Аbout the artist

Chermen Gougkaev (b.1988) is a member of the Artists' Union of Russia.

Chermen has graduated from the St. Petersburg State Repin Academy of Fine Arts and the workshop of monumental painting led by the People's Artist of Russia, Prof. Alexander Bystrov, a full member of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts.

He has been honing his skills at the creative workshop of monumental painting of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts led by the Academician of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts Vera Mylnikova, an Honored Artist of Russia.

His awards:

- medal of the President of the Republic of South Ossetia;

- diplomas of the Artists' Union of Russia (2017, 2021);

- gold of the Artists' Union of Russia;

- silver medal of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts;

- winner of the Prize-Competition Art-Start "Best Young Artists. Prize of St. Petersburg" at St. Petersburg in the nominations of painting and art objects (2019);

- 1st degree diploma of the St. Petersburg International exhibition-competition - 2021, in the "Painting. The Subject composition" nomination (for his work Music, 2020);

- winner of the North Ossetia Republican exhibition-competition, 2018;

- the Russian Academy of Arts solemn thanks.

Exhibitions:

Since 2012 – a regular participant of exhibitions of the Artists' Union of Russia and the Artists' Union St. Petersburg;

2015 - Moscow exhibition of the winners of the "New Space" Young Artists Competition;

2016 - diploma in the "Painting" nomination of the "Liner" All-Russia Youth Mobile Exhibition.

Since 2017

- participant of the "Ossetian palette on the banks of the Neva river " annual exhibitions, St. Petersburg;

- participant of the Ilya Repin Academy of Arts tutors exhibition, St. Petersburg;

2018 – the South Ossetia Republican exhibition-competition;

2019 – the XXIII “The Salt Town – City of Masters” International Festival of Decorative and Applied Arts, Saint Petersburg;

2020 – the “Art-Start Best Young Artists. Prize of St. Petersburg" Competition, St. Petersburg;

2020 – "Alania – Images of the Past" International fine arts exhibition-competition in Vladikavkaz;

2021 - "Russian archetype" exhibition, dedicated to the 800th anniversary of Alexander Nevsky’s birth, Saint Petersburg;

2021 - Art-Start "Best Young Artists. Prize of St. Petersburg" Prize-Competition at St. Petersburg, the "Hermitage Vyborg" exhibition center;

2021 - "War and Peace" exhibition, Artists' Union of Russia, St. Petersburg;

2021 - "War and Peace" exhibition, the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, Moscow;

2021 - "War and Peace" exhibition, Yekaterinburg.

2021 - "Unique intonation", at the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, Moscow;

2022 - "The Warrior's Path", Victory Museum, Moscow.

Chermen has been repeatedly presented in the exhibition halls of the Artists' Union of Russia, the New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

He has been a regular participant of the Annual Russian Academic en Plein Air Painting Exhibitions.