Yakov Khomich

Education

1997
Lives and works in Moscow

2023 VGIK. Specialty "Painting", qualification "Film and Television Artist, combined filming artist"

Solo exhibitions

Group exhibitions

Art Fairs

Works are in private collections in the USA, Europe, China and Russia.

Biography

Yakov Khomich, born 1997

A contemporary artist based in France and Russia.

Yakov has been immersed in art since childhood; his father and brother are artists, and family visits to museums were a common occurrence. A school with a focus on the arts and a rich atmosphere of creativity shaped his worldview. After developing a broad range of visual experiences, including those in cinema, he enrolled in one of the country’s top film schools, although he chose to focus on painting. In 2019, a turning point came: breaking free from academic conventions, Yakov began a series of painting experiments that continues to this day.

Everything Yakov creates can be described with one word — eclecticism. He strives to absorb everything that painting has to offer — he enjoys playing with different approaches and seeks to create something unique at their intersection.

Yakov debuted in 2019 with his first exhibition in Moscow and has participated in some of the most prominent art fairs in Russia: Blazar (2023) and Cosmoscow (2024). He is actively garnering attention from international institutions (Barcelona) and private collectors in the USA and Europe.

Statement

My work emerges from a process of intuitive exploration. Rather than following a fixed concept or style, I begin with an internal impulse — a vague sense, image, or memory — and allow the painting to take shape through the act of making.

Much of what I do is rooted in observing human behavior, childhood narratives, and fragments of cultural memory. These elements often surface in the form of archetypal figures or scenes that feel both personal and collectively recognizable.

I'm interested in how symbols, gestures, and familiar motifs can carry emotional or psychological weight without being tied to a single reading. Each new series becomes an attempt to find a visual language that fits the subject — not by illustrating it, but by uncovering something essential about how it feels.

I see painting as a way to access the subconscious and bring to the surface things that resist straightforward description: moods, tensions, traces of stories we carry without realizing.

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