1990 in fine arts of the Soviet Union
The year 1990 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.

Events
 Exhibition of works by Vecheslav Zagonek was opened in the Museum of the Academy of Arts in Leningrad.
 Painter Eugene Maltsev was elected chairman of the Leningrad Union of Artists, heading it until 1997.
 Traditional exhibition of Leningrad artists - veterans of the Great Patriotic war was opened in May in the Leningrad Union of Artists.
 Exhibition of works by Abram Grushko (1918–1980) was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists.
 Painter Oleg Eremeev was elected a head of the Repin Institute of Arts.
 Exhibition of works by Ivan Savenko (1924–1987) was opened in the Central House of Artists in Moscow.
 Exhibition of works by 26 Moscow and Leningrad artists was opened in the Leningrad Union of Artists. The participants were Evgenia Antipova, Victor Teterin, Valery Vatenin, Yaroslav Krestovsky, Boris Shamanov, Leonid Tkachenko, German Yegoshin, Vitaly Tulenev, and other artists.
 In Paris, France, successfully passed the new exhibitions and art auctions of Russian paintings L'École de Leningrad. The participants were Evgenia Antipova, Sergei Babkov, Nikolai Baskakov, Zlata Bizova, Olga Bogaevskaya, Lev Bogomolets, Dmitry Buchkin, Piotr Buchkin, Sergei Frolov, Ivan Godlevsky, Abram Grushko, Mikhail Kaneev, Mikhail Kozell, Marina Kozlovskaya, Engels Kozlov, Maya Kopitseva, Boris Korneev, Elena Kostenko, Boris Lavrenko, Anatoli Levitin, Oleg Lomakin, Dmitry Maevsky, Gavriil Malish, Samuil Nevelshtein, Dmitry Oboznenko, Victor Oreshnikov, Victor Otiev, Vladimir Ovchinnikov, Vecheslav Ovchinnikov, Filaret Pakun, Alexander Pushnin, Alexander Romanychev, Lev Russov, Alexander Samokhvalov, Gleb Savinov, Vladimir Sakson, Arseny Semionov, Alexander Shmidt, Igor Skorobogatov, Alexander Tatarenko, German Tatarinov, Victor Teterin, Nikolai Timkov, Mikhail Trufanov, Igor Veselkin, Rostislav Vovkushevsky, Vecheslav Zagonek, and other important Leningrad artists.

Deaths
 May 15 — Porfiry Krylov (), Russian soviet painter and graphic artist, People's Artist of the USSR, Stalin Prize winner, Lenin Prize winner (born 1902).
 May 26 — Varlen Pen (), Soviet Korean painter (born 1914).
 June 1 — Natalia Tkachenko (), Russian soviet painter (born 1908).
 June 22 — Marat Podoksin (), Russian soviet painter (born 1930).
 July 4 — Pavel Utkin (), Russian soviet painter (born 1920).
 August 2 — Vladilen Nikiforov (), Russian soviet painter (born 1930).
 August 6 — Baqi Urmançe (), Tatar soviet painter, sculptor, and graphic artist, People's Artist of the RSFSR (born 1897).
 August 30 — Timofey Ksenofontov (), Russian soviet painter (born 1912).
 October 24 — Boris Maluev (), Russian soviet painter and graphic artist (born 1929).
 November 7 — Stepan Privedentsev (), Russian soviet painter (born 1916).

See also

 List of Russian artists
 List of painters of Leningrad Union of Artists
 Saint Petersburg Union of Artists
 Russian culture

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