My name is Mikhail Sol, 34 years old. St. Petersburg • 17 years of art education, 8 of which at the Imperial Academy of Arts. • My works are recognized by the Russian Ministry of Culture as objects of cultural value of the Russian Federation and cultural heritage of the Russian Federation. • Finalist in two international competitions in the USA. • Exhibited at the Tretyakov Gallery, the Madrid Academy of Arts, Chicago, and the National Museums of Minsk and Astana. • Paintings are in private collections in almost all European countries, the USA, South Africa, China, Canada, and Puerto Rico. • In the collections of 5 state museums. • My most recent paintings sold for $5,800 and $7,500. • Member of the Union of Artists (St. Petersburg) How can I help you? I paint portraits to order and teach art. BIOGRAPHY 1991: Mikhail Sol was born in Vladivostok. 2014: Graduated from the Primorsky Regional Art School, specializing in "Painting Teacher." 2014–2021: Imperial Academy of Arts 2021: Member of the Union of Artists (St. Petersburg). Regular participant in exhibitions and plein air painting. Mikhail Sol's works are included in the collections of the Academy of Fine Arts and in private collections in Russia, China, Germany, Italy, Portugal, France, South Africa, Canada, Spain, and Greece. Major Exhibitions 2025: Ritual. Collaboration with photographer Lyskovets A. (Palma Mansion, St. Petersburg) 2023 Madrid Academy of Arts (Madrid, Spain) 2023 Figurative Art (State Museum of Arts, Astana, Kazakhstan) 2023 Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow) 2022 "Love. Death. "Virgin" (Artifice Gallery, St. Petersburg) 2022 Exhibition of Diplomas of the Academy of Arts (National Art Museum, Minsk, Belarus) 2020 "Here Lies the Classics" (Villa Vitali, St. Petersburg) 2019 "Life Class" (Petersburg Artist International Exhibition Center, St. Petersburg) 2018 Finalist, "The Gateway International Painting Competition", USA 2018 "AMERICAN ART AWARDS", First Place in the "RELIGIOUS OR SPIRITUAL" Category, USA 2018 Fifth All-Russian Competition of Young Artists *The Muse Must Work* (Artmuza, St. Petersburg) 2017 Roads of Peter the Great (White Hall of the Representative Office of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, St. Petersburg) Collections Pushkin Reserve Museum (Russia), Repin Academy of Arts Museum (St. Petersburg), Repin Academy of Arts Methodological Foundation (St. Petersburg), St. Petersburg International Exhibition Center of Artists (St. Petersburg), Methodological Foundation of the Madrid Academy of Fine Arts (Madrid, Spain), Bat Gallery (Chicago, USA), Artifice Gallery (St. Petersburg) Artist's Statement Mikhail Solovyov's paintings are a striking example of the immortality of the classical painting tradition. As an artist, he is drawn to historical, religious, and mythological subjects, through whose imagery he projects a contemporary understanding of the world. The artist believes that the aesthetics of the past, as well as the moral content inherent in the works of the old masters, inherent in these genres, remain relevant today. From his canvases, beautiful maidens and colossal men gaze upon the viewer, moving beyond time and space. These are echoes, echoes, and contemporary visions of the images and aspirations of such geniuses as Rembrandt, Géricault, Delacroix, Ingres, Bouguereau, and, of course, Francisco Goya, whose work becomes a certain ideological pattern for Mikhail. He first closely perceives the distinctive aesthetics of the beautiful and terrible through Los Caprichos (1799) by the Spanish genius. In his work, he strives to convey social, ethical, and political themes in the imagery of the classical academic school, which seems lost and forgotten, but only at first glance.

2021 — Imperial Academy of Art

Expositions:

2023 — “Love. Death. Virgo”, Artefice, Saint-Petersburg

2021 — Joining the Union of Artists, St. Petersburg

2023 — Tretyakov Gallery

2023 — Figurative Art (State Museum of Arts, Astana, Kazakhstan)

2023 — Madrid Academy of Fine Arts (Madrid, Spain)

2025 — original. Collaboration with photographer Lyskovets A. (Palma Mansion, St. Petersburg)

Solovev Mikhail