Evgeniy Monahov

Do butterflies live in winter? (sketch for the painting of the same name)

2016

Evgeniy Monahov was born in 1974 in Moscow, in the family of a naval officer and engineer, none of his relatives or ancestors had any contact with art. Nevertheless, at a fairly early age, he began to show interest in art. Evgeniy Monahov graduated from the Moscow Academic Art College in 1996 and the Surikov Art Institute in 2002.​ In 2003, International Artist Magazine published an article about him which attracted the attention of several galleries from around the world. In 2004 he received an offer to take part in a large cultural event entitled "Russian Summer in Santa Fe" at Andreeva Gallery, which was accompanied by numerous publications of his paintings and interviews in the local press. In 2005 he opened with his first solo show "Scenes of the Southwest" in this same gallery. In parallel, he began to cooperate with the French gallery "Galleries Bartoux", exhibiting from the Champs Elysees in Paris to New York.​ In 2012, a large interview with him was published by the Russian magazine "Eclectic" and he held two large solo exhibitions in the Moscow gallery G8 - "Playing with Light" in 2012 and "Pieces of Life" in 2013. Also notable was the repeated participation in the exhibitions "ModPortrait" in the museums in Zaragoza and Barcelona in 2017, 2019, 2020 and 2021, exhibitions "Figurativas" in the museum MEAM in Barcelona in 2019, 2021 and 2023 and the exhibition "Spark" in China in 2018. In 2021 his work “Girl with a Gun” won the Bouguereau Award and a Purchase Award in the 15th International ARC Salon Competition. In addition, “Girl with a Gun”, was illustrated in the Lunar Codex, a cultural archive of contemporary works, launching on the Nova-C Lunar Lander to the Moon, to be preserved for posterity. His painting of “Pasion for Color” won Best Nude in the 15th International ARC Salon Competition and his work of “Windmills of Your Mind” won a Dual category award and an ARC Purchase Award as well. In July 2021 at hosted by Sotheby's auction Contemporary Realism: Important 21st Century Works his painting "Passion for Color" was sold for $38,000, more than doubling the maximum estimated price. Evgeniy Monahov has become recognized by the Art Renewal Center as an ARC Living Master, (ARCLM). His paintings are found in private and corporative collections around the globe, including: USA, the European Union, Russia, China, Japan, South Korea, Brazil, Argentina, Indonesia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates among many, many others.