Ilya Atom
Born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1996.
EDUCATION:
2015 - 2020г. - NNGASU (industrial design)
2020 - 2022г. - Master's Degree NNGASU (Industrial Design)
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2022г. - a-s-t-r-a open.vol. 2, gallery a-s-t-r-a, CCCI Vinzavod, Moscow- 2022г. - BACKDOOR, gallery 9B. - Nizhny Novgorod,
- 2022г. - "Concrete" concrete exhibition, Gallery "1221". - Nizhny Novgorod.
- 2022г. - "Agart" charity exhibition and auction, HSE Center of Cultures. - Moscow.
- 2022г. - "Cultural Layer". Gallery "Bogorodskoe" / Moscow exhibition halls. - Moscow, 2022. - "Compatibility" , gallery "9B". - Nizhny Novgorod,
- 2022г. - "Wild wild world", Lazy Mike Gallery. - Moscow,
- 2022г. - "Mesto 6" Street Art Project. - Nizhny Novgorod,
- 2022г. - "Top 50 people of Nizhny Novgorod", Milo Concert Hall. - Nizhny Novgorod,
- 2021г. - "Mesto x Zaryadye", northern tunnel of Zaryadye Park. - Moscow,
- 2021г. - "Mesto 5" street art project. - Nizhny Novgorod,
- 2021г. - "Richter. Regions", Richter Art Hotel. - Moscow,
- 2021г. - "AU!", Museum of Street Art. - St. Petersburg,
- 2021г. - "Art Market", TSI Terminal. - Nizhny Novgorod,
- 2020г. - "BOMS vs COPS", ALCATRAZ concert venue. - Nizhny Novgorod,
- 2019г. - "GRAFFITY HERE!", art cafe Sovok. - Nizhny Novgorod,
- 2019г. - The first exhibition in the team's tattoo studio. - Nizhny Novgorod,
- 2018г. - Exhibition of student works from the methodical fund in the exhibition hall of NNGASU
Works are in the Mikhail Astakhov Foundation, the funds of the galleries "Lazy Mike" and "9B", Contemporary Art Center "Termimal A", private collections.
"My interest in art came through a passion for graffiti in 2009, which at a certain point in my life captured all of my attention. Up to that point I had developed as an athlete, was a member of the Russian national team, but had to leave despite my high results and victories in international tournaments. Graffiti turned out to be a kind of sport too; an exploration of the city through risk, competition, the capture of space.
The peak of my graffiti career came in 2012-2013: spraying city surfaces and public transportation on a daily basis, an article in the famous graffiti magazine Vltramarine, several episodes of graffiti intervention on city TV, and the release of "The Ferrum" movie.
In 2012 I joined graffiti team Boms Crew, from that moment my creative way is connected with the team. Since 2020 the team in the established composition of 5 people begins to position itself as an artistic association, stating this by the first collective exhibition "Bomse Crew" in the tattoo studio of one of the participants.
The rejection of academism: the search for myself in photography, video art, performance, interventions, street art led also to studio practice.
My goal in art is to achieve maximum expression with minimal means.
In graphics I mostly use only charcoal, in street works I use black."
