Aron Zinshtein is a Russian artist, born in Ural Mountains city of Nizhniy Tagil, in 1947. Presently residing in St. Petersburg, Zinshtein has had his work exhibited around the world. He is a graduate of the Ural School of Applied Arts, 1968; the Mukhina Art Academy, Leningrad. 1977, and became a Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR in 1988 and a Member of the Academy of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, in 1994.Aron Zinshtein is a graduate of St. Petersburg's Mukhina Art Academy and has exhibited at more than 30 solo and 25 group exhibitions in Russia, Europe and the US. Influenced by the German and Russian Expressionists, his paintings transport the viewer to a playful, theatrical world of child-like imagination while retaining the raw expression of his predecessors. His works are in permanent collections of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, Dostoevsky Museum in St. Petersburg, Russian National Library in St. Petersburg, Kiev Museum of Russian Art, Bristol Museum and private collections in Russia, Germany, US, France, US, Italy, Japan and Israel.