Vitaly Yekleris

Sverdlovsk, Russia • Born 1970

Vitaly Yekleris is a Russian painter and printmaker known for his refined technique and expressive realism. Born in Sverdlovsk in the Ural Mountain region, he showed artistic talent from an early age and went on to study at the Sverdlovsk Art College. He later attended the prestigious Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture, and Architecture in St. Petersburg, where he earned his Master’s degree in Painting and Printmaking under Professor Y. M. Neprintsev.

Yekleris began his career as a book illustrator before fully dedicating himself to painting. Since the mid-1990s, he has exhibited widely in Russia, Europe, and the United States — including shows in Chattanooga, Tennessee; Düsseldorf and Munich, Germany; and numerous exhibitions throughout Spain in Seville, Cadiz, and Puerto de Santa María.

His work is held in private collections across Russia, Germany, Spain, and the United States.