Namdakov Dashi Balzhanovich

Russian sculptor, graphic artist, jeweler and designer. Member of the Union of Artists of Russia. People's Artist of Buryatia, corresponding member. Russian Academy of Arts, member of the Russian Academy of Cinematography, honorary member of the Florence Academy of Drawing Arts, Laureate of the Russian Government Prize. He has extensive creative experience behind him, but is constantly looking for new methods of realizing his talent. The young sculptor’s first exhibitions took place in the early 2000s and he was accepted into the Irkutsk branch of the Union of Artists of Russia in 2001, immediately becoming a new notable phenomenon in the art of the Baikal region, and then at exhibitions in St. Petersburg and Moscow, where he was awarded the Silver Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts for exhibition activities, and was subsequently accepted as a full member of the Academy of Arts. Sculptures, graphic sheets (drawings), jewelry collection made in mixed media were received with interest by the viewer in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Hermitage and the State Historical Museum, as well as in museums in China, Finland, the USA and Italy, where the master began casting bronze easel and monumental works in the workshops of Pietra Santa since 2009, and also in London.