Trained as a graphic artist, Valery Orlov has been engaged with photography since the early 1980s. From 1983, he is a member of the Russian Union of Artists.
Works by Valery Orlov are held in the collections of the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), the State Hermitage (St. Petersburg), the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow), and in other museum collections both in Russia and worldwide (Belgium, the USA, Germany, Italy, and France).
Valery Orlov lives and works in Moscow, Russia.
Common:
1946
Was born in The Town of Ostrov. Pskov Region. Russia
Lives and works in Moscow. Russia
Education:
1969
Graduated from The Graphic Art Faculty of Moscow State Teachers' Training Institute
Personal exhibitions:
1992
"Graphic Seasons". Hall of The Artists' Union. Moscow. Russia
Gallery "Moscow Collection". Moscow. Russia
"Drawings". Gallery "Studio 20". Moscow. Russia
1994
Within The Framework of 3rd International Biennial of Easel Graphic Art "Kaliningrad - Koenigsberg". Kaliningrad Art Gallery. Russia
"Papers". Novosibirsk Picture Gallery. Russia
1996
Central Artists' House. Moscow. Russia
1997
Central Artists' House. Moscow. Russia
"Selected Works 1990-97". State Russian Museum. St.Petersburg. Russia
2000
"Spanish Impressions". Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Moscow. Russia
"Obschepit-1". National Center for Contemporary Art Within Photobiennial 2000. Moscow, St. Petersburg. Russia
2001
"Metro". Within The Project "Borders" of National Center for Contemporary Art. 'Levall' Gallery. Novosibirsk. Russia
"Obschepit-2". National Center for Contemporary Art. St. Petersburg. Russia
2002
"Beauty for All" (With A.Mitlyanskaya). Krokin Gallery. Moscow. Russia
"Nature & Morte" (With A.Mitlyanskaya). Krokin Gallery. Moscow. Russia
2008
"Small, simple, significant". Kokin gallery, Moscow
Group exhibitions:
1972
"Drawing. Water-Colours". I.I. Nivinsky's Studio. Moscow. Russia
1973
"Exhibition of Young Artists". I.I. Nivinsky's Studio. Moscow. Russia
1974
"Report Exhibition of I.I. Nivinsky's Art Studio" Moscow. Russia
1975
"Exhibition of Young Artists". Artists' House On Kuznetsky Bridge. Moscow. Russia
1977
"Exhibition of Painting". 28. M.Gruzinskaya St.. Moscow. Russia
1981
"All-Union Exhibition of Print". Central Artists' House. Moscow. Russia
1989
"Exhibition of Drawings". Artists' House On Kuznetsky Bridge. Moscow. Russia
"Graphics of Moscow Artists". Central Artists' House. Moscow. Russia
1990
"All-Union Exhibition of The Artists' Union". Manege. Moscow. Russia
1991
"Exhibition of Printed Graphics. Senezh". Central Artists' House. Moscow. Russia
"Art-Myth". Manege. Moscow. Russia
1992
"A Letter to Bulgakov". Central Artists' House. Moscow. Russia
"Festival of Russian Art". Edinburgh. Great Britain
"Do You Know these Names?". Gallery "Raissa". Erfurt. Germany
1992-93
"Parcels for Germany". Central Artists' House. Moscow. Russia.
