Nikolay Bakharev Biography
Exhibitions
Selected Works
Nikolay Bakharev born in 1946 in Mikhailovka village, Siberia (Russia). After his parents death in 1950 grown up in orphanage. Since 1965 was an operator at a Kuznetsk integrated iron and steel works. In 1970 started to work as a photographer for service centre in Novokuznetsk (Kemerovo Region). Since 1975 worked for Novokuznetsk Art foundation. Since 1991 is a member of Photographer’s Union of Russia. He participated in a number of exhibitions in Russia and abroad. His works are held in numerous private and museum collections.
Lives and works in Moscow and Novokuznetsk.
Solo shows:
2010                           
  • Public and Private. Gallery 'FotoDepartament' along with Gallery 'Photographer.ru'. Moscow, Russia
2008-2009     
  • Public and Private. Gallery 'Photographer.ru'. Moscow, Russia
2003               
  • Bakharevland. REGINA Gallery. Moscow, Russia
  • Bakharev Files. Manege, Moscow, Russia
2001                
  • Russians: Love, Desire & Obsession. 'James' Boutique. Moscow, Russia
1999                           
  • Nikolay Bakharev. Humanitarian and Political Science Centre Strategy. Moscow, Russia
1998               
  • Nikolay Bakharev. International Photo Festival. Plovdiv, Bulgaria
1996               
  •  25 years of Soviet Landscape. Art Museum. Novokuzbetsk, Russia
1991                
  • SovDep. Photocentre. Kemerovo, Russia
  • Nikolay Bakharev. Canon Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1990               
  • SovDep. Exhibition Hall Flora. Omsk, Russia
Group Shows (selection):
2011                
  • Ostalgia. New Museum. New York, USA
2007                
  • Russia Miami 2007. Art Basel Miami Beach. Miami, USA
2006               
  • Beach Photography. White Space Gallery. London, UK
2005                           
  • Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist Eye. Museum of Contemporary Art. Chicago, USA
2004               
  • Fight of Fools. Contemporary Russian Photography, White Space Gallery, London, UK
  • Beach photography. White Space Gallery. London, UK
2002                           
  • Photoplyazh (Russian Championship of Beach Photography). Central Exhibition Hall Manezh. Moscow, Russia
2000               
  • Interrnational Photoshowroom 'Siberia 2000'. Novosibirsk, Russia
1996-1997      
  • Russia: Chronicles of Change. Southeast Museum of Photography. Daytona Beach, Florida, USA
1996                           
  • Emerging Images: Сontemporary Photography in Russia and Eurasia. Harry Ransom. Southeast Museum of Photography. Daytona Beach, USA.
  • Research Center. University of Texas in Austin. Austin, Texas, USA
1995               
  • New Photo Art from Russia. Karlsruhe, Frankfurt, Hannover, Dusseldorf, Erten, Germany
1994               
  • Art of Modern Photography. Russia, Ukraine, Belorus. CHA. Moscow, Russia
1993               
  • 2nd Exhibition of Russian Photographers Union. Moscow, Russia
  • Russian Art Photography Today. International Russian-American project involving five artists. Rutgers University. New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
1991                
  • 1st Exhibtion of Russian Photographers Union. Smolensk, Russia
  • Retort. Shkola Gallery. Moscow, Russia
1989               
  • 150 Years of Photography. Central Exhibition Hall Manezh. Moscow Russia
  • Analytical Photography. IV Bienal. Yoshkar-Ola, Russia
1987                           
  • All-Union Photo Exhibition (dedicated to the 70 anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution.) Moscow, Russia
1972                
Svema-72. All-Union Photo Exhibition. Shostka, Ukraine
Public collections:
Moscow House of Photography. Moscow, Russia
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA
Southeast Museum of Photography. Daytona Beach, Florida, USA