Bio
Born and raised in Australia, Aleksei Shaw graduated from the ANU school of music in 2014 with a bachelor of music, and then graduated from the Repin Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2023. Currently based in Berlin, Germany.
Specializes primarily in figurative and landscape art, he is also eager to share knowledge in a teaching role and further his own knowledge and experience in monumental art forms and technologies. His art explores the experience within our surrounding physical world, focusing on human interactions with nature and within private and public spaces.
Currently not represented by any Gallery.
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Born in 1991 in Subiaco, Western Australia
Resides and works in Berlin, Germany
Education and Training
2018-2023: Diploma (MFA equivalent) in Painting (Monumental Art), I.E Repin Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2015-2018: V.A Surikov Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Moscow, Russia
2010-2014: BA in Performance (Classical Guitar), School of Music, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Selected Exhibitions
2025, “Atelier Wochenende Reinickendorf” (group exhibition), Berlin, Germany
2024, “KunstNacht Art Festival” (solo stall), Passau, Germany
2024, “International Russia’ (group exhibition), Artist Society of Saint Petersburg, Russia
2024, ‘Radford Artshow’ (group exhibition), Radford College, Canberra, Australia
2023, ‘Diploma’ (group exhibition), Museum of the Imperial Academy of Arts I.E Repin, St. Petersburg, Russia
2023, ‘Land of Pskov’ (group exhibition), Union of Artists of Russia Central Exhibition Hall, Pskov, Russia
2023, ‘Land of Pskov’ (group exhibition), Pskov State United Historical, Architectural and Art Museum, Pskov, Russia
2023, ‘Annual best academic drawings’ (group exhibition), Italian Hall, I.E Repin Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia
2022, ‘Plein-air in Pskov’ (group exhibition) Italian Hall, I.E Repin Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia
2022, ‘Annual best academic drawings’ (group exhibition), Italian Hall, I.E Repin Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia
2022, ‘Aleksei Shaw’ (solo show at ‘KunstNacht’ Art festival), Passau, Germany
2018, Group exhibition with teachers and students of I.E Repin academy of fine arts and of Lanzhou institute of fine art at the Lanzhou Institute of Fine Art, China.
Collections
Collection of I.E Repin Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia
Aleksei Shaw features works in various international private collectors
Residencies, Awards & Grants
2023, ‘Borodinskoe’, Karelia, Russia
Professional Contributions
2024 – ongoing - Instructor, ArtGeschoss, Berlin, Germanmy
2023, Instructor, Figure Drawing from Life, Queanbeyan Art Society, Canberra, Australia