Shipilin, Igor

· Shipilin was born in Sevastopol, Ukraine (Crimean Peninsula) on October 15, 1961.

· Studied at the Childrens’ Art School in Sevastopol from 1973 to 1977. After graduation, he worked as a fine artist and graphic designer.

· Began exhibiting in 1989 in the Ukraine.

· From 1990 to 1991, Shipilin attended the Repin Institute in Leningrad where he took a class in book illustration with Professor A. Pakhomov.

· Attended the Moscow University of Publishing  from 1993 to 1999 where he studied painting with A.S. Kotlyarov and drawing with Y.I. Chuvashev.

· Shipilin has been a member of the Ukrainian Artists’ Union since 1994.

· Participant in numerous group exhibitions in the Ukraine, Russia and Europe.

· Lives in Sevastopol, Ukraine today where he is a prominent painter in Crimea. Influenced by the deceased Crimean impressionist, Fedor Zakharov.