Vitaly Bubentsov

• Name — Vitaliy Bubentsov • Birth Name — Vitaliy Nikolayevich Bubentsov • Born — 12 February 1944 • Birthplace — Murmansk, Soviet Union • Field — Painting, Drawing • Training — Leningrad Serov Art School (1963), Leningrad Repin Academy of Arts (1972) • Movement — Realism

He was born in 1944 in Murmansk. Since 1969 he has been regularly participating in All-Union, republican, district and regional art exhibitions. He is a participant of foreign exhibitions in Finland, Norway, Sweden, the United States, Denmark, the Netherlands. He lives and works in Murmansk.

Has left Leningrad Serov Art School in 1963 and Leningrad Repin Academy of Arts in 1972.

• 1978 — Solo exhibition (Murmansk, Russia), solo exhibition (Rovaniemi, Finland) • 1986 — Solo exhibition (Lulea, Sweden) • 1990 — Solo exhibition (Murmansk, Russia) • 1991 — Solo exhibition (Ide Gallery, the Netherlands) • 1993 — Solo exhibition (Rovaniemi, Finland) • 1994 — Solo exhibition (the Netherlands) • 1996 — Solo exhibition (Murmansk, Russia), solo exhibition (Pskov, Russia) • 1997 — Solo exhibition (Murmansk, Russia) • 1998 — Solo exhibition (Murmansk, Russia) • 2001 — Solo exhibition (Murmansk, Russia) • 2004 — Solo exhibition (the International Artists Studio in Vadsyo, Norway), solo anniversary exhibition (Murmansk, Russia) • 2005 — Solo exhibition (Murmansk, Russia) • 2008 — Solo exhibition «Vitaliy Bubentsov in Groningen» (Museum on Shipping History in Groningen, the Netherlands)

• 1972 — Republican exhibition «Around the Native Country» (Moscow, Russia) • 1974 — The 4th zonal exhibition «The Soviet North» (Vologda, Russia) • 1977 — «The Youth of Russia» (Moscow, Russia), «The Artists of Russia to Fishermen» (Astrakhan - Kaliningrad – Murmansk – Moscow), All-Union exhibition «The Youth of the Country » (Moscow, Russia), All-Union exhibition of monumental art (Kazan, Russia), group ex hibition of works of participants of All-Union creative team of marine painters (Arkhangelsk, Russia) • 1978 — All-Union exhibition «The Native Country » (Minsk, Belarus), All-Union water color exhibition (Moscow, Russia) • 1979 — The 5th zonal exhibition «The Soviet North» (Syktyvkar, Russia), All-Union exhibition «Blue Roads of the Motherland» (Moscow, Russia) • 1980 — Republican exhibition «The Nature and We» (Moscow – Leningrad - Murmansk) • 1981 — «Around the Native Country» (Moscow, Russia), the 7th All-Union water color exhibition (Moscow, Russia) • 1983 — The 3rd All-Russian exhibition «Drawing and Water Color» (Leningrad, Russia), «Blue Scopes of Russia» (Moscow, Russia) • 1984 — All-Union water color exhibition (Moscow, Russia), the 6th zonal exhibition «The Soviet North» (Novgorod, Russia) • 1985 — «The World was Disputed –We will Save it» (Moscow, Russia), All-Russian exhibition of artists-water-colorists (Moscow, Russia), international exhibition of works of artists of a symposium «Experimental Painting 85» (Lulea, Sweden), foreign exhibition of works of Murmansk artists (Boden, Sweden), «The Kola Earth» (Arkhangelsk, Russia) • 1986 — «Graphics of the Arctic Circle» (Riga, Latvia), «Artists of Murman» (Petrozavodsk, Karelia) • 1987 — The 8th All-Union water color exhibition (Leningrad, Russia), All-Union exhibition «The Artist and the time» (Moscow, Russia) • 1989 — District exhibition «Artists of the North» (Murmansk, Russia), exhibition of works of Murmansk artists (Vadsyo, Norway) • 1991 — Foreign exhibition of works of Murmansk artists (Rovaniemi, Finland) • 1992 — Foreign exhibition of works of Murmansk artists (Galleries "Dowton" and "Kent" in Jacksonville, the USA) • 1993 — Foreign exhibition of works of Murmansk artists (Denmark) • 1997 — District exhibition «The Russian North» (Kirov, Russia), solo exhibition (Murmansk, Russia) • 1998 — The 9th Russian exhibition "Russia" (Moscow, Russia), foreign exhibition of works of Murmansk artists (Groningen, the Netherlands) • 1999 — «A Green noise» (Ples, Russia), «To your Name …» (Moscow, Russia) • 2000 — «The Image of the Native Country» (Kirov, Russia) • 2003 — The 9th district exhibition «The Russian North» • 2004 — Russian exhibition «Russia Х» (Moscow, Russia), the 1st international exhibition of water color "Aquabiennale" (Petrozavodsk, Karelia), «School. Teacher. Art» (Cheboksary, Chuvashiya) • 2005 — International exhibition devoted to the 60th anniversary of the victory (Moscow, Russia), «Artists of Murman» (Vologda, Russia), exhibition of artists of the North-West of Russia "Sports" (Murmansk, Russia) • 2006 — Academic travelling exhibition «The North-West of Russia» (Murmansk-Petrozavodsk-St. Petersburg-Novgorod) • 2007 — «Around the Native Country» (Vologda, Russia), international exhibition "Ljust" (Gallery Bjutenljust, the Netherlands), exhibition of participants of the international plein air «Quiet dawns over Sergilahta» (Karelia) • 2008 — All-Russian art exhibition "Fatherland" devoted to the 50th anniversary of the Artists’ Union of Russia; group exhibition at the international festival in commemoration of Barents (Vardyo, Norway), exhibition of participants of the Russian plein air – 2008 within the limits of the international exhibition "Aquabiennale" (Kizhi, Karelia) • 2009 — "Russia" the 11th Russian art exhibition (Moscow, Russia) • 2010 — International art exhibition "65 Years of the Victory» (Moscow, Russia)

• In 2004 he worked in the International Artists Studio in Vadsyo (Norway) • Now he is teaching in Murmansk Arctic State University. He is an assistant professor of the fine arts department.