Timur Fork (born 1986) is a street artist from Moscow. Active participant in the graffiti movement in Russia since the early 2000s. Timur gave preference not to fonts, but to the image of characters. Many of them were captured on the streets of Moscow, Barcelona, Paris and other European cities, also in Osaka, Japan. In 2017, after an injury sustained while painting and more than six months of recovery, Fork rethinks his creation, begins to experiment with forms and new techniques, transferring his street background to canvases. From 2018 to the end of 2020, he lived in Spain, in Barcelona, where he painted extensively and participated in artistic design projects. Currently lives and works in Moscow, actively paints in his studio, continuing to develop his own style.

One of the latest trends in Timur’s art is an increasingly frequent transition from figurative art towards abstractions and experiments with new visual aesthetics, during which a series of his works in the style called “plasticine realism” was born. The idea of the most realistic depiction of compositions made of plasticine was first realized by Timur in 2021 in the work “Plasticine Wolf,” which marked the beginning of his work in a new author’s style. Now the unique style of “plasticine realism” is recognizable in the street art community around the world and is implemented by Fork on canvases, murals and in collaborations with known brands.

In his works, Timur tries to convey perception of reality via humor and cheerfulness, striving to show his vision and attitude to what is happening through the prism of irony and positivity. According to the artist, art is not obliged to burden the viewer with reflections on complex concepts. And joy is not a superficial feeling, but a deep one. That is why he wants to reflect it in every pieces of his works. Each of Timur's artworks contains dynamics and intensity of color to convey a triumphant joy that can go beyond the canvas or fresco and spread, filling the entire space.