1937 Born in Orenburg, Russia.
1954–1959 Student at the 1905 Art School
1962–1966 restorer of frescoes and icons at the Moscow Kremlin and in Novgorod
1971 Began working as a sculptor
1976 Immigrated to France
1979–1986 Editor of the “А-Я” magazine
Since 2001 lives and works in Moscow and Paris
Principal exhibitions
Personal
1990 Holst Halvorsen Gallery, Oslo; Clara Maria Sels Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
1991 Forum Lindenthal Gallery, Cologne, Germany
1993 Clara Maria Sels Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
1994 Clara Maria Sels Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
1995 Oliver Schweden Gallery, Munich, Germany; Clara Maria Sels Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany; La Base Gallery, Paris, France
1997 Centre Culturel Gallery, Elancour, France; Clara Maria Sels Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany; Forum Lindenthal Gallery, Cologne, Germany; Weiller Gallery, Paris, France
1999 Delire en formacion Gallery, Paris, France
2000 Delire en formacion Gallery, Paris, France; Forum Lindenthal Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2001 Cassandra Gallery, Drobak, Norway; Karenina Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2002 Weiller Gallery, Paris, France; Karenina Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2003 Fine Art Gallery, Moscow
2005 Fine Art Gallery, Moscow
2006 Era Foundation, Moscow; Fine Art Gallery, Moscow
2007 Forum Lindenthal Gallery, Cologne, Germany; Fine Art Gallery, Moscow; Weiller Gallery, Paris, France
2009 “Red, White, Black”. NCCA, Moscow; Weiller Gallery, Paris, France; Fine Art Gallery, Moscow
2010 “Imaginary House”, Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow
2013. "Igor Shelkovsky. The Continuity of Change". Moscow Multimedia Art Musem, Moscow
2014 "Reflections about Future". Fine Art Gallery, Moscow
Group
1977 May Salon in Paris; “New Soviet Art. Unnoficial View”. Venice Biennale, Italy
1978 “Dissidents”. the museums of Lodi and Turin, Italy
1979 “Twenty Years of Unofficial Art”. Bohum Museum, Germany
1995“From Gulag to Glasnost”. Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey, USA; “Documenta”, Kassel, Germany
1999 “Transparency”. Institute Cochin, Paris, France
2002 “Abstraction in Russia. 20th Century”. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2003 “Moscow Abstraction. Second Half of the 2oth Century”. State Tretyakov Art Gallery, Moscow
2004 “New Acquisitions”. National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow; “Documenta”, Cassel, Germany
2010 “The City”, Open Gallery, Moscow; “Male Principle”, Open Gallery, Moscow
2011 “Nail heads up ”. Gallery “Kovcheg”, Moscow
2012 "LXXV Generation's Coordinates“, NCCA, Moscow
2013 "Russia XXI. Contemporary Russian Sculpture". NCCA, Moscow
Collections
State Tretyakov Art Gallery, Moscow
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
George Kostacis, Greece
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey, USA
Contemporary Art Museum, Vienna, Austria