Andrei Kushnir, a plein air painter for over thirty years,
has exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the United
States. His works have been shown in exhibitions juried by
curators from the National Gallery of Art, Smithsonian American
Art Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, and the Corcoran Gallery.
He is a signature member of the National Oil and Acrylic
Painters Society, an elected member of the Washington
Society of Landscape Painters, and the Salmagundi Club, NYC,
a US Coast Guard Official Artist, and member of Oil Painters of
America. His work is in the public collections of the US Coast
Guard, DC Commission on Arts and Humanities, University
of Maryland University College, South Florida Community
College’s Museum of Florida’s Art & Culture, the Virginia
Historical Society, the University Club, Washington DC and
in numerous private collections around the world. He is the
only living artist accorded an exhibition at the Virginia Historical
Society. He is also the founder of the Potomac River School of
artists. A book about his work in the Shenandoah Valley will be
published by the George F. Thompson Publishing Co., Staunton,
VA, in 2014.
Articles about the artist have appeared in publications as diverse
as the Nature Conservancy Magazine and the Washington Times
newspaper, and he has been videotaped while painting by the
Arizona Bureau of Tourism and Synavista, both visible on youTube,
as well as by Winchester (VA) 9 Television. He is the owner of
American Painting Fine Art, Washington, DC.
