Georgy Makarov

Was born in 1969 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan.

Education:

In 1988 he graduated from the Karaganda Teachers Training School, where his specialty was painting and graphic arts.

Since 1988 he has been living and working in Almaty. Since 1995, Georgy has been teaching painting and composition at multidiscipline gymnasium No. 79, Almaty, and has been leading the NEW Studio.

Since 1996, Georgy has been actively participating in group exhibitions, art projects, original ceramics, small drawings and miniature fairs, has been a member of the Green Market art group and the Seger Cone art union, and has been holding personal exhibitions.

Lives and works in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Exhibitions:

2018

“Form. Texture. Plane”, Arvest  Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

2017

“Long Waiting for the Meal”, personal exhibition, Ausstellungsort H + W Art & Bau GmbH, Dresden, Germany.

“SugarTheorem”, personal exhibition, Kazarian Art Center, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

2016

“Clothes in art”, group exhibition, the fund of Mikhail Shemyakin,  St. Petersburg, Russia.

2014

“Legendary”, personal exhibition, Arvest Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

“1+2”, a joint project with artists Elena and Vladimir Grigoryan, Tossa de Mar, Spain.

“COFFEE Cup Reading”, personal exhibition, Clay House Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

“Time for Tea”, joint project with artist Vsevolod Demidov, Art-Almaty Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

 2013

“I Want to LIVE”, a charitable workshop and an auction for a children’s hospice, Arvest Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

“Legends”,  personal exhibition, Arvest Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

“The Stone Game”, joint project with artist Elena Grigoryan, Kasteyev Fine Arts Museum, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

2012

“Childhood”, group exhibition, Art-Almaty Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

“City”, art project, Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan.

“A Travelling Circus”, joint project with artist Natalya Lepikhina, designer dolls, pastel drawings, graphic arts, Art-Almaty Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

2011

“Repast”, personal exhibition, Arvest Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

“Istanbul – Transit – Constantinople”, group exhibition, Art-Almaty Gallery, Almaty.

“Fish Party”, exhibition of the Green Market art group, Аrt-FoLio Gallery, Almaty.

2010

“Play”, personal exhibition, Arvest Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Exhibition of the Green Market art group, Аrt-FoLio Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

2009

“The Delicate Tracery”, personal exhibition, pastel drawings, graphic arts, porcelain painting, Arvest Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Parade of galleries, Kasteyev Fine Arts Museum, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

“The Bull, Winter, and Fantasy”, Art-Almaty Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

2008

“Expecting a Miracle”, international project, a Christmas fair, Arvest Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

2007

“A Rustle of Wings”, international project, a Christmas fair, Arvest Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Makarov’s pastel drawings were included in Natalya Maslova’s monograph The Periodic System of the Laws of Perception and Comprehension published by the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

“Children Need Love”, charitable group exhibition, Kasteyev Fine Arts Museum, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

“Artists to Children”, charitable group exhibition, Central Exhibition Hall, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

2006

“A Flying Tatar”,  international art project, the Nevzorovs’ Fine Arts Museum, Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan.

“The Open Caspian”, a group exhibition, Kovcheg Gallery, Aktau, Kazakhstan.

“Turning the Pages of Dreams”, a personal exhibition, Tengri Umai Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Makarov’s pastel drawings were included in Natalya Maslova’s monograph The Periodic System of the General Laws of the Human Society published by the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, Moscow,  Russia.

“A River of Arts”, group exhibition, Chimkent,  Kazakhstan.

“Jam Session”, group exhibition, Voyager Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Contact, together with artist Artyom Goreslavets, pastel drawings, ceramics, Voyager Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

2005

“Under the Great Dome of Asia”, group exhibition, Voyager Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

“The Road Home”, personal exhibition, pastel drawings, Kovcheg Gallery, Aktau, Kazakhstan.

“Through the Prism of Time”, group exhibition, Art Navat Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

“Suburbs”, group exhibition, Voyager Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

2004

“Wayfairing”,  international project, Kovcheg Gallery, Aktau, Kazakhstan.

“Dreaming”, personal exhibition, Tengri Umai Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

“Kaleidoscope”, together with artist Yerlan Musabalinov, Tengri Umai Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

“Dance”, together with artist Yerzhan Nurmagambetov, Tribuna Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

2000

“A New Moon Dance”,  personal exhibition, graphic arts, Tengri Umai Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

1998

“ProVitamin Sur98”,  group exhibition, Ular Gallery, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

1997

“Op Art 1”, a group exhibition, Central Exhibition Hall, Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Museum and private collections, awards:

In 2010, Georgy Makarov was awarded a golden medal for artwork in scientific monographs written by the Russian Academy’s member Natalya Maslova (2006 and 2007).

Georgy’s works are held in private collections in Russia, Kazakhstan, Poland, the USA, Canada, Germany, Australia, Italy, Great Britain, Spain, and Azerbaijan. His works are also displayed at Kasteyev Fine Arts Museum, Almaty, Kazakhstan.