works mainly in printmaking, objects and installations. He teaches at the Smolnyi Institute in St Petersburg and is a member of the Russian Union of Artists and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.
