Laptev Yuri Mikhailovich (1962) Contemporary painter. Born in Petropavlovsk (North Kazakhstan) Lives and works in Crimea (Simferopol) Graduated from the Crimean Art School named after N.S. Samokisha, design department, (Simferopol, Ukraine) Worked at the Art Fund of the Ukrainian SSR as a designer specializing in interior design, applied design in the techniques of monumental mosaic, prototyping, stained glass and interior sculpture, easel graphics (etching). Cooperation with foreign IT-firms in the field of WEB design, illustration, conceptual development. Regular participant of exhibitions: reporting exhibitions of the Crimean Association of Artists in Ukraine (works in the etching technique were acquired by the Union of Artists of Ukraine. Kiev), exhibitions of creative associations of Crimea and Simferopol, "Reality and mysticism" (Werkstattgallerie, Heidelberg) Interactive art action, "Formula T "," Point T "in collaboration with R. Kukhar, Simferopol-Kiev, international exhibition" Odessa-Art "under the patronage of the gallery" KEP ", Simferopol Odessa, Ukraine. Works in private collections: Simferopol, Crimea., Odessa, Ukraine., Kiev, Ukraine., Sukhumi, Abkhazia., Moscow, Russia., Heidelberg, Germany., Jersey City, USA.
- 1987-1989 Reporting exhibitions of the Crimean Association of Artists - 1989-1998 Participation in exhibitions of creative associations of Crimea and Simferopol. - 1993 Participation in the exhibition "Reality and Mysticism" (Werkstattgallerie, Heidelberg). - Art interactive action "Point T" in collaboration with Roman Kukhar, Simferopol-Kiev - 1995-2000. - 1998 Participation in the international exhibition "Odessa-Art" under the patronage of the gallery "KEP", Simferopol. - 1998 Participation in the exhibition "Children of Perestroika". Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Jersey, Zalman Gallery, New York. - 1999 Participation in the exhibition "Contemporary Russian Art" (Odessa State Museum to the Art Museum of Contemporary Russian Art in Jersey), USA. - 1999 Participation in the exhibition "Unknown Russia" (Jersey), USA. - 2011 Participation in the exhibition "Traditions and Modernity". Manege, Moscow. - - Moscow State Exhibition Hall "Creativity". - 2011 2nd International Art Festival "Constellation of Visions". Painting, graphics - 2012 "Sunlight", Central House of Artists. - 2013 Exhibition "Worlds and Miracles", Central House of Artists. - Moscow International Art Salon "CHA-2013". - Moscow International Art "SALON CHA'14". - 2014 Exhibition "Crimean Spring", Gostiny Dvor, gallery "Visions Fine art". - 2015 Exhibition “Crimea. Return ”, Moscow Regional Duma. - 2015 Exhibition "Artists of Crimea. Return", Scriabin's house-museum.