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Andrey Zakirzyanov

Born in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukrainian SSR (part of USSR in 1969), Andrey grew up in a small city near Leningrad. He Studied arts at the Leningrad V.A. Serov Art school and Russian Academy of Arts, during the Soviet Era of Stagnation and Perestroika.

After the collapse of the USSR, Andrey began his professional career and commercial activity as a teacher and nonconformist artist and designer.

As an artist-in-residence at the famous nonconformist Art-Centre "Pushkinskaya -10", he organised and participated in solo and group exhibitions in Russia and abroad (including Alexey Navalny's "Anti-Putin video challenge", and further on as a personal reaction to the political situation in Russia with PussyRiot etc).

In 2014 after Crimea's annexation (and war began), Andrey left Russia, and has since lived and worked in Prague, as motion, graphic designer, and political satire cartoonist for the RFERL's Currenttime.tv. His political cartoons went viral in Russia, Ukraine, and post-soviet territories, and in 2015 he received the Communicator Award of Distinction for his video animation work titled “And Now We Win”, chronicling Russian President Vladimir Putin’s launch of “Novorossiya” (an expansionist campaign for Russia). After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Andrey stopped spending time on political satire, deeming it “useless at that point in time”. Some of Andrey’s graphic works reside in the Russian Art & Soviet Nonconformist Art gallery at the US Zimmerli Art Museum to this day.

Andrey Zakirzyanov

Born in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukrainian SSR (part of USSR in 1969), Andrey grew up in a small city near Leningrad. He Studied arts at the Leningrad V.A. Serov Art school and Russian Academy of Arts, during the Soviet Era of Stagnation and Perestroika.

After the collapse of the USSR, Andrey began his professional career and commercial activity as a teacher and nonconformist artist and designer.

As an artist-in-residence at the famous nonconformist Art-Centre "Pushkinskaya -10", he organised and participated in solo and group exhibitions in Russia and abroad (including Alexey Navalny's "Anti-Putin video challenge", and further on as a personal reaction to the political situation in Russia with PussyRiot etc).

In 2014 after Crimea's annexation (and war began), Andrey left Russia, and has since lived and worked in Prague, as motion, graphic designer, and political satire cartoonist for the RFERL's Currenttime.tv. His political cartoons went viral in Russia, Ukraine, and post-soviet territories, and in 2015 he received the Communicator Award of Distinction for his video animation work titled “And Now We Win”, chronicling Russian President Vladimir Putin’s launch of “Novorossiya” (an expansionist campaign for Russia). After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Andrey stopped spending time on political satire, deeming it “useless at that point in time”. Some of Andrey’s graphic works reside in the Russian Art & Soviet Nonconformist Art gallery at the US Zimmerli Art Museum to this day.

Andrey Zakirzyanov

Born in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukrainian SSR (part of USSR in 1969), Andrey grew up in a small city near Leningrad. He Studied arts at the Leningrad V.A. Serov Art school and Russian Academy of Arts, during the Soviet Era of Stagnation and Perestroika.

After the collapse of the USSR, Andrey began his professional career and commercial activity as a teacher and nonconformist artist and designer.

As an artist-in-residence at the famous nonconformist Art-Centre "Pushkinskaya -10", he organised and participated in solo and group exhibitions in Russia and abroad (including Alexey Navalny's "Anti-Putin video challenge", and further on as a personal reaction to the political situation in Russia with PussyRiot etc).

In 2014 after Crimea's annexation (and war began), Andrey left Russia, and has since lived and worked in Prague, as motion, graphic designer, and political satire cartoonist for the RFERL's Currenttime.tv. His political cartoons went viral in Russia, Ukraine, and post-soviet territories, and in 2015 he received the Communicator Award of Distinction for his video animation work titled “And Now We Win”, chronicling Russian President Vladimir Putin’s launch of “Novorossiya” (an expansionist campaign for Russia). After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Andrey stopped spending time on political satire, deeming it “useless at that point in time”. Some of Andrey’s graphic works reside in the Russian Art & Soviet Nonconformist Art gallery at the US Zimmerli Art Museum to this day.

Andrey Zakirzyanov

Born in Simferopol, Crimea, Ukrainian SSR (part of USSR in 1969), Andrey grew up in a small city near Leningrad. He Studied arts at the Leningrad V.A. Serov Art school and Russian Academy of Arts, during the Soviet Era of Stagnation and Perestroika.

After the collapse of the USSR, Andrey began his professional career and commercial activity as a teacher and nonconformist artist and designer.

As an artist-in-residence at the famous nonconformist Art-Centre "Pushkinskaya -10", he organised and participated in solo and group exhibitions in Russia and abroad (including Alexey Navalny's "Anti-Putin video challenge", and further on as a personal reaction to the political situation in Russia with PussyRiot etc).

In 2014 after Crimea's annexation (and war began), Andrey left Russia, and has since lived and worked in Prague, as motion, graphic designer, and political satire cartoonist for the RFERL's Currenttime.tv. His political cartoons went viral in Russia, Ukraine, and post-soviet territories, and in 2015 he received the Communicator Award of Distinction for his video animation work titled “And Now We Win”, chronicling Russian President Vladimir Putin’s launch of “Novorossiya” (an expansionist campaign for Russia). After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Andrey stopped spending time on political satire, deeming it “useless at that point in time”. Some of Andrey’s graphic works reside in the Russian Art & Soviet Nonconformist Art gallery at the US Zimmerli Art Museum to this day.