Sidorov, Valentin
1928
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b.1928
People’s Artist of the USSR (1988)
People’s Artist of the RSFSR (1979)
Member of the Russian Academy of Arts (1988)
Secretary of the Board of Russian Artists’ Union (1984-1987)
Chairman of the Russian Artists’ Union (1984-2008)
President of the International Confederation of the Artists’ Unions (1994)
Member of the International Association of Art - IAA AIAP UNESCO (2002)
Member of the Writers’ Union of Russia (2001)
Professor of Painting and Composition Departments at the Surikov Art Institute (1996)
Awarded: • Ilya Repin State Prize of the Russian Federation (1974)
• State Prize of the USSR (1984)
• State Prize of the Russian Federation (1997)
• Silver medal of the Academy of Arts (USSR, 1972)
• Gold medal of the Russian Academy of Arts (1996)
• Mikhail Sholokhov Prize (2000)

Valentin Sidorov took his first lessons at the art studio of the Pioneers’ Home where his teacher was Anatoly Mikhailov. Later he made studies at Moscow secondary art school, in the class of Mikhail Dobroserdov, Vasily Pochitalov, Michail Matorin. On finishing the art school Sidorov joined the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad where his teachers were Pyotr Belousov, Rudolf Frents and Ivan Stepashkin.
1954 – Valentin Sidorov graduated from the Surikov Art Institute, the class of Pyotr Kotov, Fyodor Reshetnikov and Viktor Tsyplakov.
On graduation Sidorov became Professor of the Surikov Art Institute.
1960–1966 – Sidorov was chief executive of the Academy’s Dacha, resting home for artists.

Valentin Sidorov’s paintings can be found in the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), museums of Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania, Italy, Japan, France, UK, Germany, Jordan and China.

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