About Me

Vladimir Nikolaevich Vidineev (born January 10, 1957, Bashkiria) is a Soviet and Russian painter and graphic artist.

Member of the Union of Artists of Russia (since 2000, Painting section).

Member of the International Association of Art — AIAP UNESCO.

Honored Cultural Worker of Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug — Yugra.

Associate Professor at the Department of Fine Arts, Nizhnevartovsk State University (NVSU).

Born in Bashkiria, he grew up and studied in Samara, attending the art studio at the Palace of Pioneers. After eighth grade, he entered the Penza Art School named after K. A. Savitsky. His first teachers were V. I. Khudyakov and A. P. Afanasyev.

From 1975 to 1977, he served in the Soviet Army in the Far East. Since 1979, he has lived and worked in Nizhnevartovsk. He worked as a decorator artist, and from 1987 in the city art workshop. In 2000, he joined the Union of Artists of Russia. Since 2004, he has been an associate professor at NVSU.

Working in the tradition of Russian realism, he explores different genres — portrait, still life, narrative painting — but landscape holds a special place in his art. A master of quick plein air studies, he paints from nature in any weather, even at temperatures of −20°C.

Vladimir Vidineev's paintings are filled with pensive dreaminess, expectation, and hope. They breathe freshness and a clear purity of color.

He has participated in regional, national, and international exhibitions: Moscow (Central House of Artists — "60 Years of Victory"), Union of Artists Exhibition Hall on Begovaya, "Ural-X" (Chelyabinsk), "Artists of Yugra" (Tyumen), European plein air (Zagreb, Hungary).

His works are held in the State Art Museum (Khanty-Mansiysk), the Nizhnevartovsk Museum of Local History, the Museum of Nature and Man, museums in Megion and Langepas, Zalaegerszeg (Hungary), and in private collections in Russia and abroad.