2016 - Member of the Creative Union of Professional Artists, Moscow

2016- Member of the Union of Abstractionists of Russia (SABROS)

2018 - Member of the Professional Union of Artists of Russia, Moscow

2020 – Full Member (Academician) of Peter the Great Academy of Sciences and Arts, St. Petersburg

2020 – Professor of Visual Arts, Peter the Great Academy of Sciences and Arts, St. Petersburg

2021 - Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Modern Arts, Moscow

2021 - "Top-100 Best Russian Artist for 2021" according to the "Ot I Do - Art Without Mediators" rating

2023 - Honored Arts Personality of Russia

2024 – Klykov Medal for Visual Arts

2024 - Grand Prix for Graphic Art, Moscow, Russia

List of Medals awarded in Europe's largest International Contest “Art.Excellence.Awards”:

2021, Bronze Medal, painting ("Horoscope")

2021, Silver Medal, painting ("Mountains")

2022, Bronze Medal, painting ("Constellation of Pisces")

2022, Silver Medal, art project ("Wanderings")

2022, Silver Medal, photography ("Golden Dawn over the Sea")

2022, Bronze Medal, painting ("Discs" cycle)

2022, Silver Medal, art project ("Messages")

2022, Gold Medal, art project ("Geometric Abstractions and Fashion")

2023, Silver Medal, media art, video art ("Wheels and Stars")

2023, Bronze Medal, media art (digital work "Geometrics of Magenta")

2023, Bronze Medal, media art (art project "Novice or Rebel")

2023, Silver Medal, painting ("Composition No. 425")

2025, Silver Medal, painting ("Star")

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Selected exhibitions

Permanent display at hotel in Collioure, France, 2024-2025

“1000 Opere” group exhibition, Rome, Italy, May – October  2025

Chiesa San Silvestro al Quirinale, “RINASCITA Arte dell’anima”, group exhibition, Rome, Italy, April - May 2025

Palazzo Colonna, “Primavera” group exhibition, Rome, Italy, March 2025

Palazzo Colonna, Rome, Italy, Christmas  group exhibition, December 2024

Palazzo Carpegna Palace TH of Vatican, Rome, Italy, group exhibition, December 2024

“Choice of Art Bureau – 15”, “Espace 22” Gallery, group exhibition, Monaco,  July 2023

Art Ocean's Day, Milano, group show, 14 June 2021

Fashion World Clean Up March , Milano, Italy, group show, February 2020

Fashionable Eco Art Exhibition, Palazzo Zenobio, Venice, Italy, group show, February 2020

Solo exhibition in Nice, France, September-   October 2019

Gray d’Albion Hotel, Cannes, France, group exhibition, September 2018

Vallauris, France, group exhibition of 3 artists, August 2018

Galerie Espen ARTDENOR,  Cannes, France, group exhibition, August 2017

Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy, group exhibition of French artists “Aria di Francia”, organized by Galleria d’Arte Mentana, June 2017

I-galley, “THEATRE SUR PAPIER”, Montmartre, Paris, France, group exhibition, January 2017

“Free Look”, Berlin, Germany, group exhibition, December 2016

 “Theater auf dem Papier”, organized by ARTISCHOCKEN, group exhibition, Nuremberg, Germany, September – October 2016

“Sine Finibus”, I-galley, Montmartre, Paris, France, group exhibition, August 2016

Villa Aloha, Cannes, France, solo exhibition, July 2016

TOTAL in Western Europe: 20 events including 2 solo exhibitions

Iskan Ilyazov - ARTIST BIOGRAPHY

Iskan was born in 1956 in the city of Tiraspol in Moldova into a family of schoolteachers. The family had a notable home library, his father was fond of books and catalogs on art, subscribed to illustrated magazines of the USSR and Socialist countries and introduced his son to the visual arts (1967 - 1973).

While studying at the Foreign Languages Institute in Moscow, Iskan visited most of the zonal, republican and all-Union exhibitions of fine arts in 1973 – 1978.

In 1976, Iskan received the diploma of a Swedish language guide, practiced for almost six months and specialized in art museums of the Soviet Union.

From 1983 to 1988 Iskan was employed as an expert at the representative office of USSR Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Romania where he attended evening art history courses at the National Gallery of Romania in Bucharest in the 1986-87 academic year. He was friends with one of Romania's top-10 painters, Sabin Bălașa, and engaged in discussions about art in his studio, from January 1986 to April 1988.

Iskan attended annual ART-MIF art fair in Moscow in 1990 - 1992.  He spent time in Furmanniy and Banniy clusters artist's squats in Moscow in the 1990s.

In the academic year 1993-1994 Iskan was a student at the Law and Business School of Kingston University in the suburbs of London and attended classes in the Department of Arts History. From January to April 1994 he moved from Kingston-upon-Thames to London and rented a room in order to study art museums and galleries of London.

In 1995 – 2015 Iskan traveled to Italy to get acquainted with the treasures of fine art, visited churches and museums in Venice, Florence, Rome, Milano.

In Moscow in 1995 – 2004 Iskan visited the ART-MOSCOW, ART-MANEZH, and Antique Salon fairs, went to the SOVKOM auctions.

Iskan visited the principal exhibitions of foreign artists in Moscow. Iskan purchased and studied more than 200 kg of art catalogues and magazines between 1998 and 2015, delving deeply into the philosophy and history of art, graphics, and painting as he put together his collection of over 400 graphics items. He focused his collection on the artworks of Moscow non-conformist artists of the 1960s-1970s, but he also always collected the artworks of his contemporaries, from 1995 to 2012. Iskan studied the catalogues of London auctions MacDougall’s, Bonham’s, Christie’s, and Sotheby’s with interest and comprehensiveness, attended auctions and pre-auction exhibitions in London and Moscow, analyzed advantages and disadvantages of lots and artists, and made very selective purchases at London auctions in 2008-2012.

Iskan repeatedly visited galleries and museums in Nice, Monaco, Paris, Cannes, Aix-en-Provence, and other cities during his aggregate 40 months of visits to France from 2010 to 2018.

In September 2016, Iskan published a 48-page personal art catalog with a print run of 500 copies in Russian and English, for which he wrote most of the texts.