Born in the city of Kaluga, Ponomarev began painting at the tender age of five. A year later, the infant reproduced Da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’ and thus his artistic journey began to take definitive shape.

The young artist progressed from painting on walls at his home to entering numerous municipal art competitions based on the theme of space and aviation, inspired by Kaluga’s most venerated resident, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. As time went on, self-taught Ponomarev sharpened his skills proving to be a versatile artist who could with equal technical proficiency and panache reproduce works of a Great Master and similarly create graffiti masterpieces, the latter leading to the artist winning first place in regional competitions.

Encouraged and growing confident with an inherent determination to support his young family, Ponomarev sought to experiment with different mediums to further enrich his work

AWARDS

2001 winner of the first degree in a worldwide competition Mission to Planet Earth
2008-2010 first place in regional competition graffiti
2010 first place in the All-Russian competition of self-portrait "is my contemporary"
2011 YOUTUBE & HYUNDAI MUSICAL SHORTS Finalist

EXHIBITIONS

2011 theater club "Studio" the support of AVTODOM, the official dealer MINI, held a unique performance "Color of light"
2011 Festival of Young Art "Festival of Discovery" exhibition
2011 Moscow Museum of Modern Art Workshop 20'11. Today / Tomorrow
2011 performance "Gastarbeit"

Color of light from Boris Ponomarev on Vimeo.