ABOUT IGOR
Igor Galanin was born in 1937 in Moscow, Russia. He was educated and began his artistic career in the former Soviet Union by illustrating children’s books and designing sets for the Moscow Ballet Theatre. Igor exhibited regularly in Moscow and illustrated more than 30 children’s books. His children’s books continue to be published in France and Russia today. In 1972, Igor immigrated first to Rome, Italy, where he had his first international solo show, and subsequently to New York, where he initially continued with illustration work for The Macmillan Company – producing a series of children’s books. In 1975, Igor had a solo exhibit at the Red Barn Gallery on Fisher’s Island, New York and was selected to participate in the Young Artist’s Exhibit in Boston’s Rose Museum. This led to his first New York group show at the Andre Emmerich Gallery, a series of solo exhibits at the Pucker Safrai Gallery in Boston, and to his long association with Jean Aberbach (Aberbach Gallery) and Lindsay Findlay (David Findlay Gallery), in New York. In addition to New York and Boston, Igor has exhibited in Colorado, California, Florida, Texas, Maine, and Montreal, Canada.
Past clients include Roy Scheider, Glenn Close, Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward, Whoopi Goldberg, Mason Phelps, Natalia Makarova, Rudolf Nureyev, and Jim Henson as well as such corporate clients as United Technologies Corporation, the Cincinnatian Hotel in Cincinnati, Ohio, the Doubletree Hotels in New Orleans and the Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska.
Shows and Representation
Harbor Square Gallery | Rockland, ME | 2004–Present
Napua Gallery, Waldorf Astoria | Maui, HI | 2017–Present
Canyon Road Contemporary Art | Santa Fe, NM | 2018–2020
The Christina Gallery | Martha’s Vineyard, MA | 2014–2020
The Jewel Spiegel Gallery | Englewood, NJ | 2013–2019
Ann Jacob Gallery | Highlands, NC | 2011–2016
Amanti Art Gallery | Madison, WI | 2010–2011
JRS Fine Art | Providence, RI | 1986–2016
Gallery 444 | San Francisco, CA | 2000–2007
Harmon Meek Gallery | Naples, FL | 1995–2004
David Findlay Galleries | New York, NY | 1987–1996
Devin Galleries | New Hope, PA | 1993–1995
Brevard Art Museum | Melbourne, FL | 1989
Portals Ltd. | Chicago, IL | 1987–1988
Kieff Galerie d’Art | Montreal, Canada | 1987
Sloane Gallery of Art | Denver, CO | 1986, 1989
Kauffman Galleries | Houston, TX | 1982, 1983, 1984
Aberbach Fine Art | New York, NY | 1978–1986
Pucker Gallery | Boston, MA | 1975, 1976, 1987, 1997, 1990, 2000
London Gallery | Montreal, Canada | 1977
Andre Emmerich | New York, NY | 1976
Rose Art Museum | Boston, MA | 1975
Young Artists ’75 Exhibition | New York, NY | 1975
Village Art Gallery | Croton-on-Hudson, NY | 1974, 1977
Fishers Island Gallery | Fishers Island, NY | 1973–74
Paesi Nuovi Gallery | Rome, Italy | 1972
Recent Book Publications
(in addition to over 30 children’s books published by Malysh publishers in Moscow, Russia)
The Proud Maiden, Tungak and the Sun | Macmillan | New York, NY
Marko the Rich and Vasily the Unlucky | Macmillan | New York, NY
Alice | Macmillan | New York, NY
Master and Margarita | Penguin Books | New York, NY
The Brave Little Tailor | Hachette Éducation | Paris, France
Do-Rei-Mi | Labirint-press | Moscow, Russia
Museums
Art Museum University of Toronto | Toronto, Canada
An American Art Collection, Philharmonic Center for Arts | Naples, FL
Brevard Art Museum | Melbourne, FL
Rose Art Museum | Boston, MA
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College | Amherst, MA
Museum of Contemporary Art | La Jolla, CA
Zimerli Art Museum | New Brunswick, NJ
Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art | Loretto, PA
In the News
Art News | December 1974
The Harvard Crimson | March 1975
The New York Times | September 9, 1979
The National Jewish Monthly | June 1980
House and Garden | December 1983
The Yale Literary Magazine | 1982, 1985
Vanity Fair | September 1988
The Christian Science Monitor | June 1982; December 1984; May 1986
The Boston Connoisseur | 1986
Art & Auction | February 1988
Florida Today | March 1996
Naples Daily News | February 1996
Rocky Mount News | Denver, CO| 1986, 1989
Financial Times | London, UK | October 2000
Penthouse Magazine | 1991–1993
Vision Magazine | China | November 2015
Guideposts/Angels on Earth | November 2016
The Many Masks of Modern Art | Theodore Wolfe
Awards
Caldecott Award For Children’s Book Illustration (Nominated) | for Marko the Rich and Vasily the Unlucky | Thomas P. Whitney
The Art Directors Club 1991 Merit Award | 70th Annual Exhibition
Graphis Magazine Design Award | Penthouse Magazine | 1994