Viacheslav Vorontsov (1987, USSR). Lives and works in Paris.

Born in 1987 in the village of Tazovsky, above the Arctic Circle, in the Tyumen region of the USSR. He grew up in a family of artists, he is the great-grandson of the Russian realist painter Vasily Vereshchagin.

After years of studying at an art school of painting he specialized in street art graffiti and tattooing, then turns to the creation of fashion clothing, design and album covers. He directs and produces music videos. He releases 15 solo hip-hop albums and 20 video clips.

Forced to leave Russia, he arrived in France in 2023, and focuses on painting. He works on large formats, developing a style that is at once naive, figurative and abstract.

His work is inspired by anthropology, neurobiology philosophy, religious subjects, summoning the themes of war and peace, as well as emigration as a refugee. He integrates symbols of rock culture such as fairy tale mythological characters that he mixes with tattoo motifs.

His references from anthropology and theology are superimposed on images of the unconscious. Viacheslav Vorontsov orchestrates his elements in large-scale works with bright colors, reflecting his different personal and heterogeneous universes.

Considering himself as an art-brut he emerges his vision through contemporary paintings expressing pure, pristine emotionality and an intuitive approach.

In 2024, he entered the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris in the Hérodote program.

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