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  My name is Andrey Lipatov. I'm a self-taught painter from Ukraine.I was born in 1960 in the family of a military service-man in Kolomna near Moscow, Russia.
 Since 1966, I live in Kirovograd, Ukraine.
 During training in a Technic University, I was fascinated by caricature and graphic arts. I had publications in press.
 After graduating, I worked on factory of hidropumps by a designer-engineer.
 Having no formal art training, I started painting in 1993.
 Since from this time, I took part in many exhibitions in Ukraine, Russia and France. The most important for me:
 Personal1993 Art Gallery, Kirovograd, Ukraine
 1995 Chizhevsky Library, Kirovograd, Ukraine
 1996 Folk Art Centre, Odessa, Ukraine
 1998 Art Gallery LADA, Kiev, Ukraine
 1999 Osmierkin`s Museum, Kirovograd, Ukraine
 2000 Museum of Naive Art, Moscow, Russia
 2001 Art Gallery DAR, Moscow, Russia
 
 Collective  1997   The 1st All Ukrainian Triennal of Naive Art, Kiev, Ukraine
 1997 National Exhibition of Folk Art, Kiev, Ukraine
 2002 The 7st Internet International Art/Photo Contest,
 Yokohama, Japan ( prizer )
 2002 Charitable Exhibition, Art Museum, Cherkassy, Ukraine
 2003 Circle of friends, Chizhevsky Library, Kirovograd, Ukraine
 2004 Kirovograd in paints, Art Museum, Kirovograd, Ukraine
 2005 All Ukrainian Exhibition of Naive Art, Kiev, Ukraine
 2006 4th Biennale of Naive Art, Andresy, France
 2006  2st Festival of Naive Art, Verneuil sur Avre, France
 2006 Peintres de la Lumiere, Marseille, France2007 International Salon of Naive Art, Auffay, France
 2007 3rd Festival of Naive Art, Verneuil sur Avre, France 2007 Cambridgeshire Art Fair, Linton, UK         2007 3 International Plenair, Humenne, Slovakia   
 
 2007 – Les
Naïfs miniaturists, Musée MAN, Béraut,
 France
 
 
 2007 - EE Fine Art Gallery,
Cambridge, U.K., ”Grand Opening Exhibition”
 
 
 2007 - 12th
Salon Diogenes Taborda,  Buenos Aires, Argentina.
 
 
 2007 -  2nd
International Festival of Naive and Outsider Art, Moscow, Russia
 
 
   
 
                                                      I'm a member of Ukrainian Association of Folk Art with 1998.
 
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