Kirill N. Gavrilin

PhD in Art History, Associate Professor, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, Expert of the Arctic Development Project Office, member of the International Council of Museums of ICOM (ICOM), Member of the Expert Council of the All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts, member of the Scientific Committee for the Study of Russian Culture at CSAR University of Ca'Foscari, Venice, Italy (since 2005).

Education:
Department of History and Theory of Art, Faculty of History, Lomonosov Moscow State University (1988–1994)

PhD thesis:
Monumental Coroplasty of Southern Etruria and Latium: Sculpture Schools of the 6th — Early 5th Century BC (2000)

Research interests:
Artistic culture of Symbolism, art of Antiquity, art of the 20th century, modern art of China

Professional service:
Organizer of academic conferences

Honorary titles and awards:
Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education of the Russian Federation (since 2010), Gratitude from the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan for participation in the 10^th Tashkent International Biennale of Contemporary Art (2024), the Gold Medal of the Russian Academy of Arts “To the Worthy One” (2025), the Diploma of the Russian Academy of Arts for assistance in organizing and participating in the interregional art project “Picturesque Russia. According to the Laws of the Genre” (2025), Medal “For Impeccable Work and Merit” of the Ministry of Education and Science (2025), Medal “For Diligence and Fidelity to Traditions” of the Russian State University of Design and Applied Arts (Stroganov University) (2025)

Other information:
Member of the editorial board of the collection “Codex manuscriptus”.

Teaching activity:
Kirill Gavrilin created a large academic school: 28 graduate and postgraduate students defended their PhD theses under his supervision.

Academic publications (73 in total, including 5 monographs):

Collective works (editor):

Ivanova L.V., Zhang Jin. Scientific work of graduate students. Textbook. Moscow, Stroganov Russian State Academy of Design and Applied Arts, 2021.
Brown V.P., Borisova N.L. Problems of strengthening fresco-tempera painting with egg yolk. Textbook. Moscow, Stroganov Russian State Academy of Design and Applied Arts, 2021.
Museums of the world. Educational method. handbook of English / author-comp. K.P. Arkhipova. Moscow, Stroganov Russian State Academy of Design and Applied Arts, 2022.
Italian Renaissance: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Decorative and Applied Arts. Textbook. Moscow, Stroganov Russian State Academy of Design and Applied Arts, 2022.

Articles:

Archaic Traditions and Modern Art on the Example of the Curatorial Exhibition Project «Intuition» (Venice, Palazzo Fortuny, 2017). Decorative Art and Environment. Gerald of the RGHPU, no. 1, pt. 2, 2024, pp. 399–409. https://doi.org/10.37485/1997-4663_2024_1_2_399_409. (Co-authored with М.R. Gainulina)
The Concept of Exaptation in the Theoretical Search and Creative Practice of Alexander McQueen. Decorative Art and Environment. Gerald of the RGHPU, no. 3, pt. 3, 2023, pp. 94–104. https://doi.org/10.37485/1997-4663_2023_3_3_94_104.
Borderlines of the Runway: Transitioning the Traditional Fashion Show Space into Artistic Expression. Decorative Art and Environment. Gerald of the RGHPU, no. 1, pt. 2, 2024, pp. 139–152. https://doi.org/10.37485/1997-4663_2024_1_2_139_152. (Co-authored with E.А. Kostyukova)
Lu Xin's Educational Activities in the Field of Art. Russia — China. The Silk Road of Art: Crossroads of Ideas. Collective monograph based on the materials of international academic conference. Moscow, Stroganov Russian State University of Design and Applied Arts, 2023, pp. 98–101. (Co-authored with Liu Xin Xi)
Analysis of Traditional Chinese Elements in the Painting of Chang Yu's Characters. Russia — China. The Silk Road of Art: Crossroads of Ideas. Collective monograph based on the materials of international academic conference. Moscow, Stroganov Russian State University of Design and Applied Arts, 2023, pp. 128–129. (Co-authored with Chen Chunhui)
In Memory of Paola Cioni (1963–2021). Memoirs of NovSU, no. 1 (40), 2022, pp. 2–7. (Co-authored with A.L. Semenova, M.A. Arias-Vikhil')
Art Education and Provincial Painting of the Late 18th — Early 19th Century. Bulletin of the South Ural State University. Ser. Social Sciences and the Humanities, vol. 22, no. 4, 2022, pp. 58–68. (in Russ.). DOI: 10.14529/ssh220407. (Co-authored with А.D. Akilova)
Zhang Liping, Master of the Free Brush. Scientific and Analytical Journal House of Burganov. Cultural Space, no. 2, 2025, pp. 27–37. https://doi.org/10.36340/2071-6818-2025-21-2-27-37. (Co-authored with G.K. Koshelev)
The Colossus of Hera in Argos by Polycletus the Elder: Reconstruction Experience. Scientific and Analytical Journal House of Burganov. Cultural Space, no. 3, 2022, pp. 10–31. (Co-authored with I.V. Akilov and N.V. Akilov)
Kang Sehwag — a Painter, Calligrapher, Poet, Critic and Official: A Model of Korean Intellectual of the 18^th Century. Decorative Art and the Object-Spatial Environment: Bulletin of Stroganov Russian State Academy of Design and Applied Arts, no. 1, pt. 1, 2021, pp. 180–193.
The Image of a Tiger in Korean Traditional Painting of Late Chosŏn Period (18th–19th Centuries): Issues of Iconography. Decorative Art and the Object-Spatial Environment: Bulletin of Stroganov Russian State Academy of Design and Applied Arts, no. 3, p. 1, 2022, pp. 146–156. https://doi.org/10.37485/1997-4663_2022_3_1_146_156
NFT Art: Dialogues with the Heritage of Avant-Garde and Modernism. Bulletin of the South Ural State University. Ser. Social Sciences and the Humanities, vol. 23, no. 4, 2023, pp. 41–52. (in Russ.). DOI: 10.14529/ssh230405.
Latest Trends in Technologies for Exhibitions in the Museum Environment. Decorative Art and the Object-Spatial Environment. Gerald of the RGHPU, no. 3, pt. 2, 2024, pp. 32–36. https://doi.org/10.37485/1997-4663_2024_3_2_32_36
La «Sorrentinskaja Pravda» un dialogo fra contemporanei. Maksim Gor’kij: ideologie russe e realta italiana. Atti del convegno per il 150 anniversario della nascita di Maksim Gor’kij. UniversItalia, 2020. P. 219–254.
Maxim Gorky and the Artists in Sorrento (Based on the Materials of the Handwritten Magazine “Sorrentinskaya Pravda”. M. Gorky in Italy. On the 150th Anniversary of the Writer's Birth, ed. by O.V. Shugan. St. Petersburg, Symposium Publ., 2021, pp. 402–418.