Career
Bilmes has illustrated campaigns for American Telephone & Telegraph Company, Columbia Broadcasting System, General Mills, Warner Lambert, Smirnoff Vodka, Citibank, Clairol, Western Union, Alaska Airlines, and Philip Morris. His work can be found on the covers of books and periodicals such as Reader"s Digest and the New York Times. His oil painting, "Lady in a red Turban", was on the cover of the annual directory of top illustrators and designers in the country, American Showcase.
Semyon Bilmes was born August 29, 1955, in Baku, Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. Bilmes" art education started when he was a child in youth classes where he studied fundamentals of drawing.
When he reached the age of sixteen he attended the A. Azim-Zade Academy of Art in Baku (Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics) where he was trained in the Russian Academic System. Bilmes" immigrated to New York in 1980 where he also graduated from the Parsons School of Design.
As a successful artist, understanding the need for classical art education, Bilmes founded the Bilmes Art School, where for ten years he taught art with a commercial emphasis. Blimes later acquired and renovated a large building in Ashland, Oregon, for The Ashland Academy of Artist
In 2010, Semyon with his family moved to Maui where they opened Atelier Maui.
Semyon is currently teaching at Atelier Maui.
