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Vitaly Smaguin

Yuri Smaguin was born in 1937 in Irkutsk, Siberia (Russia). In 1965 he graduated from Irkutsk Art College and went to St. Petersburg. In 1971 he entered from St. Petersburg Academy of Decorative and Apply Arts (former Mukhina's Apply Arts Institute) and returned to his native Irkutsk.

Professional occupations:
- Chief artist of the City of Irkutsk
- Chairman of the Irkutsk Union of Artists
- Professor of Drawing & Painting Department of the Irkutsk State Technical University
- Manager of the Monumental Decorative Painting, Department of the Irkutsk State Technical University

Memberships in Professional Organizations:
1975 - Member of the Russia's Artists' Union
1997 - Academician of the Creative Academy
1998 - Member of the Russia's Designers' Union
1998 - Academician of the Social Education Academy

Public Service:
- Siberian Exhibition Committee
- Committee of the Governer's Awards in the field of Art in Irkutsk region
- Chairmanship of the Irkutsk Regional Art Fund

Honors:
- Award of the Ministry of Russian Culture and the Artists' Union of Russia
1985 - Artist Emeritus of Russia
1993 - People Honored Artist of Russia (Narodny Khudozhnik)
1985 - Gold Medal, Chief Committee of Economic Achievments of the USSR Exhibition for Painting
1977 - Award of the Irkutsk Region Administration, series of paintings devoted to the Lake Baikal

Exhibitions:
1972 - ''Artists of Irkutsk'', Irkutsk, Russia
1975, 1980, 1985 -- ''Siberian Art'', Moscow, Russia
1978 -''Soviet Art'', Karl-Marx-Stadt, Germany
1979, 1980, 1981, 1984, 1985 - ''Artists of Russia'', Moscow, Russia
1983 - Kabul, Afganistan
1981, 1984 - Suhe-Bator, Ulan-Bator, Mongolia
1997, 1998, 1999 - Russian Art Show at Due Fine Art Gallery, Eugene, Oregon, USA
1998, 1999 - Lawrence Gallery, Sheridan, Oregon, USA
1998, 1999 - Chetwynd Stapilton Gallery and Quintana Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
1999 - Moon in the Water Gallery and Pegasus Gallery, Corvallis, Oregon, USA

One Man Shows:
1984, 1986, 1997 - Irkutsk Fine Art Museum, Irkutsk, Russia

Principle works:
- Second War Soldiers Memorial in Irkutsk (in cooperation with architector V.Fedorin)
- Interior of the Sport Palace in Irkutsk
- Interior of the Theater of the Youth
- Paintings at the Irkutsk Fine Art Museum
- Paintings at the Art Fund of the Russian Federation, Moscow
- ''Good Forces'' Oil painting donated to Shriners Hospital for children in Portland, Oregon