Filimonov Dmitrii Dmitry Filimonov was born in 1997 in a small village in the Ulyanovsk region, Russia.
At the age of 14, he started living independently, moving to Ulyanovsk, Russia, where he enrolled in the College of Culture and Arts, studying landscape design. From 2016 to 2022, he studied monumental and decorative painting at the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry.
In 2022, he left Russia and moved to Tbilisi, where he created his first series of ceramic sculptures.
Since September 2024, Dmitry has been living and working in Paris.
Dmitry’s artistic practice is based on the reworking and reflection of traumatic childhood experiences. Having lost his parents at an early age, all his unspoken pain found expression in the images of clowns and anthropomorphic characters. For him, this is a way to escape from a cruel and chaotic reality into a world of his own fantasies, where there are no socially imposed rules or stigmas.
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions:
2025 “Où est ton visage?” / L Galerie, Paris, France
2023 “Awakening” / “Laboratory of Possibilities” project, Moscow, Russia
Group Exhibitions:
2025 Fragment(s) / Galerie Nocte, Paris, France
2025 Echo of Alterations / Apartment 52, Tbilisi, Georgia
2024 “The Magic of Love” / Exhibition space Corals, Milan, Italy
2023 “Je ne suis pas arrivé” / Dissolution Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2022 “Following the Running One” / Milliart Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2022 “The Demiurge Forges His Fate” / Triptych Gallery, Moscow, Russia
RESIDENCIES
2024 Lami-Genolini Art Residency, Erba, Italy
2018 Miro Antique House, Thessaloniki, Greece
COLLABORATIONS
2021 PURPUR x Dmitry Filimonov, Moscow, Russia
PUBLICATIONS
2025 Snob Magazine on the exhibition “Où est ton visage?”, Moscow, Russia
2025 Suboart Magazine, Lisbon, Portugal
2024 ARTEA Fanzine, Barcelona, Spain
2023 Interview for Chrome Magazine, Berlin, Germany