Sergey Yablonsky (aka Sergey Ukonin)
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia​​​​​​​

​​​​​In my artistic practice, I explore the conceptual aesthetic of objects through various styles, including abstract, surrealism, dada, absurdism, irony, and misplaced situations. My work encompasses a range of mediums, including photography, digital art, painting, graphics, and sculpture.
I began my artistic career in my early thirties when I joined the Society of Experimental Fine Arts, the largest artistic avant-garde movement in the former Soviet Union. The group of artists, based in St. Petersburg, organized regular exhibitions showcasing a "new" art five years prior to the rise of Perestroika in the Soviet Union. During the 1980s, my paintings were regularly exhibited at these shows.
In addition to traditional mediums, I have been working in digital art and digital photography since the 2000s. Starting with raster images in Adobe Photoshop, vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator, and 3D objects in Maya/ 3ds Max, I have now added various text-to-image AI-driven art services like GAN & DALL·E 2 OpenAI to my toolkit for creating artworks. My latest series of mixed media works push the boundaries between digital and physical art creation. Using generative and machine learning algorithms, they offer collectors a wide variety of unique artworks to choose from, featuring energetic splashes of color and form.
My works have been featured in the Russian Museum, Museum of Art of Saint Petersburg XX-XXI Centuries, and the Museum of Nonconformist Art in St. Petersburg, as well as in private collections in Russia, Spain, the USA, Israel, and France. 
Due to moral and political convictions from March 2022 I’m based in Jaen, Spain.
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Selected Exhibitions
2025 - ​​​​​​​Exhibition of the finalists for the III Edition of the Amedeo Modigliani Foundation Award. 
2024 - ARTIADE 2024, https://artiade.com/, November 15 to 25, 2024, New York, USA.
2024 - NordArt 2024 https://www.nordart.de/en/artistsJune 1 to 6 October, 2024, Büdelsdorf,
Germany
2024 - Exposiciones I Concurso de Fotografía Artjaén 2022, ESCUELA DE ARTE SAN TELM, MÁLAGA, Spain. Del 25 de junio al 13 de septiembre de 2024.
2024 - Exposiciones I Concurso de Fotografía Artjaén 2022, UNIVERSIDAD DE JAEN, Jaen, Spain. Del 10 de abril al 31 de mayo de 2024.
2023 - Beauty in Transition: Redefining Aesthetics for Tomorrow, Google Cloud, Slush Conference, Helsinki.
2012 – Second Photo biennale of the Modern Photography, Russian museum, St.- Petersburg, Russia. 
2009 – First Museum Photo biennale, Russian museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. 2007 – ArtIndex: Photographers’06, St.-Petersburg, Manej, February 22 – March 10, 2007 2006 – New names at "Pushkinskaya-10" Art Centre, St.-Petersburg, Russia. 
2004 – Festival of Independent Art devoted to the 30th anniversary of the exhibition at The Palace of Culture named after Gaza and to the 15th anniversary of The "Pushkinskaya-10" Art Centre, "Manezh" Central Exhibition Hall, St.-Petersburg. 
1987 – Gavan-1 TEII ("Гавань-1"), Lenexpo, Leningrad. 1986 – TEII-86, Palace of Youth, Leningrad, Russia. 
1984 – TEII-84 (TEII - The Society of Experimental Fine Arts), Palace of Youth, Leningrad, Russia.
Selected References
2024 - NordArt 2024, June 1 to 6 October, 2024, Büdelsdorf, Germany, Catalog: https://www.nordart.de/fileadmin/downloads/kuenstler/2024/Welt/NordArt2024_Yablonsky_Sergey.pdf2023 - I CONCURSO DE FOTOGRAFÍA ARTJAÉN, Jaen, SpainCatalog:https://www.artjaen.com/archivos/artjaen_uja_2024.pdf
From falling into the flight (in Russian) / Из падения в полет. Независимое искусство Санкт- Петербурга. Вторая половина ХХ века. Посвящается 30- летию выставки ленинградских художников нонконформистов в ДК им. И.И.Газа. – Серия «Авангард на Неве». – СПб., 2006. 576 с. 
ARTINDEX. PHOTOGRAPHS’06 (ФОТОГРАФЫ'06): CATALOG- DIRECTORY. – СПб., 2006. 464 с.
ARTINDEX. PAINTERS’06 (ХУДОЖНИКИ'06): CATALOG-DIRECTORY. – СПб., 2006. 561 с. 
Gurevich, L. Artists of Leningrad underground (in Russian) / Гуревич Л. Художники ленинградского андеграунда. – Серия «Авангард на Неве». – СПб.: Искусство-СПБ, 2007; 2-е изд. СПб. 2019.
The First Photo biennale of the Russian museum, Gosudarstvennyĭ russkiĭ muzeĭ (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Palace Editions, 2009 - Photography - 559 pages. 
The Second Photo biennale of the Modern Photography, Editor-in-chief: E. Petrova;  Articles: M. Panova, Palace Editions, St.-Petersburg, , Russia, 2012, 272 pages.
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