Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid: Komar (b.1943) and Melamid (b.1945) are Moscow–born conceptualist artists who emigrated to the United States in 1978 and live and work in New York. They are the founders of the Sots–Art movement, a critical, conceptual form of Pop art, based on capitalist commercial advertisement in combination with the principles of Dadaism. Their art was always ironic, sarcastic, and sometimes grotesque. Their works are in the collections of Albertina, Israel Museum, Ludwig Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Stedelijk Museum, Zimmerli Museum of Art, Rutgers University, The Pushkin Museum, Tel Aviv Museum, The Victoria and Albert Museum (London), among others.

Alexey Kallima: (b.1969) in Grozny, Chechnya. He graduated from the Krasnodar college of Fine Arts. He became one of the most radical contemporary Russian artists because he worked with the horrifying theme of the Chechen War which the majority of Russian artists prefer to avoid. His works have been exhibited at the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, Russia), the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia), the Louvre (Paris, France), as well as in many museums and galleries in Great Britain, Belgium, Germany, Poland, USA, France, and the Czech Republic.

Vladimir Dubosarsky and Alexander Vinogradov: Dubosarsky (b.1963) and Vinogradov (b.1964 ) are a well–known contemporary Russian art duo; they worked together from 1994 to 2014. Their works are in the collections of The State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), The State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (Durham), and The Museum of Fine Arts (Houston).

Constantin Batynkov: (b.1959) is a contemporary Russian artist who he lives and works in Moscow. Since 1985, he has been a participant in the art group Mitki. He is a member of the International Union of Artists IFA. His works are in the collections of The State Tretyakov Gallery, Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, and The New Museum in St. Petersburg.