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Oleg Buryan

Oleg Yuriyevich Buryan (; born 1959, Bila Tserkva, Ukraine) is a Russian artist, who lived in Moscow from the 1980s. In 2012, he moved to St-Petersburg, where he joined the St-Petersburg Union of Artists. He belongs to the first generation of post-Soviet creators, integrated in the international context.

Biography

Before becoming an artist, Buryan studied medicine at the Leningrad Medical Institute, and worked as a lawyer's secretary, a street cleaner, and as a censor for rock lyrics for the Moscow Chief of the Department of Culture.

Buryan received his art education (as tapestry artist) at the Moscow Textile College in the 1980s, and studied video art and independent documentary at Moscow State University from 1994 to 1995 (at Associate Professor Deirdre Boyle)). In 1989, O. Buryan was awarded a VDNKh Silver medal for his contribution to Russian culture, and became the last person to receive such an award in the Soviet period (1985–1991). In his works various elements of archaic, and "ethnic" art are evident.

"Recycled art" is another name for Buryan's art. Some of his sculptures are done as "ready-made" objects and related to the tradition of "Dada" in their absurd humor and strange beauty of animals with human eyes. Buryan's works features versatility in both choice of media and general style, ranging from an oil paintings to an art toys, from a book illustration to a monumental sculpture, from a media art to an installation art, TV and an industrial design. Buryan's works are in the collections of the Bank WestLB (Germany) and the Amer Sports (Finland), the University of Dundee (Scotland), the Kyiv , (Ukraine), the Saint Petersburg Toy Museum, and the Venice Sculpture park.

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