Maxim Kantor

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Maxim Karlovich Kantor (Russian: Макси́м Ка́рлович Ка́нтор) is a Russian painter who recently wrote a controversial book called "The Drawing Textbook."

Born in December 1957, Moscow.

1975 — entered Moscow Art Polygraph Institute; graduated in 1980.
1979-1980 — studio in Saveljevskij street, 8.
Since 1980 — studio in Triokhprudny Street.
1983 — organised the independent group of painters that was later called "Krasny Dom" ("Red House"). The group made a number of unofficial, one-day exhibitions, the most famous took place at the Institute of Philosophy, Moscow, 1984.
Since 1984 — participates in many non-permitted exhibitions of the Moscow "underground".
1987 — first exhibitions abroad at Studio Marconi, Milan and Eva Poll Gallery, Berlin. Invited to Germany by Henri Nannen for the first personal exhibition. Since then works in Western Europe, the United States and Moscow. Temporary workshops in Dusseldorf (1988), Frankfurt (1989), Boston (1990), Berlin (1990-92), Hannover (1992). Since 1997 - permanent workshops in Moscow and London.
1993 — published his first collection of short stories "House in the Wasteland".
1995-96 — retrospective exhibitions in Luxembourg, Berlin and Moscow.
1997 — solo exhibition "Criminal chronicle" in the Russian Pavilion at the XLVII Biennale, Venice.
1997-1998 — the exhibition tour started at the State Pushkin Museum, afterwards presented in Staedel Museum, Frankfurt; Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida; Musee d'Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg; Crossman Galery UW-Whitewater (Wisconsin).
1999-2000 — in Artichoke print-studio in London worked upon the series of 70 etchings "Letters from Karakorum", which finally was entitled "WASTELAND. The Atlas": prints and philosophical essays. The book is followed with the exhibition tour in Russia (State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow; State Primorsky Museum of Art, Vladivostok; Krasnoyarsk Culture and History Museum Complex; Novosibirsk Museum of Fine Art; Tomsk Art Museum; Ekaterinbourg Museum of Fine Art) and "WASTELAND. The Atlas" in the museums all over the world, among them: Staedel Museum, Frankfurt; Culturgest, Lisbon; Ulster Museum, Belfast; South Australian Gallery, Adelaida
2001-2003 — worked on the book "METROPOLIS.The Atlas": prints and philosophic essays.
2004-2007 — European tour of exhibition"New Empire": new pictures and graphic cycle of "METROPOLIS.Atlas" in Felix Nussbaum Haus, Osnabruck; Querini Stampalia Fondazione, Venice; Ulster Museum, Belfast; Akademie der Kunste, Berlin; Museum Kuppersmuhle, Duisburg; Centre Culturel de Rencontre, Abbaye de Neumunster, Luxembourg
2006 — publishes his novel "DRAWING TEXTBOOK" (in two vol., in Russian) - Moscow, OGI publishing house.