Потапов Олег Сергеевич (род. 1962)

1962 – Born in Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Region.
1982 – Graduated from the Ryazan Art College.
1989 – Graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute.
Began making regular creative trips to the Russian North (Lake Kenozero) from this year onwards.
1990 – Joined the Youth Association of the Union of Artists of the RSFSR.
1994 – Began making annual trips to the I.E. Repin Academic Dacha near Vyshny Volochyok.
1998 – Trip to the D.N. Kardovsky Creative Dacha in Pereslavl-Zalessky.
1999 – Joined the Moscow Union of Artists (MSKh).
Solo exhibitions: "House of Artists," Central Bank of the Russian Federation, Zhivago Bank (Ryazan).
2000 – Participated in an international *plein air* event in Maloyaroslavets, Kaluga Region. Participated in the "Landscapes of Russia" exhibition in Beijing (PRC). Participated in an exhibition of Russian artists at the Organization of American States, New York (USA). Solo exhibitions at the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation and the Moscow City Hall.
2001 – Solo exhibitions at "Russian Houses" in Budapest (Hungary) and Belgrade (Yugoslavia).
2002 – Solo exhibitions at the "Russian House" in Berlin (Germany) and the Central House of Artists (CHA) in Moscow. Served as artistic director of a *plein air* event in Kasimov, Ryazan Region.
2003 – Two solo exhibitions at the "Russian House" in Berlin (Germany). 2004 – Participation in an international *plein air* event in Belgorod. Participation in *plein air* events in Rzhev and Zubtsov (Tver Region). Two solo exhibitions at the "Russian House" in Berlin (Germany).
Creative trip to Paris (France).
2005 – Solo exhibitions at the "Russian Houses" in Brussels (Belgium) and Berlin (Germany).
Creative trip to Amsterdam (Netherlands).
2006 – Solo exhibitions at the "Russian Houses" in Luxembourg and Berlin (Germany).
2007 – Solo exhibitions at the "Russian Houses" in Vienna (Austria) and Berlin (Germany).
Second creative trip to Paris (France).
2008 – Beginning of regular trips to the K.A. Korovin Creative Retreat in Gurzuf (Crimea). Two solo exhibitions at the "Russian House" in Berlin (Germany).
2009 – Solo exhibition at the S.A. Yesenin State Museum-Reserve in Konstantinovo (Ryazan Region). Solo exhibition at the "Russian House" in Berlin (Germany).
Second creative trip to Amsterdam; travel across the Netherlands.
2010 – Creative trip beyond the Arctic Circle; travel across the Murmansk Region, including the Khibiny Mountains and the White Sea coast.
Solo exhibition at the "Russian House" in Berlin (Germany).
2011 – Solo exhibitions at the "Russian House" in Bratislava (Slovakia) and Berlin (Germany). Artistic trips to Venice, Prague, and Vienna.
2012 – Artistic trip to Rome (Italy). Participation in an international *plein air* event in Tivat (Montenegro).
Solo exhibition at the "Russian House" in Berlin (Germany).
Artistic trip to the Volga region (town of Plyos).
2013 – Participation in international *plein air* events in Borovsk and Tarusa (Kaluga Region).
2014 – Solo exhibitions at the "Russian House" in Berlin and the German-Russian Institute of Culture
in Dresden (Germany). Artistic trips to Madrid and Toledo (Spain).
2015 – Participation in a *plein air* event in Pereslavl-Zalessky (Yaroslavl Region). Artistic trip to St. Petersburg.
Solo exhibition at the Central House of Artists in Moscow (CHA).
2016 – Solo exhibition at the "Russian House" in Berlin. Participation in a *plein air* event in Vyatka.
Artistic trip to the village of Konstantinovo (Ryazan Region).
2017 – Solo exhibitions at the "Russian Houses" in Copenhagen (Denmark) and Berlin (Germany).
Artistic trip to Florence; tour of Italy. Artistic trip to Barcelona (Spain).
Participation in *plein air* events in Veliky Ustyug and Solnechnaya Dolina (Crimea).
2018 – Solo exhibition at the "Russian House" in Copenhagen (Denmark). Second artistic trip to Madrid;
tour of Spain. Artistic trips to Sweden and Greece.
Participation in *plein air* events in Kostroma and Koktebel. Awarded the Silver Medal of the Moscow Union of Artists (MSKh).
2019 – Creative trips to Denmark, Switzerland, Riga, and Tallinn. Pilgrimage to the Holy Sites in Israel.
Participation in an international *plein air* event in Montenegro.
2020 – Creative trip to Suzdal. Participation in a *plein air* event in Staroutkinsk on the Chusovaya River.
Participation in *plein air* events in Koktebel, Simeiz, and Alupka (Crimea).
2021 – Creative trips to Balaklava, Kurortnoye, and Sudak (Crimea).
2022 – Solo exhibition at the "Na Starom Perekrestke" (At the Old Crossroads) gallery in Ryazan.
2023 – Participation in a *plein air* event in Kirov, as well as in Zelenogorye and Simeiz (Crimea). Creative trips to Sergiev Posad and New Jerusalem.
2024 – Participation in the "Russian Atlantis" international *plein air* event in St. Petersburg. Participation in *plein air* events in Simeiz, Gurzuf, and Alupka (Crimea).
Creative trip to Vologda.
2025 – Participation in an international *plein air* event at the Pskov-Caves Monastery, as well as in *plein air* events in Gurzuf, Staraya Ladoga, and Smolensk. Creative trips to Gorokhovets and Rostov Veliky.
Letter of appreciation from His Eminence Matfey, Metropolitan of Pskov and Porkhov.

Works are held in the Art Fund of the Russian Federation, state art museums in Ryazan and Belgorod, the Ethnographic Museum in Kirov, and the M.A. Museum.