Kirill Dremlyukh

kad7259@is5.nyu.edu

KIRILL DREMLYUKH was born in 1972 in Odessa, Ukraine. While a high school student, he completed diploma as an artist-decorator.

Since 1987 his caricatures of famous people, such as actors, poets, and politicians were often published in Soviet newspapers, magazines and caricatures booklets.

Since 1993 Kirill Dremlyukh has been living in New-York, where he continues his work as a cartoonist. He has had quite a number of publications in many Russian-American newspapers, including the oldest one-"Novoye Russkoye Slovo", the paper of record of the Russian-American community.

BOOKS: In 1995, the New-York publishing house "GLANCE" published a book of Mr.Dremlyukh's caricatures, admiring the artist's talent. In 1998 the most famous Russian-American publishing house "Liberty" published another book of Dremlyukh's caricatures, accompanied with poetry of Boris Vetrov.

EXHIBITIONS: As a member of Odessa's Cartoonists Union, Kirill participated in many local, national and international exibitions, which took place all over the world. After moving to the USA he has had about ten solo exibitions of his caricatures.

ANIMATION: In 1990 Kirill was invited to Odessa's Animation Studio as a head artist. An animated film "Turnip", based on the caricatures he created, soon won several prizes at Animation festivals in Zhitomir (Ukraine), Minsk (Belorus), ane few other states of the USSR. While a student at the Tisch School of the Arts, which he graduated in May, 1998, Mr.Dremlyukh continued his work in animation. Two of his animated films were shown during the Tisch Festivals of Animation in 1995 and 1997.

WEB: http://pages.nyu.edu/~kad7259