1958
Andrey Shchelokov (born, 1958, Kohtla-Järve, Estonia) artist, installation author, designer, theater painter.
Graduate of the Theater directing department of the MKhAT Studio (1987, Moscow, Russia), Andrey Shchelokov began as a theater painter. In 1985-1989 he designed the stage sets for over 40 plays and operas. A. Shchelokov has been into contemporary art since the early 1990s. In his works A. Shchelokov combines seemingly the incompatible, promoting the clichés of various cultures and epochs, abstract signs, boulevard art-nouveau prints, Soviet-time military sanitation & hygiene posters and Chinese patterns to the genre of lofty art.