The Russian Academy Of Arts

Organized to mark the 90th anniversary of the Honored Artist of Russia, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts Grigory Ushaev, the exhibition at the Russian Academy of Arts features the artist’s graphic sheets, monumental and decorative works in architecture.

Grigory Ushaev was born in 1922 and belongs to the generation of people who survived the horrors of the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945. In 1952 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Architecture. Grigory Ushaev is well-known as an architect and designer of many public and industrial buildings in Moscow, Gagarin, Pyatigorsk, Odessa, Postov-on-the Don, Novocherkassk, Severomorsk, Balakovo, Novgorod, Omsk, Samarkand, Tyumen, Leipzig, Katowice and other cities. He also created monumental and decorative compositions, as well as designs for exhibition and museum displays. Implementing the synthesis of architecture with other kinds of art Grigory Ushaev has been working in partnership with artists of various art directions. He is a member of the Moscow Union of Architects (1956), member of the Moscow Union of Artists (1975).

Grigory Ushaev is also keen on painting and drawing especially on the genre of caricature. On display at the Russian Academy of Arts of special interest are his color, as well as black and white caricatures precisely depicting the character of his models, these are historical personalities – Alexander Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Sergey Yesenin, Anna Akhmatova and our contemporaries – Marc Zakharov, Leonid Yakubovicn, Oleg Tabakov, Yury Lyubimov, etc. Grigory Ushaev is a holder of the silver and gold medal of the Russian Academy of Arts.

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