Sergey Nikolayevich Andriyaka

Sergey Nikolayevich Andriyaka – a Soviet and Russian watercolor painter and educator, a full member of the Russian Academy of Arts (2007). Founder and head of the Sergey Andriyaka School of Watercolor, founder and rector of the Sergey Andriyaka Academy of Watercolor and Fine Arts. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (2005).

  

His artistic path began at the age of six under the guidance of his father, Nikolai Ivanovich Andriyaka. Further education continued at the art school affiliated with the Surikov Institute, also headed by his father. In 1976 he entered the Surikov Moscow State Art Institute, Faculty of Painting, and in 1982 he defended his diploma work "On the Kulikovo Field. Eternal Memory".

 

From 1982 to 1985 Andriyaka worked in the Creative Workshops of the USSR Academy of Arts; in 1983 he joined the Union of Artists of the USSR. In 1999 he founded his famous School of Watercolor, which later became a separate structural subdivision of the Sergey Andriyaka Academy of Watercolor and Fine Arts that he had established, opened in September 2012. From September 2012 a series of his authorial programs "Drawing Lessons with Sergey Andriyaka" aired on the "Kultura" TV channel. Andriyaka was a member of the expert council for the "Art" direction at the Sirius Educational Center and in 2017, together with Daria Fomicheva, founded the scientific-methodological journal Secreta Artis. Sergey Nikolayevich Andriyaka passed away in 2024 in Moscow and was buried at the Danilovskoye Cemetery.