Tranenpalace. Berlin. Germany
1993
"Moscow Artists. New Acquisitions". Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Moscow. Russia
"Avant-Garde and Tradition. Books of Russian Artists of The XX-th Century". Russian State Library. Moscow. Russia
"Books By Russian and Soviet Arists 1910-1993". Uzerzh. France
"Art-Myth". Manege. Moscow. Russia
"Graphics". Central Artists' House. Moscow. Russia
"Russian Art of The 60s-90s". Osnabruk. Germany
"Non-Figurative Tradition in Russian Art". National Museum of Painting and Sculpture. Ankara. Turkey
1994
"Abstract Graphics". Museum of Fine Arts. Oryol. Russia
"Russian Modern Graphic Art". Central Artists' House. Moscow. Russia
"Against Violence". Erfurt. Germany
"Selected Graphics 1993". Center of France Mazerel. Belgium
"Seasons. Russian Graphic Art". Center of Arts. Odense. Denmark
1995
"Moscow Meets Berlin". Art-Agency "Horn+Shtammer". Berlin. Germany
"Moscow Studios II. View". Academy of Arts. Berlin. Germany
Exhibition of Works of The Prize Winners of International Biennials of Easel Graphic Art "Kaliningrad - Konigsberg". From The Collection of Kaliningrad Art Gallery. Within The Framework of The 2nd Triennial of Graphics of The Baltic Countries "Sand and Stone"
Inter-Baltic Center of Culture. Gdansk. Poland
1995-96
"The Book Garden. Contemporary Russian Artist's Books". Off-Centre Gallery. Bristol; The John Rylands University Library. Manchester; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery. Swansea; Aberystwyth Arts Centere; Stormont Rooms. Rye. Great Britain
1996
4-th International Biennial of Easel Graphic Art "Kaliningrad - Koenigsberg". Out-of-Contest Show. Kaliningrad State Art Gallery. Russia
"Ways of Paper". Central Artist's House. Moscow. Russia
1997
"International Quadriennial of Graphic Art". Central Artist's House. Moscow. Russia
"Contemporary Russian Graphic Art from The Collection of Kaliningrad Art Gallery".
Municipal Art Gallery. Kostroma. Russia
1997-98
"Russian Constructivist Roots: Present Concerns". The Art Gallery University of Mariland; The Art Gallery University of New Hampshire; Dickinson College. Pennsylvania; World Bank. Washington. DC. USA
1998
"Artist and Poet's Book". National Center for Contemporary Art. Nizhny Novgorod Branch. Russia
"Book and Calamities". Ahmatova's Museum. St Petersburg. Russia
Festival Novgorod. Russia
"Not Only for Art's Sake!". Rutgers University. New Brunswick. USA
Art-Salon '98: "Project of Snake". Gallery "Today". Manege. Moscow. Russia of Arts "Pushkin and Contemporaneity". Yaroslavl. Kostroma. Nizhny
1999
Exhibition Tour "Dedicated to A.S.P." National Center for Contemporary Art. Moscow; Nizhny Tagil State Museum of Fine Arts; Ekaterinbure State Museum of Fine Arts; Ufa Museum of Fine Arts. Bashkiria. Russia
"Tinned Sardines". National Center for Contemporary Art. Kaliningrad Branch. Museum of World Ocean. Kaliningrad. Russia
"Poesia Visiva - Net Poetry". Culturcentrum. Brugge. Belgium
"Art Communication Tour". Line. Austria; Moscow. Russia
"Artist's Book 1970-90". Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Moscow. Russia
2000
Ам Linden Platz Gallery. Vaduz. Liechtenstein
"Paper Methamorphosis". Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Moscow. Russia
"Still Life and Photography". State Museum of History of St.Petersburg. St . Petersburg. Russia
"Adaptation". Saharov Museum. Moscow. Russia
"Paper Sculpture". State Russian Museum. St.Petersburg. Russia
"Paper Abstraction". International Cultural Center. St.Petersburg. Russia
"Abstract Art in Russia". State Russian Museum. St. Petersburg. Russia
2002
"Art Chicago". Krokin gallery booth. Chicago. USA
2003
"SFIAE". Krokin gallery booth. San Francisco. USA
"School". Krokin gallery within the project "Archival Contemporaniety". Moscow. Russia
2009
ART MOSCOW, Central House of Artists, Krokin gallery booth
2011
"Earth. Space. Gagarin". Krokin gallery. Moscow
2012
"Tell Me, Uncle...". Krokin gallery. Moscow
2014
"ZOO". Krokin gallery, Zoological Museum
of Moscow State University by M. V. Lomonosov. Moscow, Russia