1938-2018

Born on February 15, 1938, in Moscow, Yankilevsky received his first painting lessons from his father, the artist Boris Isaakovich Yankilevsky (1907–1987). From 1950 to 1956, he studied at the Moscow Secondary Art School affiliated with the V. I. Surikov Institute. In 1962, he graduated from the Printing Institute. In November 1962, at the invitation of Eliy Belyutin, his former teacher at the Printing Institute, Yankilevsky participated as an independent artist in a high-profile exhibition on Bolshaya Kommunisticheskaya Street (Taganka). In 1975, he participated in an exhibition at the Beekeeping Pavilion at VDNKh in Moscow. Since 1989, Vladimir Yankilevsky has lived and worked in New York, Paris, and Moscow.