Perepelkin, Alexei

Alexei Perepelkin was born in the Russian city of Tikhvin in 1991.  He graduated from the Ioganson Art College at the Repin Institue for Paintings, Sculpture and Architecture (named for the great artist Boris Ioganson) in 2010, with the Silver Medal . That same year, he was accepted into the Repin Institute's Academy of Painting without having to take the difficult entrance exam because of winning the coveted Silver Medal.  He will graduate from the Academy in late 2015.  While at the Academy, he has studied in the studio of Professor Peskin, and under the artist Nikolai Blokhin.