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Media - Oil Painting, Watercolours, Acrylics, Mixed Media
Phone - (495) 635-65-43
Website - http://artkhokhlov.ru
Email - [email protected]
Ivan Khohlov was born in Moscow in 1945. He started drawing and painting when he was 3 years
old. In 1957-1959 he attended the Art Studio of a local Children Leisure Center. In April 1959
one of the works of the young artist was published in Murzilka children magazine. In the same
year Vania Khohlov was awarded the Second Prize of Pionerskaya Pravda newspaper for his
designe of a stamp.
In 1966 he entered Moscow Polygraphic Institute, the department of Graphic Arts majoring in
Graphic Design and graduated in 1972. In 1973 he was became a member of Moscow Devision of the
Artists' Union with recommendations from A.A. Sidorov, D.K. Bisty and M. Alpatov.
Since 1972 Ivan Khohlov had worked in the Center of Graphic Arts, for 20 years in all. He
created 87 color linoleum engravings with various subjects of Russian and European tales as
well as his own tale "Joyful Dwarfs" which came out in Ilexa Publishing in 1997. All
these yeas Ivan has worked with major Moscow publishing houses like Detskaya Kniga,
Sovremennik, Yunost, Detgiz, Sovetski Hudozhnik where books with his illustrations came out.
In the 80-th his color linoleum engravings were exhibited in many countries Europe, Latin
America, Asia.
After the Center of Graphic Arts was closed in 1992 Ivan Khohlov found himself unemployed and
decided to dedicate all his time to painting and exhibitions. His creativity is blooming and
he works on several major projects: The Bible Series, which starts with The Prophets and The
Symphony of Sea Series. For this series he creates his own unique mixed technique. He a series
of miniatures "My Beloved Places Around Moscow", continues the Prophets series
(gouache, mixed technique), paints a big series "Barvikha 20 Years Ago. Seasons"
(acryl), a series for children "Life and Wonderful Adventures of a Pony and a Hare"
(acryl), a series "Reminiscences of Breigel. Metamorphosis" (gouache, oil), a series
"Color and Line"; he continues the Bible series with The Deserts. Ivan's latest
works are a series "Creation of the World or The Tree of Life" (mixed technique).
Works of this series won the Second Price in an internet contest in Japan last year. The
address: www.eart.ne.jp
For the past 10 years the artist has exhibited a lot. His first exhibition took place in The
State Ostrovski Museum Preodolenie (overcoming) Humanitarian Center. His solo exhibition took
place there in 1992. Later his works were exhibited in Izvestia Publishers, in Nega Culture
Center (annually); he had two exhibitions with the best National Art Magazine Nashe Nasledie
(our heritage); also in the museum of The History of Moscowand in the Library of Foreign
Literature (4 times), I Moscow City Duma; his works are exhibited in Sosny Gallery (supervised
by the President's administration)on a permanent basis, his solo exhibition took place there
in 2002.
The most important press publications:
# Izvestia, 1995, author A. Plutnik
# The Moscow Times, 1995, author S. Kudenkoff
# Nashe Nasledie magazine, 1994, author I. Shvedova
# Politika newspaper (Denmark), 1994, author D. Schmidt
# Ivan Khohlov Cataligue, Modus Graffiti Publishers sponsored by Nashe Nasledie Magazine and
Soros Contemporary Art Center
# Dostoinstvo newspaper, 1997, author V. Akhlomov
# Professional magazine, 1997, author S. Sergeev
# Metsenat (Donor) Foundation Newsletter, 2000
# Charity Herald magazine, 2001, author O. Tsigankova
# Our Isograph magazine, 2001, author N. Zaitseva
# Na Rublevke newspaper, 2002, author V. Leonidov
# Kultura newspaper, 2003, author V. Leonidov
Television paid attention to Ivan Khohlov's art several times. The best documentary about him
named Preodolenie (overcoming) was made in 1996 by S. Krasinskaya and B. Amarova, there also
was a story on TV in the Check republic.
Internet addresses:
# www.ivanart.sitecity.ru
# www.artwanted.com
# www.vanya.artistportfolio.net (a purely
religious site)
# virtualgallery.spb.ru
# www.spacearts.info
# www.abs-gallery.com
# www.artmajeur.com
# www.vangogh.ru
# muzyka1043.hut.ru
Khohlov's works are exhibited in museums of many cities of Russia (The museum of Artiom City,
Museum of the History of Moscow, State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Moscow State
Duma Museum, Khohlovs works are private collections of M. Rostropovich (works of different
series), G. Uranov, A. Shokhin, Ch. Aitmatova (the portrait of Rev. A. Men was given to
Aitmatov together with the Prize for "Connecting Cultures" in Dusseldorf in 1998, .
Abroad in the USA, Canada, Japan, Australia, Germany.
Al. MacGeorge (Great Britain) has the largest in Europe collection of the works of "The
Tree of Life" series.
87 color linoleum engravings were sold to Shushenskoye Picture Gellery. These works were
organized into a moving exhibit which traveled all across Siberia for many years.
Last year the artist presentes to the ctown of Bazarny Karabulak (Saratov region) 15 color
linoleum engravings for the local museum. They are exhibited in a special room where art
lessons also take place.
In 1996 The Russian Culture Foundation bought one work of the Reminiscences of Breigel
series.
In the Contemporary Russian Art Ratings published by Professional Artists Union Ivan Khohlov
occupies the 3-rd place. It means he is among the artists acclaimed by the art market and
public.
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