Igor Vishnyakov was born in 1968 in Moscow. The artist spent his childhood in Africa and Southeast Asia. Igor Vishnyakov became a permanent member of the New Academy of Fine Arts shortly after it was founded by Timur Novikov in 1989. While studying at the New Academy, he learned about alternative photo printing processes that were common in the 19th century, and began to revive them. In 1990, Vishnyakov moved to New York. As a reporter and fashion photographer, he published his works in various American and European magazines. There he continued his artistic education in the studio of the French artist Emmanuel Flipo. A unique authorial printing technique using the gum arabic mixes the effects of painting, engraving and photography. Lives and works in New York.

Solo exhibitions

2005

Emerging Artists Series. Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York

TARO. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow

2004

Master Class. Manege Central Exhibition Hall , Saint Petersburg

Group exhibitions

2014

Beauty of the Beast. Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York

2013-2014

Mystical Neo-Realism. Barbarian Art Gallery, Zurich

2011-2012

Passion Bild. Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern

Mir Faberge. Royal Academy of Arts, London

2010

House of the Nobleman. RNA Foundation, London

2004

10 years anniversary of the Museum of New Academy of Fine Art at "Pushkinskaya 10", The Museum of Nonconformist Art, Saint Petersburg

2003

Photography exhibition from the collection of the Museum of New Academy of Fine Art, Russian House, Berlin

Le 59 Rivoli, Paris

P A B NY, Stop Art Gallery, San Jose

Moscow: City, Spectacle, Capital of Photography, Wallach Art Gallery, New York

2002

Necroromantism. State Museum of urban sculpture, Saint Petersburg

Antique Art Idea and Reality, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin

2001

The Muses: An Exhibition of Vintage & Contemporary Photography, Leslie Lohman Gallery, New York

Children, Egizio’s Project, New York

2000

Heirs of Sparta. Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki

1999

New Positive Processes. State Russian Museum, Mikhailosvky Castle, Saint Petersburg

1997

Saint Petersburg Neoakademist Photography, Latvian Museum of Foreign Art (Mākslas muzejs Rīgas birža), Riga

Kabinet. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1994

Eros and Identity. Stuart Levy Gallery, New York

1988

Manege, Moscow