Vladimir Chernyshev was born in 1992 in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia.
Vladimir participated in the Manifesta European Biennale of Contemporary Art and in the Moscow International Biennale of Young Art, he was included in the long and short lists of the Russian awards in the field of contemporary art. In 2017 he won a grant from the Garage Museum, and in 2021 he was a finalist in the category Young Artist. Project of the Year of the Kandinsky Prize. Vladimir has participated in number of solo and group exhibitions across Europe, including the European Nomadic Biennial Manifesta (2014).
One of the most prominent projects illustrating this approach of Chernyshev's practice is the so-called 'Suburban Practices' (from 2013 onwards) It comprises works mostly located near Nizhny Novgorod in a largely abandoned, semi-demolished, unnamed summerhouse community. Spread around the garden, in one way or another, the drawings and installations address the ongoing disappearance of a cultural landscape; many of the works themselves have already disappeared. Most of the structures in the summer gardens had in the past a practical purpose (low barns, tool sheds, tiny occasional summerhouses, empty buildings with just one window and one door) These buildings share an important attribute, dictated by their function — they are temporary. The same attribute is shared by the drawings and installations scattered throughout the gardens. Replicating the cycles of nature, these artworks slowly dissolve into their natural surroundings, immersed in forest and the verdant greenery of wild gardens, gradually returning to the natural chaos.