Sergey Anufriev was born in the year 1964, in a family of artists and nonconformists of Moscow origin, in Odessa, which turned into the center of the modern art world of the southern Russia and the only town and home of unofficial culture in Ukraine. This atmosphere, which was genetically connected to oases of a “second culture” (Moscow, Leningrad, the Baltic States, the Crimea, Caucasus, Central Asia, and Siberia), gave rise to a new wave of modern art artists, who had to move to Moscow soon, because of the lack of audience. Sergey Anufriev moved to Moscow in the early 80’s and started his individual career in the circle of conceptualists.
In the year 1986 he organized and became the first chief of a legendary Moscow Club of Avant-gardists (CLAVA) – one of the first unions, which set “legalization” of the new artistic practices as their main goal.
In the year 1987 Anufriev took part at the project “Pop Mechanics” and together with Jury Leiderman from Odessa and a Moscovite Pavel Pepperstein founded the group “Inspection Medical Hermeneutics”. Now lives and works in Odessa, Kiev and Moscow.

Selected solo exhibitions
2016 Odessa catacombs. Odessa, Ukraine
Single Viewer Gallery, EIZEN LAB, Kosztur's apartment, Odessa, Ukraine
Sergey Anufriev. Reflections, Galerie Iragui, Moscow, Russia
2015 Apothecary Garden, Botanical Garden of Moscow State University, within the framework of the 6-th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art parallel program, «On plein-air», Moscow, Russia
2014 Saturnalia. MosHaos, Moscow, Russia
Saturnalia. Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2011 Patternism. RuArts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2007 Peace to the world! GazGallery, Moscow, Russia
1998 The Great No One’s. (With A. Nasonov and I. Dmitriev). L Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1995 A Souvenir`s Problem. Blank Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
1994 Aufder Such nach neuen “Nervi rennn”. (With О. Ziangirova and М. Chuikova). Sprinkenhof, Hamburg, Germany
Mentale Landschaften Russlands. (With О. Ziangirova and М. Chuikova). Galerie Parzival, Berlin, Germany
1993 Aqua Vita. (Together with O. Ziangirova and М. Chuikova). Contemporary Art Museum, Odessa, Ukraine
1991 Sergei Anufriev – Alexander Gnilitsky. Gallery 1.0, Moscow, Russia
1983 Exhibition at N. Alexeev’s apartment. APTART, Moscow, Russia


Selected group exhibitions

2012 The Pipe or the Alley of Longevity. Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2011 Hostages of Voids. Aesthetics of empty space in Russian Art during XIX-XX centuries. The State Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky val, Moscow
Nothingness. RuArts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Solitaire. (A joint installation of Sergey Anufriev and Katusha Chalaya). Iragui Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2007 I Belive. Installation Buratinia, Moscow, Russia
2005 Information Leak. (A group exhibition-installation of Sergey Anufriev and Arkady Nasonov). The State Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky val, Moscow, Russia
2000 The Pole of Cold. Inspection Medical Hermeneutics and Russian Art of the 90s, National Higher School of Fine Arts, Paris, France
1999 MG Star. Inspection of Russian Art of the 90s. Krasnoyarsk Museum & Exhibition Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
A Wolf of a Man. Continuation of Hunting, Tere Gallery, Odessa, Ukraine
1994 Cloudy Commission. Venice Biennale, presented by the Sprovieri Gallery, Venice, Italy
1993 Cloudy Commission. Series of exhibitions in Germany
1992 Cloudy Commission. Series of exhibitions in Switzerland
1990 Medhermeneutics. Kunsthall, Dusseldorf, Germany
1988 Baths (exhibition-action). Avant-gardists Club, Sandunovsky Baths, Moscow, Russia
1987 In Hell (exhibition-action). Avant-gardists Club, Moscow, Russia
Retrospective of Moscow Artists’s Works 1957-1987. Amateur Association Hermitage, Moscow, Russia
First exhibition of Avant-gardists Club (CLAVA). Moscow, Russia
Cubism. Avant-gardists Club, Vrubel Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1986 Art versus Commerce (exhibition-action). Bitsa Park, Moscow, Russia
1984 Odessa-Moscow. APTART Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1983 APTART in Nature. Kalistovo, Moscow Region, Russia
APTART behind a Fence. Tarasovka, Moscow Region, Russia
Come Yesterday and You'll Be First. City without Walls: an urban artists collective Inc, Contemporary Russian
Art Center of America, New Jersey, New York, USA
1982 First APTART Exhibition. APTART Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1981 Russian NewWave. Contemporary Russian Art Center of America, Soho, International Art Center, New York, USA