1947     Born in Nizhny Tagil, Ural
1968     Graduated from the Ural School of Applied Arts.
1977     Graduated from the Mukhina Art Academy, Leningrad.
1988     Member of the Union of Artists.

1994     Member of the Academy of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg.

Aron Zinshtein’s oil technique could be viewed as a spur-of-the-moment expressionist style. His main interest is portraitpainting, or occasionally any other genre such as cityscape, but filled with human figures. It seems that his enormous artistic energy intertwines with the energetic aura of a model, thus making his painting a success. The spontaneous gesture imprints in the smudges of paint outline the figures with such dynamism that it almost seems as though the figures are being pulled out of the canvas. This deeply emotional painterly substance on the move defines his very unique artistic identity. It’s fascinating how his childish and self-centered style enables a model to convey a personality in paint marked with the artist’s warmth and admiration. There are no mechanically photographically driven bodies, but instead the elevated images of human beings that happen to be the artist’s companions in his earthy life.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS

1982     15 gouaches, Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists, Leningrad

1986     Fyodor Dostoevsky Museum, Leningrad

1988     Graphics, Writers Bookstore on 66 Nevsky prospect, Leningrad

1989     Office of the Avrora magazine, Leningrad

1993     Chateau La Condamine, Grenoble, France; St. Petersburg Museum of City Sculpture; Serebryany Vek Gallery of the Anna Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg

1994     Sous les Voutes du Chateau des Blondes, Sassenage, France; Russian Art    Museum, Kiev

1995     Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists, St. Petersburg; Dialogue Voreppe - St. Petersburg, Villa des Arts, Voreppe, France

1996     Z&M Gallery, Bremen, Germany; Aktuaryus Gallery, Strasburg, France; Hermes Gallery, Solothurn, Switzerland

1997     Gildiya Masterov Gallery, St. Petersburg ; Salon 27th Street, New York, USA

1998     Hermes Gallery, Solothurn, Switzerland; Jewish Communal Centre, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St. Petersburg

1999     Chateau La Condamine, Grenoble; Maison de la Treille Gallery, France

2000     The Anna Alhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg; Chateau des Blondes, Sassenage, Fort Saint Eynard, Grenoble, Villa des Arts, Voreppe, France

2001     Severnaya Stolitsa Gallery, Na Obvodnom Gallery, Jewish Center at Zubov’s Palace, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St. Petersburg

2002     Gildya Masterov Gallery, St. Petersburg; Espace tour Medieval, Morestel, France

2003     Aron Zinshtein - Ein Russischer Maler der Gegentwart, Dortmund, Germany; St. Petersburg of Aron Zinshtein, Surgut Art Gallery; St. Petersburg of Aron Zinshtein, Novosibirsk Art Gallery

2004     Morestel, France; Matiss-Club Gallery, Gildya Masterov Gallery, European Culture University, St. Petersburg

2005     Nonconformist Art Museum “Pushkinskaya,10”, St. Petersburg; Worne Gallery, France; “Family Portrait & Others”. Jewish Communal Centre, St. Petersburg; Lincoln Gallery, Chicago, USA

2006     Jewish Communication Centrum, New York, USA; St. Petersburg of Aron Zinshtein, Primorskaya Art Gallery, Vladivostok

2007     The State Arts Museum of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Almaty, Kazakhstan; "Summer plainair".

Mayakovskogo Public Library, Matiss-Club Gallery, St. Petersburg

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1982     Book illustration in USSR, Perm - Moscow - Leningrad

1987     Handwriting, Palace of Youth, Leningrad

1988     Modern Art of Leningrad. Central Exhibition Hall, Leningrad

1990     Beit, Kirov Palace of Culture, Leningrad; Russian-Swiss Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Paris - Jersualem - London - Zurich - Antwerp - New York - Tokyo

1990     Mahmadim, Contemporary Jewish Art, Dyagilev Center, Leningrad

1992     Period of Transition, Bristol, UK

1993     Petersburg’93, Panorama of Contemporary Art, Central; Dialogues, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St. Petersburg

1994     Anna Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg

1995     Chateau La Condamine, Grenoble, France

1996     Petersburg 96, Panorama of Contemporary Art, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St. Petersburg

1997     19 Artists from St. Petersburg, Hamburg, Judische Galerie, Berlin, Germany

1998     Petersburg 98, Panorama of Contemporary Art, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, “Seasons of a Year in the Black Square of the Stage”, the Hermitage Theatre, St. Petersburg

1999     S.P.A.S.I. Group of Artists, Hermitage, St. Petersburg

2000     “Moscow-Jerusalem”, the Russian Ethnography Museum, St. Petersburg

2001     On Love, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Stuck in the Net, German Consulate, St. Petersburg

2002     Desperate Artists, Mukhina Academy Museum,  Petersburg 02, Panorama of Contemporary Art, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St. Petersburg

2003     Centre Culturel Montrigaud, France. Together with C. Mamet

2003     White Picture, S.P.A.S.I. Group of Artist, St. Petersburg Museum of City Sculpture

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg

City History State Museum, St. Petersburg

S. Dyagilev Center, St. Petersburg

Anna Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg

Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St. Petersburg

Fyodor Dostoevsky Museum, St. Petersburg

Russian National Library, St. Petersburg

Novosibirsk Art Gallery, Russia

Kiev Museum of Russian Art, Ukraine

Khabarovsk Museum of Art, Russia

Irbit Museum of Graphics and Engravings, Russia

Nizhny Tagil Art Gallery, Russia

Bristol Museum, UK

PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

Russia, Germany, USA, France, UK, Italy, Japan, Israel, Kazakhstan