Alex And (Alexey D. Andreev Ukrainian: Анд Олексій Дмитрович, Russian: Анд Алексей Дмитриевич) is a Ukrainian artist of Magic realism, Fantastic art, Visionary art, applied to contemporary art.
He was included into list of top-20 painters of Ukraine.[1] In 1996 Alex And became winner from popular artist of the first L1 auction of contemporary Ukrainian arts (National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kyiv).[2] At present time he lives and works in Kyiv, Ukraine.
In Russian "United Artists Rating" (issue XVII, 2010), Alex And is registered under the art-category 5B like a formed professional artist.[3]
And's works are in the public collections of the National Reserve Bank of Ukraine; of the Foundation "Ukrainian Renaissance" (Kyiv); at the Museum of the Central Archives of the Ministry of Defense (Podolsk, Russia); in galleries and private collections in Ukraine, Russia, Western Europe and America.
Alex And was born in 1962 in Kyiv, Ukraine. In 1980 he graduated the Republican Art School, Kyiv, Ukraine and then, in 1988 - the Kyiv State Art Institute (now - The National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture). His teachers at the specialty were: Members of Ukrainian Art Academy Chekanyuk V.A., Storozhenko N.A. and Professor Kozhekov A. Since 1994 he was a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine. He work in "associative symbolism" style. The term implies a certain suggestiveness. It was believed that when an object loses otherworldly mysticism, there is only associative symbolism. It term used in poetry, literature and the visual arts.
1998 International Art-Festival, National Art Palace 'Ukrainian House', Kyiv, Ukraine. (catalogue).
1998 All-Ukrainian Trienalle “Painting-98”, Central House of Artist NSHU, Kyiv, Ukraine. (catalogue).
1998 Personal Exhibition. Ukraine National Philharmonic Society, Kyiv, Ukraine.
1999 Winner of the Competition “Ukraine National Art-Rate”, Kyiv, Ukraine.
1999 Winner of the Fourth International Art-Festival, National Art Palace 'Ukrainian House', Kyiv, Ukraine. (catalogue).
2000 “Contemporary Ukrainian Fine Art”, New York City, US.
2000 National mega-project “Ukraine Art of the XXth c.”, National Art Palace 'Ukrainian House', Kyiv, Ukraine. (catalogue).
2000 All-Ukrainian Exhibition of Fine Art, Central House of Artist NSHU, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2000 Winner of the competition “Ukraine National Art-Rate”, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2000 Winner of the Fifth International Art-Festival, National Art Palace 'Ukrainian House', Kyiv, Ukraine. (catalogue).
2001 Included into Contemporary Ukraine Encyclopaedia edited by Ivan Juba, Ukraine National Academy of Sciences, Kyiv.
2002 International Moscow Salon “CHA-2002”, Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia.
2002 Personal Exhibition. National Historico-cultural Monument "Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra", NEF Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2003 Personal Exhibition. National Historico-cultural Monument. “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra”, NEF Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2003 Creations of Ukrainian Artists, Ayvazovskiy Museum, Feodosia, Ukraine.
2004 Personal Exhibition. National Historico-cultural Monument. “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra”, NEF Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2004 “ASSOCIATIVE SYMBOLISM” Project, Alexey And (painting), Alexey Vladimirov (sculpture). National Art Palace 'Ukrainian House', Kyiv, Ukraine.
2005 All-Ukrainian Exhibition “The World of Leucas”, Odesa, Ukraine.
2006 All-Ukrainian Exhibition “Ukraine from the Tripolye until Today Through Images of Contemporary Artists”, Central House of Artist NSHU, Kyiv, Ukraine. (catalogue).
2006 All-Ukrainian Exhibition “The World of Leucas”, National Art Museum, Lviv, Ukraine.
2006 “Kyiv Paintings”, Central House of Artist NSHU, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2009 All-Ukrainian Exhibition “Ukraine from the Tripolye until Today Through Images of Contemporary Artists”, Central House of Artist NSHU, Kyiv, Ukraine. (catalogue).
2010 Personal Exhibition “ASSOCIATIVE SYMBOLISM”. Arts Support Fund, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2010–2011 Ukrainian Exhibition “Christmas Fantasies”. Arts Support Fund, Kyiv, Ukraine.
