Guennadi Kalinine


Guennadi Kalinine was born in Russia in 1957 in the town of Zelenodolsk near Kazan. He graduated from the Art College of Kazan and has a BA in History from Kazan State University. Later, for 15 years he instructed courses on computer graphic design. Also, a passionate artist producing dynamic landscapes and traditional orthodox icon paintings.

Guennadi immigrated to Canada in 2003, started a career of full-time artist and founded a GK Studio in downtown Dundas, Ontario. Guennadi is also a co-owner of McMaster Gallery with Bert Dorpmans and Stephen Landers. He teaches several courses on drawing and painting at the Dundas Valley School of Art.

Since 2003 he has participated in 14 group exhibitions and 5 solo art shows. He was a finalist of International Artist magazine art competition of February/March 2010 and feature artist of October/November 2010. There also were many articles about his work in local and nationwide press: “Hamilton Spectator”, “Arabella” magazine, “Hamilton” magazine, Bluecanvas magazine and others.

Website www.gkstudio.ca and www.mcmastergallery.ca .