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Occupation - Fine Arts, Design ( www.lauren.ru ). Boris Laurentiev is a member of the Union of Artists and the International Federation of Artists of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

Laurentiev has a Master's Degree from the Stroganov's Moscow Higher Art-Industrial University, the oldest school of industrial and applied art in Russia, found in 1825. The alumni included V. Kandynsky, K. Malevich, A. Rodchenko and E. Lissitsky. The school is in association with Oxford Brookes.

LIST OF EXHIBITIONS 1993 - Group exhibition "Christian Art - Traditions and Present Time" organized by Moscow Patriarchate; 1993 - Group exhibition at the "Union Gallery"; 1994/1995 - Group exhibition at World's Championship in Tennis "Kremlin Cup-94/95" ; 1994 - Group exhibition of Russian artists at "Druot" Hotel in Paris, France; 1994/1998 - Group exhibition at the Central House of the Artists (CHA), the home to the new Tretyakov Gallery; 1995 - Personal exhibition "Listening to a Harp - Saul and David" at the Museum of Modern Politics/Museum of Revolution in Russia; 1996 - Group exhibition "Sex-tine Chapel" at Metropol in Russia ; 1996 - Group exhibition at the Moscow channel "TV-Center"; 1996 - Group exhibition at "Inter Art Gallery Reich" in Koeln, Germany; 1997 - Solo exhibition at ProBuisness bank headquarters in Russia; 1997 - Solo exposition at the "Art Manege-97" in Moscow State Exhibition Hall; 1998 - Personal exhibition at the Moscow branch of "MacArthurs- Fund", USA; 1999 - Group exhibition at the gallery "Kino" in Russia ; 2000 - Solo exhibition of paintings at the National Reserve bank in Russia; 2000 - Solo exhibition "Defloration of Myth" at the CHA; 2000 v Solo exhibition at the business complex "Estate" in Russia; 2002 - Solo exhibition "I Make Photograph of Myth" at the CHA; 2002-2004 - Solo exhibition of paintings and collages at ALFA BANK.

PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTION LIST National Reserve Bank, Russia ; ProBusinessBank, Russia; Alfa Bank, Russia; Deutsche Bank Collection & U.J. Muller (private collection), Hamburg, Germany; Inter Art Reich Gallery, Koeln, Germany; Collection of Jrmgard Gosebruch, Bruxelles, Belgium; Optimation Company, Munich, Germany; Collection of O. von Schmitz-Horbach, Aachen, Germany; Gallery Modern Art & Design, Hans Eberhard, Stuttgart, Germany; Bel Development Co. (structure of Russian Aluminum Co.), Russia; Russian Aluminium Company, Russia; Dr. Kerner's Collection, Munich, Germany; A. Bertolini's Collection, Rome, Italy; Dr. Norbert Schaller's Collection, Korneuburg/Vena, Austria; Stephane Frappat's Collection, CEO of the Camden Partners L.L.P., Paris, France; Collection of Preston H. Haskell, FL, USA, Director of the Colliers International, USA/UK; Collection of Naum Olev, Director of the Zero Gallery, Russia; OAO LUKOIL', Russia; International UNESCO Foundation, Russia

BIOGRAPHY: After serving in the army, Boris Laurentiev's first professional project was to build a memorial complex in honor of the victory in the WWII. From 1990 - Author's contract work in the system of Russian Federation Art Fund, creating paintings for the Palace of Youth in the city of Saratov, making Florentine mosaic for the facade of Ust-Ilimsk hydro-electric power-station, etc., at the same time creating paintings and objects of the so-called paper architecture. From 1993-to-1998 Laurentiev had a contract work with the "Union Gallery". From 1995 due to the beginning of private enterprise in Russia, developed and carried out architectural and design projects, such as designed and created interiors for a French restaurant and a few cafes in Moscow, designed and built an amphitheater for 3,000 people in the Crimea (http://www.lauren.ru/pages/amfi.htm,) and after winning a tender in 1997, designed and built the 2nd floor of Moscow Taganka Theater (http://www.lauren.ru/leclub/33.htm) apart from designing the interiors of the jazz club "Le Club ", the author created frescoes and a series of lamps. From 1997-to-2001 the artist designed and built an entertainment complex in a GAZPROM Company resort, a two-store apartment in the center of Moscow and ethnic Moroccan and Japanese restaurants in Moscow (http://www.lauren.ru/mar/33.htm.) From 1995-2004 Laurentiev created sketches of frescoes, mosaics, stained-glass windows, and forged metal. From 2003-to date the artist has been involved in creating an architectural project and design of interiors of a corporative residence - a complex of houses, parks and amphitheaters, as well as creating a project of reconstruction of a former "profit house" built in 1911 and changing it into an office complex.

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