Artist Biography





Vladimir
Zhdanov








ABOUT

Multidisciplinary Artist, exploring creative storytelling through painting, animation, film and visual art. Moscow-born, London-based.





Artworks
oil paintings — illustrations — storyboards



I make visual stories about states of mind and small figures under pressure. Blending magical realism with social and political undertones, I use dreamlike imagery to point at real things: the quiet absurdity, subtle magic and latent horrors of the present. Storytelling comes first, so I move across disciplines: oil painting, concept art, posters and comics.











Films
short films — animations — showreel



I make short films about fragile minds, broken routines and people trying to hold themselves together under pressure. Mixing speculative premises with everyday struggle, I move between dark comedy and quiet heartbreak, often drawing from things I've lived through. The story decides the form, so I work across live action and animation.







I blend magical realism with social and political undertones — dreamlike imagery that asks the viewer to sit with the unsettling and the emotionally resonant.

Statement & Bio  
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SELECTED EXHIBITION

“Breath” CICA Museum, South Korea  (2026)
Gardens of Life: Silent Seeds — POSK Gallery, London (2026)




AWARDS & SELECTIONS


Poster Stellars International — Finalist (2025)
Independent Shorts Awards, LA — Finalist (2025)
Lift-Off Sessions, London — Official Selection (2025)



EDUCATION

Kingston University — London 
SVA — New York 
HSE — Moscow






Poster Stellars, International (2025) – Finalist Lift-Off Sessions, London (2025) – Official Selection Independent Shorts Awards, LA (2025) – Finalist






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