Mongolian artist brings steppe winds to Moscow

A talented Mongolian artist, Otgontuvden Badam, is to show a debut exhibition “Steppe Wind” in Connoisseur Art Gallery in Moscow, Russia from June 6th till July 5th. The exhibition will showcase 50 works, from portraits and landscapes to historical paintings.

B.Otgontuvden, 29, is one of the few Mongolian graduates from the Ilya Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, the largest arts educational institution and one of the most important scientific centers in Russia. It is also considered one of the most well known art schools in the world. Otgontuvden became the only Mongolian to teach for the Academy after he graduated.

Otgontuvden has studied at the Mongolian Institute of Fine Art majoring in decorative applicable science from 2002 to 2004 and in the faculty of easel painting at the Voronej State Academy of Art from 2004 to 2008. In 2008, he moved to I.Ye. Repin St Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture and studied in the studio of Professor V.S. Pesikov. In 2012, he defended his diploma with an “excellent” mark and received the “Best Artist” diploma from the Russian Academy of Arts Council. Otgontuvden became a member of the Saint Petersburg’s Painters Union from 2012.

Otgontuvden Badam held his first solo exhibition “Grandmother`s Portrait” in Tsagaan Darium art gallery in his hometown on August 8th last year.