Born in Paris in 1964, Ilya Grinberg is a painter, engraver and illustrator.
He signs his work Ilya.
After graduating from the Conservatoire libre du cinema français in 1984, he briefly worked on film sets but quickly turned his focus 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.
His works were then presented at the Galerie l’Œil de Bœuf.
His paintings are regularly featured in exhibitions at the Coopérative-Musée Cérès Franco in Montolieu:
2017, L’internationale des visionnaires. Curated by Jean-Hubert Martin, former director of the Centre Pompidou-Musée National d'Art Moderne.
2018, En quête de Graal. Curated by Dominique Polad-Hardouin, founder of the Polad-Hardouin gallery.
2019, Croqueurs d’étoiles. Curated by Dominique Polad-Hardouin.
2020 and 2021,The Thieves of Fire. Curator: Dominique Polad-Hardouin.
From the exhibition ROSE(S), color as a cultural construct, he collaborates with the Kaléidoscope gallery, which him to organize a first personal exhibition of recent works in June 2021.