Alexander Kosnichev

Alexander Eugenyivich Kosnichev was born in 1970, in Moscow, into a family of artists. In 1983, he was accepted into the Moscow Secondary School of Art, the preparatory school for Surikov Institute. He completed his education there in 1988 and began actively exhibiting his work.

In 1992, he was accepted to the Surikov Moscow State Institute of Art, and in 1994, undertook study in the painting studio of V. N. Zabelin. He graduated the Institute in 1998. Since 1994, he has been a member of The International Artist’s Fund, and in 1995, he was accepted in the International Federation of Art (UNESCO). Since 1999 he has worked in the painting studio of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts under the famed Tkachev brothers.

He is constantly participating in exhibitions throughout Russia and abroad.•Academy of Arts Golden Medal for his work exhibited in the international art exhibition on the 60th anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 •Diploma of the Union of Artists’ of Russia, 2002 •Tkachev Brothers Scholarship, 2001″The world is so unbelievably beautiful, that I can’t have a passive attitude, and I can’t not paint. I’m happy that I’m able to communicate with many people in a special language that does not require translation. I can speak about the wonder that I see around me, through painting. When I paint, I work not so much with my mind, but with my feelings and emotions, and from the strength of my emotions, the works become full of life, thus stirring the emotions of everyone who sees and experiences them.”