Artem Mirelovich
American Landmark: Artist in Residence Finalist, 2020
Grant Recipient: AIR at Midtown 24 September 2020 - May 2021
Artem Mirelovich is a New York artist, born in Belarus, former USSR. With Bachelor’s degree in fine art and illustration, given with honors from School of Visual Arts in 1999. He has had close to 150 solo and group exhibitions world wide, including museum and art foundation shows, grants, awards and art residences. Last year I held a shows in Osaka(Japan), Maritime Museum it Split (Croatia), Venice Biennalle(Italy), Scope art fair (New York, Miami), Doha(Quatar). He’s a founder and curator of Russian Pavilion and Art Cosmos.
Artem is trained as an illustrator, and his high skill for extreme detail is present in all his works, whether etchings or oils on canvas. Each work is a tale of its own, a surrealist tale of otherworldly places and people, where the artist’s imagination is completely set free. Directly drawing inspiration from Durer to Dali to the Manga comic tradition, Mirolevich’s work is a portal to the mystical meta-civilization, where doom and hope co-exist. The artist is not afraid to make political statements on global warming, war, immigration or decadence of consumerist society, thus offering more layers that the eye can examine in his very richly worked compositions.
Artem Mirolevich was born in 1976, in the city of Minsk, Belarus. At the age of 17, he moved to the USA and soon after enrolled in the School of Visual Art, New York City. He was granted a full scholarship from the Department of Illustration and also spent a semester at Amsterdam's Rietvield Art Academy as an exchange student. New York and Amsterdam's cultural and architectural landscape inspired Artem to produce many works of art, including images of a post-apocalyptic city submerged deep under water. Invigorated by his experience abroad, he was drawn to the idea of exploring other countries of the world.
“Being an artist and an art curator I’m always eager and pleased to engage my immediate surroundings and happy to introduce the world of art to local residents.
I’m planning on doing a weekly open studio tours, visitors are encouraged to ask questions about the progress of on going art projects, learn about the techniques and how to apply it in their own work.
I’m planning to do art classes , for adults and children. Adult classes might feature a professional model and a glass of wine, “drink and draw” style. It’s something I used to organize professionally for the employees of Artsy.com, including the CEO and COO who lived to participate in sketching. This was done in Artsy’s head office in Manhattan, NY.
Organizing gallery openings , with live poetry, music and art performances. Hopefully all this will be done physically as well as virtually but if no large gatherings are permitted this might be limited to live video performances.”
