Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Art
Education
Post Graduate Studies, Repin Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
MFA
Repin Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
BFA
The State Art College, Odessa, Ukraine
Selected Awards
2002
Second prize winner, Dutka Foundation, New York, NY
Finalist winner, The Artist’s Magazine competition (animal art category)
Honorable Recognition, the International Portrait Competition, Philadelphia, PA
2001
Medal of the Russian Minister of Culture for exceptional achievements.
1999
Finalist winner, The Artist’s Magazine competition (portrait art category)
1996
Exceptional Merit, the National Portrait Competition, New York, NY
1993
Exceptional Merit New York Portrait Forum, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
1986
Bronze Medal, the National Exhibition, Moscow Russia
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007
Santa Fe Fine Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2006
Pushkin Museum, Odessa, Ukraine
2005
Panov Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2001
Medici Haus Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2000
1100 Madison Gallery, New York, NY
1992
Dow Jones Gallery and Princeton University,, Princeton, NJ
1990-91
Boursheid, Luxemburg
Galerie Kunstlergruppe Experiment, Stuttgart, Germany
Knyphausen Galerie, Neckarrems, Germany
1985
Pushkin State Museum-Preserve, Russia
1984
Artist’s Union Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018/2019
“Holiday Silver & Gold” Soiree
Amsterdam Whitney International Fine Art, Inc.
531 West 25th Street- Ground Floor-Chelsea, New York, NY 10001
2017
The Portrait Project: Artists Portraying Artists, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Walk on White, Lucky Street Gallery, Key West, FL
1998-2016
Annual exhibitions, Art Students League, New York, NY
1997-2015
Annual exhibitions, Chrysalis Gallery, Southampton, NY
2014
Portrait Painting of the 20th Century. Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, Russia
2013
Portrait Project, Alex Adam Gallery, New York, NY
Selected works from the collection of Pushkin museum in Mikhailovskoe, in Art Museum of Great Novgorod, Russia
2012
Dr. M.T. Geoffrey Yea Gallery, St. John University New York, NY
2011
TSKW Art Center, Key West, FL
2010
REAL (ists), Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art, Sarasota, Fl
2002
Dutka Foundation, Salmagundi Club, New York, NY
1999
1100 Madison Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Grant Gallery, New York, NY
1997
The 1997 American Inaugural Exhibition, Washington, DC
1996
National Portrait Competition, New York, NY
1995
East-West Gallery, New York, NY
Polo Gallery Edgewater, NJ
CASE Museum Jersey City, NJ
1994
Kerigma Gallery Ridgewood, NJ
East-West Gallery, New York, NY
Juno Gallery, New York, NY
1993
Ende Gallery, New York, NY
Kerigma Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ
New York Portrait Forum, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY
1989-1990
Art of the Soviet Union, Dusseldorf, Germany
Russian Art, Madrid, Spain
Leningrad School, Helsinki, Finland
Russian Art, Hamburg, Germany
Contemporary Art in USSR, Tokyo, Japan
Auctions
2008-2012
Tiroche Art, Herzlia, Israel (June 2008; January and June 2009, January 2011, 2012)
1989-1990
Drouot, Paris, France (June, November 1989; March, June, November 1990)
Represented By
- Portrait South Inc. Raleigh, NC
- Lucky Street Gallery, Key West, FL
- Art Russia, London, GB
Museums
- Yevgenii Yevtushenko Fine Art Museum, Peredelkino, Moscow District, Russia
- Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts and Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, Russia
- Collection of the Russian Artists Union, Moscow, Russia
- Lenin Museum, Gorki Leninskiye town, Moscow District, Russia
- Museum of Fine Arts in Tomsk, Russia
- Fine Art Museum Saransk, Mordovia
- Pushkin Museum of Odessa, Ukraine
- State Art Museum, Odessa
- Stakhanov Art Museum, Ukraine
- Bukhanchuk Fine Art Museum , Kmitiv Town, Zhitomirsky District, Ukraine
- National Art Gallery, Chisinau, Moldova
- Museum in Bendery, Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic
Selected Publications and Reviews
- The Portraits of Leonid Gervits by Murat Yellekoev et.al. Chrysalis Gallery, 2015.
- Gervits, L. The Power of Truth The Lines of the League, Fall 2014, pp. 15-17.
- “Leonid Gervits-Russian realist Painter” Brooklyn College Visual Artists Program, Lecture, Brooklyn College ,Boylan Hall,November,10,2011.
- Morozova, T. “Exhibitions in Pushkin Museum” in Materials of the XIII International Conference, Pushkinskie Gory, February 2010, pp. 75-79.(in Russian)
- Ergeeva,E. “Art of Leonid Gervits” Presentation at the XII International Conference in the N.Roerich Museum, Odessa, Ukraine, October 2009. ( In Russian)
- Siple, M. “Painting Like the Old Masters” in American Artists, July 2007.
- Sviatogorskaia galereia: sobranie zhivopisi. Vypusk 1. Muzei-zapovednik A.S.Pushkina: selo Mikhailovskoe, 2006. (in Russian)
- “Passazh” magazine, Odessa, Ukraine, November 2003 (In Russian)
- American Artist, November 1996.
- Jewish action, New York, 1995, v.55., p.16
- Ludwigsburger Kreisztzeitung, June 1990 ( In German)
- Sudkurier, Germany, June 1990 ( In German)
- Methods of Teaching Fine Arts, Leningrad (St. Petersburg): Repin’s Institute, Academy of Fine Arts, 1989, issue 3.(In Russian)
- Tvorchestvo” Moscow, March 1988 (In Russian)
- “Kartiny molodykh khudozhnikov” Moskow: Izobrazitelnoe Iskusstvo 1984. (In Russian)
- “Panorama art almanac”. Moscow: Molodaja Gvardiia, 1983 (In Russian)
- “Moskva” November, 1982 (In Russian)
- “Ogonek” Moscow, is.1, 1982 (In Russian)
- Vystavka molodykh sovetskih khudozhnikov”. Ilia Beshkov Gallery, Pleven, Bulgaria
- “Sovetskii soiuz” October, 1982 (In Russian)
- “Avrora” Leningrad (St. Petersburg). May, 1981 (In Russian)
- Khudozhnik, Moscow, March, 1980 (In Russian)
- “Ogonek” Moscow, is.48, 1979 (In Russian)
Principal Catalogues
- REAL(ists), Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art, Sarasota, Florida, 2010
- Leonid Gervits. Chrysalis Gallery, Southampton, 1998
- L’ecole de Leningrad: catalogue. Paris, Nov.-June. 1990, nov. 1989
- Leonid Gervits: CASE Museum, Jersey City, NJ 1993
- Leonig Gervits: catalogue of personal exhibition introduction by E.Sazhina, Leningrad, 1984
Professional Associations
- American Society of Portrait Artists
- Artist Union, St. Petersburg, Russia