Yan Lelchuk
Born in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) in 1974.
Graduated in 1994 from the Shadr Art College in Sverdlovsk (painting and teacher-training department). In 2000 he graduated from the painting faculty of the Russian Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg (restoration department, headed by Mikhail Deviatov). His course of study included work experience in the Russian Museum, the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts and the Hermitage.
An artist-restorer, painter and graphic artist, Lelchuk works in various genres of the fine arts. He has exhibited since 1995, participating in regional and republic-level events, as well as some abroad. He has had several personal exhibitions in Yekaterinburg. He became a member of the Artists’ Union of Russia in 2001. He oversaw the artistic decoration of the building of the government of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, the painting of murals in churches in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Region. In 2009, he was in charge of the artistic restoration work to reconstruct the ceiling painting in the Gonzago Gallery at the Pavlovsk Museum-Reserve and participated directly in it.
Since 2005 he has worked as the head of a laboratory at the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design (faculty of monumental decorative art, department of painting and restoration). He has also lectured in Finland – at the Repin-instituutti, the Kymenlaakso University of Applied Science and the University of Lapland.
Lelchuk is a keen student of the military history of Russia and Spain in the 20th century and a member of the Saint Petersburg-based Svyazist military-historical club. His artistic credo is “Do every work as if it were your last.”
His works can be found in the State Hermitage and in private collections in Russia and Europe.
Graduated in 1994 from the Shadr Art College in Sverdlovsk (painting and teacher-training department). In 2000 he graduated from the painting faculty of the Russian Academy of Arts in Saint Petersburg (restoration department, headed by Mikhail Deviatov). His course of study included work experience in the Russian Museum, the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts and the Hermitage.
An artist-restorer, painter and graphic artist, Lelchuk works in various genres of the fine arts. He has exhibited since 1995, participating in regional and republic-level events, as well as some abroad. He has had several personal exhibitions in Yekaterinburg. He became a member of the Artists’ Union of Russia in 2001. He oversaw the artistic decoration of the building of the government of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, the painting of murals in churches in Saint Petersburg and Leningrad Region. In 2009, he was in charge of the artistic restoration work to reconstruct the ceiling painting in the Gonzago Gallery at the Pavlovsk Museum-Reserve and participated directly in it.
Since 2005 he has worked as the head of a laboratory at the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design (faculty of monumental decorative art, department of painting and restoration). He has also lectured in Finland – at the Repin-instituutti, the Kymenlaakso University of Applied Science and the University of Lapland.
Lelchuk is a keen student of the military history of Russia and Spain in the 20th century and a member of the Saint Petersburg-based Svyazist military-historical club. His artistic credo is “Do every work as if it were your last.”
His works can be found in the State Hermitage and in private collections in Russia and Europe.