Oleg Semenovykh is a multidisciplinary artist working with painting, performance, video, AI, and digital media. In the early 2000s, he was active in electronic music — IDM, ambient, and sound art — using generative and algorithmic software environments and releasing music on various record labels. Since 2007, he has been creating visual art, employing generative computer programs based on fractal algorithms and developing digital art projects.

Since 2015, he has focused on painting and drawing. From 2017 to 2020, he was the curator and co-organizer of Moving Gallery (Chelyabinsk) — a project dedicated to exhibitions in non-art spaces such as hotels, fitness centers, and theaters. Since 2020, he has been an artist and curator with the self-organized collective 22 / 22 gallery — an online community of artists from different countries.

He lives and works in Moscow. Born in 1970, Chelyabinsk, Russia.

Education

2023 — Akademia 19, Moscow — Course: Contemporary Sculpture. Object + Relief
2021–2022 — Process Online School of Contemporary Art — Studio of Katya Granova
2021–2022 — Concept Online School of Contemporary Art — Studio of Yulia Vergazova and Mika Plutitskaya
2019–2021 — Sreda Obucheniya (School of Education), Faculty of Contemporary Art — Studios of Arseny Zhilyaev, Avdei Ter-Oganyan, and Ivan Novikov
2019 — MosArtSchool, Course in Art Management led by Elena Kuprina-Lyakhovich

Solo Exhibitions — Gallery Projects

2024 — Letters to the Island, Arbuzz Gallery, Moscow
2023 — Lunarization (Obluneniye), K320, Moscow
2022 — Don’t Think About…, A Table Gallery, Chelyabinsk
2021 — Three Rooms, 22 Gallery, Moscow

Solo Exhibitions — Alternative Spaces / Moving Gallery

2020 — 2041. The Story of One Awakening, HELENCONCEPT, Chelyabinsk (with Evgeniya Kostina)
2019 — The Multiplicity of the Paradoxes of Being, Regional Philharmonic, Chelyabinsk
2018 — Non-Portrait Resemblance, Parkcity Hotel, Chelyabinsk
2018 — In Search of the Fifth Corner, Old Town Hotel, Chelyabinsk
2018 — Dog P, Chelyabinsk Chamber Theatre
2017 — Red Line, Parkcity Hotel, Chelyabinsk (with A. Saad-Putinsteva & E. Migachyova)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025
Closer to Water, Arbuzz Gallery, Moscow
Wake Me Up in Paradise, Glubina, Moscow
+1 Non-Human Actant?, Borovsk Contemporary Art Center, Borovsk

2024
Excavations, Arbuzz Gallery, Moscow
Swamp Biennale, group performance Garden of Earthly Superabilities (Irina Gulyakina, Community 22, guest performers), Moscow

2023
Tinkoff City: Andy Warhol and Russian Art, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow
They Are Cats, What Have You Achieved?, ARBUZZ Gallery, Moscow
Untitled, Akademia 19, Moscow
I Follow the Trace. I Follow the Word, Glubina Gallery, Moscow
The Last Off-Site Show on the Earth at Plague Space and Everywhere (pt. 1), Plague Space, Krasnodar
Hide and Seek!, Container Hall, Murmansk
Dark Room, CCI Fabrika, Moscow
The Curve of Forgetting, Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
Absolute Creative Freedom (With Some Restrictions), Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
Under the Door Closer on a Hanger, Community 22 apartment exhibition, London

2022
The Mood of a Traveler, Damirov Gallery, Moscow
Chelyabinsk Flat Exhibition, T. Kaganets Studio, Kopeysk
Fragility and Overcoming. A Focus on One City: Chelyabinsk, Arbat Art Hotel, Chelyabinsk
Eco. Tech. Art, Krasnokholmskaya Gallery, Moscow

2021
Check the Results, Kunsthalle No. 7, St. Petersburg
Balloons and Circles, XL Gallery, Moscow
Andy Warhol and Russian Art, Sevkabel Port, St. Petersburg
Unhinged Holidays, Sreda Gallery, Cube.Moscow, Moscow
Habitat, Winzavod, Moscow
A Letter in an Empty Envelope, Gallery 22, Moscow

2020
Funny Exhibition / Red Circle Report, CCI Fabrika, Moscow
Everyday Episodes, Hidden Garden, Samara University Greenhouse, Samara
Time After, Historical Museum of the Southern Urals, Chelyabinsk
The Pearl Button, 2nd Apartment Triennial, Samara
Staying Connected, Nagornaya Gallery, Moscow
Earth. What’s Next?, Astrakhan Kremlin Museum Complex, Zeikhgauz, Astrakhan
Actionism and Art Activism 2020: What’s Next?, CCI Fabrika, Moscow (curated by K. Nenasheva)

2019
Museum Night, CCI Fabrika, Moscow (Living and Dead Water project)
Ecoengineering 2.0 Forum Exhibition, Chelyabinsk
Ecology and Art, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk

2018
Open Museum 2018, Electromuseum, Moscow
Art-Portrait, VII All-Russian Art-May Festival, Fortress Museum, Kislovodsk
Contemporary Vanguard: VANGUARD TODAY, Moscow House of Artists, Moscow

2017
Transformation, TEDx Chelyabinsk, TEDx Art Festival Exhibition, House of Architects, Chelyabinsk
Echolot, BOX2 Event Hall, Irkutsk
The Space of Red, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
Arvest Expo 2017, NPAK Contemporary Art Center, Yerevan, Armenia

Press

2024
I Am the Island, Review of the exhibition Letters to the Island, ART Uzel
Review of the exhibition “Letters to the Island”, by Ksenia Kudasova
The Island Is Also a Person, Review of the exhibition Letters to the Island, by Evgeny Naumov, Skrew

2023
Video interview for the Community 22 YouTube channel
Interview, Artokratiya
The Moon, Hair, and the Ruble, Review of the exhibition Lunarization, ART Uzel
The Screenprint Story, Kommersant
Warhol and Everyone in Moscow, The Art Newspaper Russia
What Does Warhol Mean to Us?, The Art Newspaper Russia

2020
Video interview as part of the contemporary art festival Debarkader-2020, Historical Museum of the Southern Urals, Chelyabinsk

2019
What Kind of Water Do You Drink?, ART Uzel
Entering the Museum, ART Uzel
Book: “Chelyabinsk. ROCK”, by R. Gribanov

Awards & Competitions

2019
Factory Workshops, VI session, category “Experiment”, Center for Creative Industries Fabrika, Moscow

2018
ART LOVE FORUM 2018, ArtPlay, Moscow — Category: “Concept”, 2nd place
Russian Art Week, ArtPlay, Moscow — Category: Contemporary Art / Image (Forms and Boundaries), 3rd place
Ural Art Week, Magnitogorsk Art Gallery (MAG), Magnitogorsk — Category: Surrealism, 1st place
Ural Art Week, Magnitogorsk Art Gallery (MAG), Magnitogorsk — Category: Figurative Art, 1st place

Collections  

Works held in the collections of:  

• Chelyabinsk Chamber Theatre
• Art Museum of South Ural State University (SUSU)
• Collection of Igor Sukhanov (Saint Petersburg)
• Private collections in Chelyabinsk, Moscow, and Saint Petersburg