Vitaliy Nikolayevich Bubentsov (Russian: Виталий Бубенцов; born February 12, 1944, Murmansk) is a Russian artist working in the genres of portrait, landscape, still-life and thematic picture executed in various techniques. He is an honored artist of the Russian Federation, a member of the Artists’ Union of Russia, a member of the International Association of Visual Art AIAP, UNESCO. Biography He was born in 1944 in Murmansk city. Since 1969 he has been regularly participating in All-Union, republican, district and regional art exhibitions. He is a participant of foreign exhibitions in Finland, Norway, Sweden, the United States, Denmark, the Netherlands. He lives and works in Murmansk. Education Has left Leningrad Art School named after V. A. Serov in 1963 and Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I. E. Repin in 1972. Solo exhibitions 1978 — Solo exhibition (Murmansk, Russia), solo exhibition (Rovaniemi, Finland) 1986 — Solo exhibition (Lulea, Sweden) 1990 — Solo exhibition (Murmansk, Russia) 1991 — Solo exhibition (Ide Gallery, the Netherlands) 1993 — Solo exhibition (Rovaniemi, Finland) 1994 — Solo exhibition (the Netherlands) 1996 — Solo exhibition (Murmansk, Russia), solo exhibition (Pskov, Russia) 1997 — Solo exhibition (Murmansk, Russia) 1998 — Solo exhibition (Murmansk, Russia) 2001 — Solo exhibition (Murmansk, Russia) 2004 — Solo exhibition (the International Artists Studio in Vadsyo, Norway), solo anniversary exhibition (Murmansk, Russia) 2005 — Solo exhibition (Murmansk, Russia) 2008 — Solo exhibition «Vitaliy Bubentsov in Groningen» (Museum on Shipping History in Groningen, the Netherlands) Group exhibitions 1972 — Republican exhibition «Around the Native Country» (Moscow, Russia) 1974 — The 4th zonal exhibition «The Soviet North» (Vologda, Russia) 1977 — «The Youth of Russia» (Moscow, Russia), «The Artists of Russia to Fishermen» (Astrakhan - Kaliningrad – Murmansk – Moscow), All-Union exhibition «The Youth of the Country » (Moscow, Russia), All-Union exhibition of monumental art (Kazan, Russia), group ex hibition of works of participants of All-Union creative team of marine painters (Arkhangelsk, Russia) 1978 — All-Union exhibition «The Native Country » (Minsk, Belarus), All-Union water color exhibition (Moscow, Russia) 1979 — The 5th zonal exhibition «The Soviet North» (Syktyvkar, Russia), All-Union exhibition «Blue Roads of the Motherland» (Moscow, Russia) 1980 — Republican exhibition «The Nature and We» (Moscow – Leningrad - Murmansk) 1981 — «Around the Native Country» (Moscow, Russia), the 7th All-Union water color exhibition (Moscow, Russia) 1983 — The 3rd All-Russian exhibition «Drawing and Water Color» (Leningrad, Russia), «Blue Scopes of