Vyacheslav Kalinin (1939-2022) - Soviet and American artist and graphic artist. Since 1991 he has lived in the USA.

He graduated from the Abramtsevo Art School, he learned the main thing himself, being carried away either by Durer's graphics, or by painting by Vrubel and Cranach. Teachers I. V. Toporkov, M. V. Rozanova.
Original master of Moscow "unofficial art". The most characteristic are his paintings of the 1960s and 1970s on the themes of the life of the "underground" bohemia, written in the spirit of carnivalism.
He worked in the workshop of Oscar Rabin.
In the 1960s he entered the Lianozovsky circle, in the workshop of Oscar Rabin, where he met E. L. Kropivnitsky, V. Ya. Sitnikov, A. T. Zverev, V. Yakovlev, as well as G. Kostaki and other art collectors nonconformists.
A group of Moscow artists - "avant-garde", including Vyacheslav Kalinin, was united in the so-called creative "twenty". It included Vladimir Nemukhin, Otari Kandaurov, Igor Kamenev, Dmitry Plavinsky, Kirill Prozorovsky-Remennikov, Oscar Rabin, Dmitry Krasnopevtsev, Alexander Kharitonov and other artists.
In 1991, Kalinin and his family moved to Los Angeles, USA, where he began working with galleries.
Solo exhibitions were held in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Barbara, Basel (Switzerland), Italy, France, Germany, etc.
Kalinin's paintings are presented in the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, in the largest museums in the world, Museum of Modern Art - New York, USA; Metropolitan Museum - New York, USA; State Museum of Modern Art, Georges Pompidou Center - Paris, France; Bochum Museum - Bochum, Germany; Ludwig Forum of International Art - Aachen, Germany; Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, Rutgers University - New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.