Born in Leningrad in 1950, Mikhail Magaril received his degree from the Moscow Printing institute. Like many other unofficial Soviet artists of the period, Magaril made his living as a book illustrator collaborating with leading Leningrad publishing houses. In 1990 Mikhail Magaril emigrated to the United States. in 1991 he began working at the Center for Book Arts, New York. in 1998 Magaril founded Summer Garden Editions, a private press devoted to limited editions of his livres d’artiste. The most recent exhibition of his paintings washeld at the Contemporary art Center of Virginia. Mikhail Magaril’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, the State Hermitage Museum, as well as rare book collections of New York Public Library, Library of Congress, Yale, Harvard, and Cornell universities, the British National Library, the Russian National Library, and numerous private collections.
