Shagin Dmitry Vladimirovich

Soviet and Russian artist, film director, actor, member of the Mitki creative group. Exhibited since 1976 at exhibitions of Leningrad unofficial artists: TEV (Association of Experimental Exhibitions), TEII (Association of Experimental Fine Arts). Since 1976, member of TEV (Association of Experimental Exhibitions). In 1981 he became one of the founders and a member of the council of TEII (Association of Experimental Fine Arts). Since 1991, member of the International Federation of Artists (IFA). Since 1988, he has participated in a number of foreign group exhibitions: Paris, Cologne, Antwerp, Lausanne, Vienna, San Diego, New York, Washington, Rio de Janeiro. The works were purchased by many private collectors from foreign countries, the USSR and Russia, the Russian Museum, the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, and the Novosibirsk Art Museum. One of the organizers of the Mitkilibris book publishing house. In 1996, he founded and began to curate, together with Alexander Florensky, the Mitki-VKHUTEMAS gallery. In 2006 he founded the Mitka Creative Association Museum.