Sergei Rozhnov is a Russian contemporary artist. He completed and specialised in Monument Painting at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg named after I.E. Repin, and graduated with honours. His background allows him to develop his unique practice that emerges the classical technique with academic knowledge into his contemporary art practice. Rozhnov is a member in Russian Union of Artists in 2011; and a member of Monumental Painting Bureau at St. Petersburg in 2014. His work has been exhibited in various venues, Ærø Kunsthal, Californian Museum of Fine Arts and Yantai Art Museum, etc.
Rozhnov grew up playing volleyball in a semi-professional team where he has always juxtaposing in art and sport. This child/teen-hood experience triggered his initial inspiration to intertwin art and sport in his creative process. In the search of colours and energetic images, Rozhnov fabricates the Evolution series — It is a worldwide documentary of both amateur and professional athletes. Rozhnov wants to reveal the character of the players through their physical intensity and psychological emotion during the action. He believes sport truly expresses the beauty and power of human being. He transforms this observation into artistic energy on his canvas and fully presents this irresistible mechanism.
