Yaroslav Makarov

Yaroslav Makarov (born 1982, Pikalevo, Russia) is a graphic artist specialising in prints and exlibris. He graduated with honours from the art and graphics faculty of Cherepovets State University in 2005, where he studied with printmaker Dmitry Medvedev.

He began making bookplates in 2004. His practice includes linocut, engraving on plastic and drawing. Architectural subjects appear in his exlibris, including a colour linocut of the Galskoy estate made for the Cherepovets Museum Association in 2021.

That bookplate was exhibited during the 39th FISAE World Congress in San Francisco in 2022. A later print depicting Casale Monferrato's cathedral was selected for the 2024 world exhibition in Palma de Mallorca. Makarov has held solo exhibitions in the Vologda region, Moscow and Aktobe, Kazakhstan, and his works are represented in museum and private collections internationally.