Roman Muradov
Artist.
http://www.bluebed.net
roman.k.muradov@gmail.com
Clients include:
The New Yorker, the New York Times, Village Voice, Dark Horse Comics, Image Comics, Nobrow Press, Rotopol Press, Empire, D Magazine, Lucidity Press, Loaded, Beeline, Tripwire, Bizzarro Cinema, Exile, Snob Media, Asus, Intel, Caterpillar, Topman.
Awards and Exhibitions:
2013:
Cartoon Art Museum
Townies art show, Gallery 7, The New York Times
Featured in Society of Illustrators show
2012:
3x3 Annual Merit Award
Stumptown Comic Arts Award, nominated for Best Lettering, Best Cartoonist, Best Coloring & Best New Talent.
RGB Gallery (February)
2011:
Best of Show & Best Graphic Novel awards at the Academy of Art Spring Show.
Stumptown Comic Arts Award, nominated for Best Artist.
Two pieces featured in 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 8 (professional & student categories).
Nobrow 6, illustration & comic strip.
Teiera anthology, 8 pages.
Chameleon 2, 8 pages.
2010:
Society of Illustrators award for Antlers.
Centro Civico Cerro Buenavista, Madrid.
Article and interview in BigMag magazine.
Kommissia festival, Moscow.
Cartoon Art Museum artist-in-residence (October).
Academy of Art Spring Show (2 awards for Pancakes).
Creative Quarterly 21 runner-up.
Article and interview in Digital Arts Magazine (November).
2009:
The Lab, San Francisco.
We Art Space, Oakland.
Back to the Picture, San Francisco.
Root Division, San Francisco.
Academy of Art Spring Show (award for Pet My Head).
Project One, San Francisco.
Kommissia festival, Moscow.
Article and interview in Akzia magazine.
2008
:
Mama Buzz, Oakland.
Topman, Moscow.
2007
:
Kommissia festival, Moscow.
2006
:
Kommissia festival, Moscow.
K9 festival, Kiev (best strip award).
Education:
1992 – 2002:
Moscow, School #1262.
2002 – 2007:
Moscow, Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas, Faculty of Oil and Gas Field Development.
2008 - 2011:
San Francisco, Academy of Art University, Illustration MFA.
Professional Experience:
2003:
Lukoil-Kaliningradmorneft, Kaliningrad.
2004:
KBR, London.
2005 - 2007:
Caterpillar (Solar Turbines), Moscow.
2011-present:
Academy of Art University, San Francisco. Art instructor.
2011-2011:
Lolapps Inc, San Francisco. 2D Artist.
2004-present:
Freelance illustrator. Illustration, comics, visual development, graphic design, articles, storyboards, essays, reviews, short fiction and various other projects for a broad range of media.
Languages: Russian (fluent), English (fluent).
Computer skills: Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, InDesign and other Creative Suit applications, Microsoft Office.
Personal: Friendly, creative, good-humored.