Gleb Mikhailovich Vyatkin (1934-2021) - Soviet, Russian artist, painter, muralist and graphic artist. Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (since 1971), member of the Union of Artists of Russia (since 1991). Representative of post-cubism in Soviet and Russian painting.

In 1966 he graduated from the monumental department of the Leningrad Higher Art and Industrial School. V. I. Mukhina (now the St. Petersburg Academy of Art and Industry named after A. L. Stieglitz).
In 1976, in Volgograd, Gleb Vyatkin met with the Italian artist Ernesto Treccani, who invited him to pay a creative visit to Italy. This trip took place in 1977 and became for the artist a "meeting with himself." As the artist himself believed, it was in this year and during this creative trip that “his painting began”.
In 1990 Gleb Vyatkin's works were included in the 50 Years of Soviet Art exposition shown in Barcelona and Madrid. Vyatkin's works were put by the curators of the exhibition on a par with the works of Kandinsky, Larionov, Drevin, Rodchenko, Lentulov, Falk, Andronov, Yegorshina, Lubennikov and other significant artists of the Soviet era.
After 1991, Gleb Vyatkin finally finds recognition in Russia. In subsequent years, the artist participates in more than a hundred exhibitions - both in Russia and abroad - in Italy, Germany, Great Britain, Spain and the USA.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the artist creates his most significant works.
In the 2000s, large-scale retrospective exhibitions are held, works appear at international art auctions and are included in the collections of state museums and private collections.
Currently, the works of Gleb Vyatkin are in the collections of the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), VMII. I. Mashkov, Municipal Art Gallery of Coventry (Great Britain), Saratov Museum. A. N. Radishchev, the Surikov Foundation (Spain), the Seven Winds Foundation (Russia), the N. V. Gogol House Museum (Moscow), the Perm State Art Gallery, the Krasnodar Regional Art Museum. F. A. Kovalenko, as well as in more than fifty significant private collections in Russia, the USA, Spain, Germany, France, Switzerland, Italy, Bolivia, Hungary and other countries.