Born in 1965, Sergey Dozhd is a Russian contemporary artist known for his work spanning painting, installation and performance. Strongly influenced by the work of Kandinsky, throughout his career Dozhd has explored the relationship between abstraction and the viewer’s unconscious. Dozhd's work is now in prestigious public collections, including the Museum of Russian Academy of Fine Art (St. Petersburg, Russia), the Museum of Russian Art (Jersey City, USA), Today Art Museum (Beijing, China), and has received recognition among contemporary collectors including: Queen Silvia of Sweden, Robert Harris Rothchild (USA), Iwona Malewicz (Germany), Susan Katzev (USA) and Lai Yifan (China).
Sergey Dozhd looks at the history of art focusing on the relationship of mental and realistic artistic forms. His art practice aims at creating a deep connection with the viewers through a constant exploration of creativity and the creation - through his paintings - of unconscious psychological experiences. His abstract works play with the concepts of tone, volume, color, vision, sight, symmetry and asymmetry in order to open up unexpected possibilities of artistic synthesis. Dozhd has also developed a complex art theory that he calls “sciarsism”, which is a framework for both working directly with unconscious forms of creativity and for exploring how psychological theories of abstraction influence art production and reception.
Sergey Dozhd has had solo exhibitions in prestigious locations including: Art New York presented by Art Miami (NY, USA); Ning Space Museum and Today Art Museum (Beijing, China); St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts (Russia); the Museum of Russian Art – MoRA (NJ, USA) and the State Museum of Contemporary History of Russia (Moscow, Russia). His work has also been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art (Yaroslavl, Russia), the Russian Pavillion 10th Edition (NY, USA); at Scope Art Basel week (Miami, USA); Scope Armory Week (NY, USA) and at the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia).