VLADIMIR TSIVIN (b. 1949)
Vladimir Aleksandrovich Tsivin was born in Leningrad in 1949. He graduated from the department of pottery and glassware at the V Muchina Higher School of Arts and Crafts in 1972. From 1972 to 1976 he worked in Tomsk, Siberia, as chief artist at the Bogashevo Experimental Pottery Factory.
In 1975 he joined the USSR Artist’s Union, and from 1976 he worked in the Leningrad branch of the Russian Art Fund experimental ceramic workshops. He still lives and works in St. Petersburg.
Tsivin’s work has been exhibited in Russia since 1972 and internationally since 1973 – in Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Taiwan and the U.S.A.
Above: Vladimir Tsivin, 2003
Curriculum vitae
| Selected solo exhibitions: | |
| 1990 | Galerie Besson, London, First London Exhibition |
| 1993 | Old Craft Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, USA |
| 1998 | Museum of Applied Arts of St Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design, St Petersburg, Russia |
| 1999 | Galerie Besson, London, Works from London, Glasgow, Oregon and St Petersburg |
| 2001 | State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Anna Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia |
| 2002 | Contemporary Crafts Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA |
| 2003 | Galerie Besson, London, Black and White |
| Selected group exhibitions: | |
| 1989-90 | Lyons, Madrid, Linz, Budapest, Helsinki: Ceramics of Europe |
| 1991 | Flagstaff, USA: Made in the USA – an exhibition of contemporary ceramic art by artists from Estonia, Latvia and Russia Bologna, Italy, Gallery Il Giardino dell’Arte: Ceramics of Leningrad Laveno Mombello, Italy, Palazzo delle Esposizioni: La ceramica del ‘900 |
| 1992 | Taiwan, National Museum of History, Republic of China: The International Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Ceramic Art |
| 1993 | Beer-Sheva, Israel: Ceramics Biennale Beer-Sheva |
| 1994 | St Petersburg, Russia, The gallery in the Summer Garden: Exhibition of Six |
| 1995 | Phoenix, USA, Bentley Gallery: Figurative Clay |
| 1996 | Dumfries, Great Britain, The Exhibition of International Contemporary Art in the spirit of Robert Burns: Catch the moments as they fly London, Great Britain, Galerie Besson: Pictures and Pots |
| 1998 | St Petersburg, Russia, Museum of Ceramists of Petersburg: Meeting Riga, Lavia, Gallery of the Artists Union of Latvia: International Ceramic Symposium, 1998 |
| 2000 | London, Galerie Besson, Summer exhibition |
| 2004 | London, Galerie Besson, Contemporary Potters |
| 2008 | London, Galerie Besson, Classic & Contemporary Ceramics London, Galerie Besson, Twenty Years, Twenty Pots |
Exhibitions at Galerie Besson
| Twenty Years, Twenty Pots | Sep - Oct 2008 |
| Classic & Contemporary Ceramics | Feb - Mar 2008 |
| Contemporary Potters | Feb - Mar 2004 |
| Vladimir Tsivin: Black and White | Apr - May 2003 |
| Vladimir Tsivin: Works from London, Glasgow, Oregon and St Petersburg | May 1999 |
| Pictures and Pots | Sep - Oct 1996 |
| Vladimir Tsivin: First London Exhibition | Oct - Nov 1990 |
