ILYA GOLOLOBOV. Artist Ilya Gololobov official website. Contemporary art and commissions


About Me

I am a multidisciplinary designer, art director, and artist.

I trained as a graphic and advertising artist. This background shaped my interest in moving beyond pure form toward a visual language that goes beyond commercial expressiveness.

In my artistic practice, I explore memory and the materiality of the imprint. I am fascinated by how a digital trace can become physical — and how a physical thing can become digital.

I work in a hybrid technique, combining painting, graphics, and printmaking. Using generative algorithms, I fill visual fields with lost or distorted components. My own experience meets the problem of fixation and inevitable distortion. I seek the point where the artist’s gesture meets the randomness of the algorithm.


Medium

The perfection of digital tools becomes a medium where control gives way to the exploration of affective traces. I am drawn to unpredictability: familiar images, integrated into abstraction, transform into dissipative structures. The result cannot be predicted; the work is finished when the balance between chance and control feels right.

An academic background in painting, followed by a break from art for over 20 years, formed the foundation of this approach — not as a rupture, but as a complex evolution. My return to art was a response to pivotal social events, turning my design skills into a tool for creating rhizomatic visual narratives.

My work is not a rejection of the past, but its reinterpretation: a shift from harmony toward a living, unfinished process.

Exhibitions  

2025–2026 Group Exhibition “The Great Disorder”, HSE Art Gallery (Moscow)

2025 Group International Online Exhibition “Symbiotic Drift

2025 Group Exhibition-Study “Portrait of a New Wave Collector”, a—s—t—r—a Gallery (Moscow)

2025 Group International Online Exhibition “Penetration”

2025 Group Graphic Art Exhibition “Imprints”, Sol Gallery (Moscow)

2024 Group International Online Exhibition “I am different”



Education   

1998 — 2000 Creative Workshop of Architect A.O. Vaganov 

1997 — 1999 Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University, Department of Graphic Design 

1991 — 1993 Creative Workshop of V.V. Gololobov 

1989 — 1993 Tver Art College named after A.G. Venetsianov


Design Awards

2024 MediaBrand | Best Program Design | Silver

2023 MediaBrand | Best Program Design | Silver

2022 MediaBrand | Best Program Design | Gold

2019 MediaBrand | Best Branded and Promotional Merchandise | Gold

2018 Promax BDA Global Excellence Promotion Marketing and Design Awards: Total Package Art Direction and design: Channel image, On-Air only | Bronze 

2013 Promax BDA Global Excellence design Awards Image Promo | Gold

2012 Promax BDA Global Excellence design Awards Promo campaign design | Gold

2010 Promax & BDA World Los Angeles. Print. Logo | Silver

2009 Ppomax & BDA World New York. Print. Packaging | Silver

2008 Ppomax & BDA World New York. On-Air Typography | Silver 

2006 Promax & BDA International New York. Print. Packaging | Silver

2005 Promax & BDA International New York.Logo | Gold

2005 Art Directors Club Russia | Gold. Graphic design of Corporate Identity



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