Evgeny Chubarov (1934, Nizhnee Bobino, Bashkortostan, USSR — 2012, Mytishchi, Moscow Region, Russia) was a painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and a winner of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant.

By interpreting the style of the Russian parsunain his own unique way, Chubarov brought  to life the philosophical ideas of a new era on his canvases, visually capturing the energy of the world surrounding him. Chubarov saw himself as an heir to Russian "archaic" culture, drawing a parallel between his technique and the ideas behind Malevich’s Black Square: 
“In my plastic arts, I intuitively search for the proportions of relations between black and white that are inherent in the Black Square, as well as the ratios of surface curvature and absolute whiteness, the suspension of structures, the obscurations and sudden breakthroughs of white through the quiver of black and colored matter.”

His abstract compositions represent borderline states, duality, a return to the origins of form, conflict and harmony, the masculine and the feminine principle. They evoke the themes of death and birth, the fusion of the image of human flesh with the objects of an unexplored inner space, revealing a vision of new laws — the interconnection between the anatomy of the world and the human body, the basics of the energetic field within it.

In his art, Chubarov foresaw the rebirth of familiar gestural abstraction into a new intellectual form — one endowed with its own discovered alphabet, language, and dramaturgy, where image and the concept of its embodiment become a single whole. The ribbon-like signs in his works resemble vectors of energy waves, final touches in the philosophy of Picasso and Russian avant-garde, in other words, of art grounded in tradition but responsive to the ever-increasing layers of reality. “Art that lies on the surface is capable of making mistakes.”  The distinctiveness of Chubarov’s work lies in his striving to turn the viewer’s gaze inward — toward the pure nature of one’s own consciousness, toward the self, which lies at the foundation of human psyche. An internal dialogue and vivid expression, contrast of tones as well as strict discipline or execution techniques — these are qualities that define Chubarov’s work at every stage of it, forming an invaluable contribution to the development of art and making him a phenomenon of the modern era.

Chubarov’s monumental works have been exhibited at major venues across Europe, the United States, and Russia. At group exhibitions, his works have been displayed alongside those of 20th-century masters such as Mel Bochner, Frank Stella, Sol LeWitt, Damien Hirst, Peter Halley, and Stephan Balkenhol. In 2013, following the artist’s death, the Evgeny Chubarov Foundation was established.


Solo Exhibitions:

2016 — Berlin Works — Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany
2015 — Solo Show — Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2014 — Exhibition for the Artist’s 80th Anniversary — National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
2013 — The Transparent Fabric of Existence — Open Club, Moscow, Russia
2007 — Solo Show — Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2007 — That Very Chubarov — S’ART Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2004 — Return to the Non-Objective. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2004 — Return to Non-Objectivity. National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
2003 — Evgeny Chubarov — Gary Tatintsian Gallery, New York, USA
2001 — Evgeny Chubarov — Gary Tatintsian Gallery, New York, USA
1998 — Victims of Stalinism — Open-Air Museum, Sakharov Centre, Moscow, Russia
1996 — Solo Show —Andreas Weiss Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1993 — 1st Exhibition of Eastern European Art — Hamburg, Germany
1990 — Solo Show — Gallery 4, Berlin, Germany
1989 — Solo Show —Tatuntz Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1988 — Return — House of Sculptor, Moscow, USSR
1987 — Toward the Scythians — “Hermitage” Association, Moscow, USSR


Group Exhibitions:

2025 — Gallerist’s Cabinet — PA Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2024 — 3 x 5 — PA Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2022 — Corpus Mundi — PA Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2009 — Price of Oil — Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2007 — Create Your Own Museum — Gary Tatintsian Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2003 — Kazimir Malevich’s Birthday — DOM Centre, Moscow, Russia
2002 — Replicas — DOM Centre, Moscow, Russia
1999 — Sol LeWitt, Mel Bochner, Evgeny Chubarov — Gary Tatintsian Gallery, New York, USA
1998 — Bayer Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
1989 — Paradoxes of the Material — A3 Gallery, Moscow, USSR
1989 — USSR Dialogue: Russians and Modernity — Boris Vian Centre, France
1988 — The Painting as Object — House of Artists, Moscow, USSR
1987 — The Artist and Modernity — Exhibition Hall on Kashirskoye Highway, Moscow, USSR
1986 — Festival of Culture — Exhibition Hall on Kashirskoye Highway, Moscow, USSR
1985 — Mythology of the Surrounding Space — Exhibition Hall on Kashirskoye Highway, Moscow, USSR
1962 — Exhibition of Young Artists — Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, USSR