Shagin Dmitry Vladimirovich

Soviet and Russian artist, film director, actor, member of the creative group "Mitki". Exhibited since 1976 at exhibitions of Leningrad unofficial artists: TEV (Association of Experimental Exhibitions), TEII (Association of Experimental Fine Arts). Since 1976, a member of the TEV (Association of Experimental Exhibitions). In 1981 he became one of the founders and a member of the board of TEII (Association of Experimental Fine Arts). Since 1991 he has been a member of the International Federation of Artists (IFA). Since 1988, he has been a participant in a number of foreign group exhibitions: Paris, Cologne, Antwerp, Lausanne, Vienna, San Diego, New York, Washington. Many private collectors of foreign countries, the USSR and Russia, the Russian Museum, the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, the Novosibirsk Art Museum, acquired the works. One of the organizers of the publishing house Mitkilibris. In 1996, together with Alexander Florensky, he founded and began curating the MITKI-VHUTEMAS gallery. In 2006 he founded the museum of the creative association MITKI.