Dmitry Tsvetkov was born in 1961 in Kolomna. In 1988, the artist graduated from the faculty of painting in Moscow State Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov. From 1988 to 1991, Tsvetkov worked at the monumental painting workshop in Moscow. From 1991 to 1993, he lived and worked in New York. In 1996–1997, Tsvetkov worked as an artist in The Moscow Times newspaper, from 1998 to 2001 – in the Izvestia newspaper. In 2006, Tsvetkov became a scholarship holder of the Joseph Brodsky Foundation in Rome. In 2007, he was awarded with the Master Prize (an initiative of the curators of the Kovcheg Gallery, Moscow) for the best exhibition of the year. In 2010, he interned at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation, Italy. The artist was a Kandinsky Prize nominee in 2008, 2009, 2012. In addition to paintings and graphic works, Dmitry Tsvetkov creates works using decorative and applied techniques, such as sewing, beadwork, embroidery, knitting, and tapestries creating. Clothing, accessories, toys, and household items are not functional objects for the author, but a medium and material for the artistic practice. Today the works by Dmitry Tsvetkov are included in the collections of leading museums, such as the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and others.
The song is sung. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Showroom. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Soft Homeland, Guangzhou Contemporary Art Centre, Guangzhou, China
Russians on Pancake. Zverev Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
To Fly! Tula Regional Art Museum, Tula, Russia
Musical concert for chromatic accordion. From the poems by Dmitry Prigov. Krasnoyarsk Museum and Exhibition Centre, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Wardrobes of Moscow. With the support of the Krokin Gallery, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Ships. Dukley European Art Community, Budva, Montenegro
Workshop 123, Hall of the Artists Union, Podgorica, Montenegro
Song. Dukley European Art Community, Budva, Montenegro
I Love Life. Yugoceania, Kotor, Montenegro
Military. Catwalk shows. Berlin, Brussels, Perugia
Morning paints tender. Krokin Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Made in Guslitsa. Art estate Guslitsa, Moscow Region, Russia
Crematory for Barbie. Matryoshka Maternity Ward, «Tula Necropolis» Museum, Tula, Russia
Soft fatherland. Art-Guslitsa, Moscow region, Russia
The State. Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow; The Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre, Krasnoyarsk; Museum of Modern Art, Tver, Russia
That’s Dead. (Сurated by Linor Goralik). Marat&Julia Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Hautecoupure. (In collaboration with S.Rumiantseva). Krokin Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Our boy restrains himself. Krokin Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Cemetery. Krokin Gallery, within the project «Archivation of Contemporaneity», Moscow, Russia
Gold Rush. Krokin Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Arsenal. Tula Kremlin, Tula, Russia
All Hail to Arms. Project OGI Club, Moscow, Russia
Proud Ace. Fine Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Philately. Guelman Gallery, Moscow / NCCA, St. Petersburg, Russia
Flowers Poems, Albums. Soros Contemporary Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Stalin Wake. Project OGI Club, Moscow, Russia
Dmitry Tsvetkov, Maria Delforje. L N'est Pas C Gallery, Jenvalle, Belgium
Dmitry Tsvetkov, Philipp Lavandi. Patricia And Jery Perio De Corbion, Gesves, Belgium
The Axe Porridge. L-Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Music Phrase. Today Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Bad News. L-Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Great Geographic Discoveries. A-3 Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Awards for Life. Expo-88 Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The New Archeology. House of Sculptors, Moscow, Russia
Dmitry Tsvetkov. Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The garden where only you, Dmitriy Tsvetkov and Alexandra Bocheverova, as part of the exhibition for the 'Teacher / Student' initiative at HSE ART GALLERY, Moscow, Russia
Threads. Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
New Now. The Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Personal Space, a collective retrospective exhibition, the Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Soft Homeland. The Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
The Russian Fairy Tale. From Vasnetsov to the Present, the New Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow, Russia
Post Pop: East Meets West, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Art Space Event. The Ruarts Gallery, Artplay Big Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia
Noir. The Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Ice Age. The 3rd International Photography Month in Moscow: Photobiennale 2000, Garage Centre of Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
Socialist Art: Political Art in Russia. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
La Maison Rouge. Foundation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France
Messages from Moscow Artists. Helios Fukuno Creative Cultural Centre, curated by Georgy Nikich, Toyama, Japan
Europalia festival, Brussels, Belgium
Moscow Breakthrough. Bargehouse, London, UK
Na Куport!. Russische Kunst Heute, Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
Art as a Tourism. Maly Manege, Moscow, Russia
Christmas. Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Klava's Lovers. (Avant-Gardist Club). Art Moscow Fair, Moscow, Russia
The Wall Newspaper. A. Sakharov Centre, Moscow, Russia
Chukchee is a Good Man. Zverev Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Motherland or Death. Zverev Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Museum of Non-Conformism, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Alphabet. Dar Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Kunstmarkt. Dresden, Germany
The Russia Collection 2. Palace of Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
The World of Sensual Things. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow , Russia
International Art Initiatives Forum. Maly Manege, Moscow, Russia
International Art Plein Air. Kutaisi, Georgia; Paris, France
Business+Art. The Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Conversion. The Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Art-Myth 3. Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia
VII Congress of Peoples' Deputy. The Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Moscow Artists. Rondanin Gallery, Rome, Italy
Joint-Venture. The Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Moscow Artists. Osaka, Japan
The XVII Youth Exhibition. Kuznetsky Most, Moscow, Russia
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm
Contemporary Art museum ART4.ru, Moscow
Ruarts Foundation, Moscow
Guelman Gallery, Moscow
Krokin Gallery, Moscow
Private collections
