Background
He was born in Saint St. Petersburg, Russia in 1934.
He was born in Saint St. Petersburg, Russia in 1934.
He studied sculpture at the secondary school of Arts at the I.Repin Art Institute (Leningrad), then at the Tallinn Art Institute (Estonia), and from 1953 to 1957 at the I.Repin institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture.
He is most well known for his large-scale monuments, including Broken Ring, a monument to the "Road of Life" on Lake Ladoga, near Saint St. Petersburg, and "Totem America," exhibited for a decade at DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park. He is a recipient of awards from the International Dyagilev Prize “Foreign Devotion to Art”, The Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, and The Pollack-Krasner Foundation. Konstantin Simun was born in Leningrad, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, in 1934.
Since 1988 he has been living in the United States of America. Konstantin Simun has created numerous works which have been widely exhibited throughout Russia and the United States.
He is the author of the 1966 monument "Broken Ring" on Lake Ladoga (near Street St. Petersburg, Russia), which brought him international recognition, and is acknowledged as one of the most significant memorials of World World War World War II Simun"s works are in the permanent collections of Russia"s largest museums, such as the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moskow, the State Russian Museum in Saint St. Petersburg, the Permanent Gallery in Permanent and others, as well as in private collections. His work "Totem: America" was exhibited at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln, Massachusetts, from 1993 to 2002, and brought him great popularity in the United States. He is the author of the Memorial to puppeteer I. Fokin installed in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Massachusetts in 2001.
In 1958 he became a member of the Artists" Union of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics.