Ilya Grinberg (1964)
Born in Paris in 1964, Ilya Grinberg is a painter, engraver and illustrator.
He signs ILYA.
After graduating from the Conservatoire libre du cinema français in 1984, he had a brief experience of film sets, but quickly devoted himself to painting.
From 1986 to 1990, he attended the lithography workshop at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and took part in his first exhibitions.
During the following decade, he took part in the movement of Parisian artistic squats: Juliette Dodu, Garage 53, Passage de la Défense, Rue de Châtillon, Couvent des Récollets, La Forge.
In these places, he paints, he exhibits, he gets involved in collective life, and sometimes settles down to live there.
His works were then presented at the Galerie l'Œil de Bœuf.
Ilya Grinberg then exhibited punctually in Paris and Berlin.
In 2017, Atelier 36 in Paris presents its recent works.
His paintings appear regularly in the exhibitions of the Cérès Franco Museum-Cooperative in Montolieu :
-2017, The International of Visionaries. Curator: Jean-Hubert Martin, honorary director of the Center Pompidou-Musée National d'Art Moderne.
- 2018, In search of the Grail. Curator: Dominique Polad-Hardouin, founder of the Polad-Hardouin gallery.
- 2019, star crunchers. Curator: Dominique Polad-Hardouin.