Zorikto Dorzhiev

ZORKITO DORZHIEV

Zorikto Dorzhiev has emerged as one of Russia's most acclaimed young artists, with his work exhibited in 2008 at the Council of Europe and the Beijing Olympics, and his recent series Steppe Story shown for two months at St Petersburg's Russian Museum in 2009.

With precise draughtsmanship and vivd colour, Zorikto displays subtle humour and a gift for caricature. Nomadic Buryat life is his main subject.

To Zorikto, “a nomad is an artist, a poet, a philosopher, and often a loner.” He is equally at home portraying sensuous females – his iconic Mona Lisa Khatun has been dubbed the “Madonna of the Steppes” – or warriors on horseback, evoking Buryats' Mongol ancestors.

Zorikto worked as a set-designer for Sergei Bodrov’s blockbuster movie Mongol, and illustrated Isay Kalashnikov's The cruel Age; he also designs traditional-style Buryat head-dresses.

Coast 110 Housekeeper x 160 cm A Startler For The Careful Oil on canvas 81.5 x 92 cm Oil on linen

Girl with the Coral Earring 60 x 55 cm Acrylic on canvas

Dreamer 17 x 13 x 10 cm Bronze

Heap A Shocker For The Careful Housekeeper 104 x 150 cm 80.5 x 90 cm Oil on canvas Oil on linen

April 150 x 90 cm Oil on canvas

Tuesday 71 x 23 x 15 cm Bronze

Twins 95 x 80 cm Oil on canvas

She-Stranger 130 x 209 cm Oil on canvas

Beginning 100 x 71 cm Pencil, coal on paper

Battle 100 x 71 cm Pencil, coal on paper

Nirvana 200 x 200 cm Acrylic, foil, patina on canvas

Dormant 102 x 74 cm Pencil, coal on paper

Not Forgiven 130 x 170 cm Oil on canvas

Selected Exhibitions 2011 2010 2010 2010 2009 2009 2009 2008 2008 2008 2008 2008 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2007 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2006 2005 2004

Steppe Story. Solo-show at Neum端nster Abbey. Luxemburg The Central House of Artists, Hall 5, Khankhalaev Gallery.

A Year in the Life of A Painter. Solo show at the gallery "DIAS"(Irkutsk, Russia) A Year in the Life of A Painter. Solo show at the Buryatia Repablican Art Museum Red Dot Miami, Steppe Story. Solo-show at the Russian State Museum, St.Petersburg Steppe Story. Solo-show at Tibet House, New York, USA Solo show at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, Luxemburg and Brussels XXIX Olympic games, Beijing Steppe Story. Solo-show at the Regional Art Museum, Tomsk Moscow World Fine Art Fair Art Expo, New York Steppe Story. Solo-show at the Vladimir Sukachev Art Museum, Irkutsk Art Manege, Moscow Moscow World Fine Art Fair Solo show at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg and Brussels Art Taibei, Taiwan Art Expo, New York Art Miami, USA Art Manege, Moscow Mongolian Embassy in Moscow. 12.2006 Central House of Artists, Khankhalaev Gallery, Moscow Beverly Hills Classic: Antiques & Fine Art & Jewelry Show, LA Art Taipei, Taiwan Art Miami, USA Art Manege, Moscow Solo show at the Museum of the Buryat History, Ulan-Ude

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