Background
Igor Alekseevich Smirnov was born on July 6, 1944 in Moscow.
Igor Alekseevich Smirnov was born on July 6, 1944 in Moscow.
Igor Alekseevich Smirnov studied at Moscow and Leningrad Secondary Art School (1954-1960). In 1969 he entered The School of Art in Memory of 1905
In 1971 the first caricature of the artist was published in the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda. Since then, and to date, thousands of his caricatures have been published in the media around the world. His works were published in the newspapers Pravda, Komsomolskaya Pravda, Krasnaya Zvezda, Izvestia, Moscovskiye Novoti, Literaturnaya gazeta, Golos Rodiny, Rossiiskie Vesti, Obshaya Gazeta, as well as magazines Crocodile, Novoye Vremya, Veselie Kartinki, Sovetskaya Zhenshchina, Krasnyi Krest, Otchizna, STP, Delovye Lyudi, Socium, Zhurnalist and in other publications.
Igor Alekseevich Smirnov is a participant of more than 250 exhibitions in different countries, including Canada, the USA, Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Holland, England, Belgium, Germany, France, Turkey, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Romania, Italy, Spain, Austria, Philippines and Japan.
Igor Smirnov organized personal exhibitions at the Library named after N.A. Nekrasov (1988, Moscow), the Museum of Cartoons in Zielona Gora (1989), as well as in Istanbul (1990), Madrid (1991, at the invitation of the German Manches Foundation), Mexico City and Guadalajara (1991), The Central House of Artists in Moscow (1993), Acapulco (1994, Mexico), Bordeaux (1998, France). 4 catalogues of works of the artist were published: Catalogue of the personal exhibition Perestroika in Our City (1988); in the series Masters of the Soviet Caricature - Igor Smirnov (Moscow: Soviet artist, 1991); Book of Caricatures by I. Smirnov (published by Nazim Gerey, 1991, charitable foundation of Ankara); Catalogue of the international personal exhibition Perestroika.