Soviet nonconformist art was Soviet art produced in the former Soviet Union outside the control of the Soviet state started in the Stalinist era, in particular, outside of the rubric of Socialist Realism. Other terms used to refer to this phenomenon are Soviet counterculture, "underground art" or "unofficial art".
Norton Townshend Dodge was an American economist and educator who amassed one of the largest collections of Soviet-era art outside the Soviet Union.
Oleg Vassiliev was a Russian painter associated with the Soviet Nonconformist Art style. Vassiliev emigrated to the United States, arriving in New York City in 1990 and later lived and worked in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Erik Bulatov is a Russian artist, who was raised in Moscow. His father was a communist party official who died in World War II at Pskov, and his mother fled Poland at age 15 in support of the Russian Revolution. Bulatov's works are in the major public and private collections in Europe, Russia, and United States. In 2008 Bulatov became an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts. In 2015 Bulatov was made the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
Lucien Dulfan is a Soviet-born conceptualist artist, resident in the United States since 1990. During his career in the USSR, he was considered a Nonconformist artist.
Lidiya Masterkova, also Lydia Masterkova, was a Soviet-born French painter, and part of the non-conformist Lianozovo Group along with Oscar Rabin. She was strongly influenced by Abstract Expressionism, which she was exposed to at the exhibition of foreign artists held during the World Festival of Youth and Students in Moscow (1957).
Vladimir Nikolaevich Nemukhin was a Russian artist. Nemukhin was associated with the 'Lianozovo Group' along with Oscar Rabin, Valentina Kropivnitskaya (1924-2008) and Lidiya Masterkova.
Vagrich (Vahrij) Hakobi (Akopovich) Bakhchanyan was a Ukrainian graphic artist and designer of Armenian heritage. He was a Soviet nonconformist and Ukrainian underground artist, and conceptual writer and poet working in the Russian language.
Ely Bielutin – was a Russian visual artist and art theoretician, the founder of The New Reality artistic academy.
The Kolodzei Art Foundation, Inc. promotes the contemporary art of Russia and Eastern Europe. The Kolodzei Art Foundation often utilizes the artistic resources of the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, one of the world's largest private collections, with over 7,000 artworks by over 300 artists from Russia, Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Igor Tulipanov is a Russian-American painter originally from St. Petersburg, Russia. Tulipanov employs Surrealist imagery in his paintings, incorporating stylistic elements deriving from Leonardo da Vinci, Hieronymus Bosch, and Jan van Eyck.
Boris Petrovich Sveshnikov (1927–1998) was a Russian nonconformist painter. On February 9, 1946, Sveshnikov, then a nineteen-year-old art school student at the Moscow Institute of Applied and Decorative Arts, went to buy kerosene in a nearby shop. On the way, he was arrested for participating in a terrorist group preparing an assassination attempt on Josef Stalin. One of the participants in this fabricated MGB accusation was the artist Lev Kropyvnytsky, with whom Sveshnikov studied at the institute. Before his so-called trial, Sveshnikov spent a year in prison. Subjected to endless night interrogations, trips from the basements of Lubyanka to Lefortovo Prison and back, sleep deprivation, and jail overcrowding, inevitably brought Sveshnikov to the brink of physical and nervous exhaustion. After a year, he was sentenced to eight-years in maximum security labor camps.
Dmitri Plavinsky was a Russian-American artist.
Georgy Kiesewalter is a Russian conceptual artist, photographer and essayist, working in different artistic areas from painting to graphic art, from installations to conceptual photography and digital art.
Irina Isayevna Nakhova is a Russian artist. Her father, Isai Nakhov, is a philologist. At 14 years old her mother took her to Victor Pivovarov's Atelier. Pivovarov played an important role in her life and later became her mentor. In 2015, Nakhova became the first female artist to represent Russia in its pavilion at the Venice Biennial. She is represented by Nailya Alexander Gallery in New York City. Nakhova currently lives and works in Moscow and New Jersey. She works with different mediums like fine art, photography, sounds, sensors and inflatable materials. She is a Laureate of the Kandinsky 2013 Award.
Young Gardeners is an oil painting by Malle Leis in the Tartu Art Museum.
Eye in the Egg is a 1962 oil on paper painting by the Estonian artist Ülo Sooster in the Tartu Art Museum.
Bagrat Grigorian was an Armenian painter.
Gregory Perkel is a Ukrainian-born American conceptual artist. Perkel was born May 3, 1939, in Vinnytsa (Ukraine) in what was then the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. After the end of World War II, he and his family moved to Moscow in 1946, and he graduated from the Fine Art and Graphic Department of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute in 1964. In 1977, he emigrated to the United States along with his wife Natasha Perkel and his daughter. Perkel lives and works in New Jersey.
Alexander Mrevlishvili (1866–1933) was a Georgian artist who exemplified the realistic style during the transition to the 20th century." He is also seen as a representative of Georgian avant-gardism.
