Ivan Ninety was born in 1990 in the city of Protvino, Moscow Oblast. Educated as a software engineer and graphic designer. The artist began his career in 2007 with graffiti writing, while fascinating with film photography. He participated in the group exhibition Wall Elements in the Manege Central Exhibition Hall (St. Petersburg, 2018) and in the II and III Artmossphere Biennales of Street Wave Art (2016, 2018). Ruarts Gallery held the artist’s Death of Flowers solo exhibition in 2018. In addition to murals, the artist creates collages, works with wood and other materials, as well as with objects found; makes assemblies or objects, engages in illustration, film photography and publishes his own magazines (zines).
Ivan Ninety’s works are held in private collections in Russia, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, the United Kingdom, Israel, Brazil, Puerto Rico and Australia.
Works
Solo exhibitions
2021
Baggage. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2019
Death of Flowers. Futuro Gallery, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2018
Death of Flowers. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2017
Memo. FGA space, Factory "Crystal", Moscow, Russia
2015
Fragments and finds. Artkommunalka, Kolomna, Russia
2013
The Beginning. City Museum, Protvino, Russia
MURALS
2022
Street art week festival. Novokuznetsk, Russia
2021
Architecture of the word festival. Moscow, Russia
Here and now festival. Moscow, Russia
Kaliningrart festival. Kaliningrad, Russia
Wet paint festival. Sheregesh, Russia
Gorky fest. Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Radiance CCA. Apatity, Russia
2020
Tales of the golden apples festival. Almetyevsk, Russia
Carte-Blanche 3 festival. Yekaterinburg, Russia
Mesto festival. Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Street Morphology festival. Tyumen, Russia
2019
Mural for Oktava Creative Industrial Cluster. Tula, Russia
Science Graphite 2019 festival. Novosibirsk, Russia
Carte-Blanche 2 festival. Yekaterinburg, Russia
The Street Art Forum. MMOMA. Moscow, Russia
2018
Arte Core 2k18 festival. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Chilim festival. Astrakhan, Russia
Carte-Blanche festival. Yekaterinburg, Russia
2017
Chilim" festival. Astrakhan, Russia
Urban Forms Foundation. Lodz, Poland
30 sides of yourself graffiti jam. Tele2 x Artmosshere. Park Muzeon, Moscow, Russia
Artification project. Gamma festival, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Beauty, that not for everyone project with Artmossphere. Manege, Moscow, Russia
2016
Tuborg green fest, winner of art competition, Moscow, Russia
30 sides of honesty graffiti jam. Park Muzeon, Moscow, Russia
Outline festival. MoZal territory, Moscow, Russia
Counterculture project. Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
2014
Antonovka apples book festival, Kolomna, Russia
2012
Chistoe pole street art festival. Archfarm, Tula region, Russia
2009
Energy of dreams graffiti festival, Moscow, Russia
IT-ART graffiti festival, Moscow, Russia
Group exhibitions
2023-2024
New Now, Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2022
Personal Space, a collective retrospective exhibition, The Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Escape! Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
May daydreams. Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2021
TRUE LY. Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2019
Wall. The Street Art Forum. The Moscow Museum of Modern Art in collaboration with Ruarts Foundation and the Street Art Research Institute, Moscow, Russia
2018
Wall Elements 2. Ruarts Gallery. Moscow, Russia
III Street Wave Art Biennale Artmossphere. CSC Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
Wall Elements 2. Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia
Other Shores. Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia
2017
Enter the history. Moscow City Museum, Moscow, Russia
Rabitsa +7. Club Rabitsa. Moscow, Russia
2016
#Project64 "Not / addiction". VDNH, Pavilion 64. Moscow, Russia
II Street Wave Art Biennale Artmossphere. Manege. Moscow, Russia
Ripened fingers of elephants. VZ "Here". Moscow, Russia
Ground-Zine. A book that does not exist. Ground. Moscow, Russia
2012
Ninety & Emon. Factory. Electrozavod. Moscow, Russia
2010
TRAFORO | exhibition of stencil art. Moscow, Russia
GRANTS
2015
Grant for Street Art. RuArts Foundation and Artmossphere. Moscow, Russia
Museum-residence Artkommunalka. Kolomna, Russia
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