​Kirill Kipyatkov was born in 1987 in Veliky Novgorod.
In 2010 he graduated from St.Petersburg Stiglitz Academy of Art and Industry, the Department of Painting and Restoration of Academician D.A.Shuvalov, diploma with honors.

In 2018-2019, he completed a course at the Free Workshops school of MMOMA, Moscow.
He lives and works in Moscow.
He has been working with Luch Gallery since 2010. ​

In his work Kirill Kipitkov combines abstract and figurative painting. Two main themes - a human being and his/her activities - constantly attract the author as area of physical activity, imbodied in series of paintings dedicated to work and leisure.

The most famous theme of the artist is sports. It is represented in a big series of paintings "The Colors of Sports", which was presented at exhibitions in Russa (Moscow, St.Petersburg, Sochi ets) and abroad (Hong Kong, South Korea, Switzerland).

The artist works in traditional painting techniques, but he also uses wood, aluminum and pure pigments in his works. He is the first artist in Russia who systematically and regularly works with reflective materials in art, he uses reflective fabric and reeflective particles as the basis for his painting. Thus, he creates a special optical effect in his works, which look different in different lighting.
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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2023 Flash. Luch Gallery, Moscow
2022 Sky and sea. Luch Gallery, Moscow
2018, 2017, 2016 "Transport of Russia". Gostiniy Dvor, Moscow
2016 In Movement. Omelchenko gallery, Moscow
2016 Gallery "IZO. Romanov Dvor", Moscow
2016 holding "Gazprom-Export", Moscow
2016 Contemporary Art Center "Varochniy Zeh", Moscow
2014 Solo Exhibition as part of the cultural program of the anniversary year "200 years of diplomatic relations between Russia and Switzerland". Basel Art Center. Basel, Switzerland
2014 An exhibition in time of XXII Winter Olympic games. Southern federal training center of The Ministry of Sport Russian. Sochi
2013 Two public solo show in time of XXVII Universiada. Kazan
2013 Presentation of the paintings at The International Exhibition "SPORT". Russian Exhibition Centre, Moscow
2012 The Colors of the Sports. The Central museum of Sport of The Ministry of Sport Russian Federation, Moscow
2011 The Colors of the Sports. The Sport Committee of the government of St.Petersburg

Kipyatkov's paintings can be divided into several large thematic series: sports, agriculture, railway, sea, workers, which immediately recalls memories of exhibitions of the Soviet era. At that time, such topics as labor, military and revolutionary history, the Olympics were presented at grand republican and all–Union expositions of social realism artists who made a successful professional and public career. Nevertheless, Kipyatkov's style, combining figurative painting and abstraction, refers rather to the beginning of the last century. At that time, a number of luminaries of modernism, from Picasso to Malevich, after experiments with abstractionism turned back to various forms of realism.

"Realism" is a word that came back in the names of the wave of exhibitions that swept through metropolitan and provincial Russian museums and galleries in 2016 under the influence of dynamically changing socio-political realities. In this context, the work of the young master is interesting for an art historical analysis.

Kipyatkov's presentation of the main topics differs. For example, the motif of agriculture, an activity immersed in native substances, is naturally presented in the most abstract manner. Here, the space ripples after Malevich, shimmers and chirps after Khlebnikov ("Rural Cosmos", "Russian Women", "Ploughmen"), or on the contrary, painting is reduced to lapidary and clearly organized forms ("Sprouts", "Nest", "Harvest"). The disciplined technical world of the railway is constructed by rhythmic way in plastic, reminiscent of Matyushin's color forms (Series "Railway"). The theme of the sea is presented in the most figurative and, at the same time, romantic way, making us to recall the Soviet book illustration and textile design of the 1920s ("Dreams", the series "Icebreakers" and "Tankers").

Indeed, Kipyatkov's painting, which operates with a rich artistic heritage of various styles and schools, provides a vast field of associations for the art historian. They go from Art Nouveau and Klimt, to Suprematism and Filonov, and further through Labas and Deineka, to the post-war painting of Paris school and Leningrad art of the "new wave" of the 1980s and 1990s - this list can be refined and continued. But, having such postmodern baggage, Kipyatkov's painting is distinguished from the bulk of contemporary art by the absence of drama, cleverness, a sense of "double bottom" in the work, crisis and critical motives, supposed to be necessary for "actual" art.