Zakhar Kolovsky
Russian · b. 1956
photography
DESCRIPTION
Zakhar Kolovsky graduated from the Leningrad Polytechnic Institute in 1984 and later from the Art History faculty of the St. Petersburg Institute in 2000. In 1996, he became Director of the Contemporary Art Project Curators School in St. Petersburg, and in 1998, he co-founded the Baltic Photography School. Appointed Director of the State Russian Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSPHOTO in 2002, his photographic works and series—such as 'Windows', 'Electorate', and 'Naval Architecture'—have been widely exhibited and acquired by institutions including the State Russian Museum and the Latvian National Museum of Art.