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Vladimir Semenskiy creates large-scale paintings in which bodily movement and spontaneous gesture shape the image. His work explores the relationship between physical presence, inner rhythm, and the emergence of form. Intimate yet unpredictable, his paintings bring figurative imagery into dialogue with expressive painterly gesture. Freedom is central to this practice: the image develops through the act of painting rather than following a predetermined scheme.

Vladimir Semenskiy (b. 1968, Imantau, Kazakhstan) is a contemporary painter whose practice moves between large-scale figurative painting and abstract colour-form works. He studied at the Art College in Krasnoturinsk and later at the Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.

Since the early 1990s, Semenskiy has developed a painterly language based on spontaneous gesture, bodily movement and the physical encounter between artist, material and canvas. His work brings figurative imagery into dialogue with expressive abstraction, exploring threshold states, shifting identities and the emergence of form. 

Since 2014, he has been a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia. Since 2009, he has been represented by 11.12 Gallery, Moscow; from 2010 to 2015, he was represented by Krokin Gallery, Moscow. Before 2022, he lived and worked between Moscow, Europe and Southeast Asia. 

His works are held in the Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg; the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan; the Sevastopol Art Museum; the International Art Museum of America, San Francisco; the Imago Mundi / Luciano Benetton Collection, Italy; and other public, corporate and private collections in Europe, the United States and Russia.