Van O (Ivan Isaev) was born at 1975 in Moscow, Russia, graduated the biological faculty of the Moscow State University and the School of dramatic art of An. Vasiliev. He worked as the actor at the theaters "Dance-model" and "Mystery of costume", as the club designer– created the collections of vanguard fashion. Art-photographer since 1999, the member of Russian Union of Art Photographers since 2009 and of the Creative Union of Russian Artists since 2015. Works are in the collections of Russian museum of St. Petersburg, Erarta Museum of contemporary art and private collections. The winner of the "Heroes" contest -Marler Kunststern,2017; prize winner "From Selfie to Self-Expression" contest, Saatchi gallery,2017; prize winner of Bio-Art Contest, Seoul, 2018. 

     Selected exibitions:
“Pan-opticum"– Erarta Contemporary Art Museum, St.-Petersburg, 2022
"Red gates/Against the stream"– Moscow House of Artist , 2020
"About laziness"– Artplay centre, Moscow, 2019.
"Red gates/Against the stream"– Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, 2018
”Developing a genre/interior" – Museum of Actual Realism,Toliatti, 2018
"The Essential"– Millepiani Gallery, Rome, 2018.
 Bio-Art Contest/" Food and Feed ", Seoul, 2018.
"Actual Russia/Рlaing Classics" – Museum of Decorative and Applied Art, Moscow, 2017.
„Heroes“– Marler Kunststern, Marl, 2017.
«City landscape / Developing a genre" – the Volga art gallery, Toliatti, 2017
"From Selfie to Self-Expression"– Saatchi gallery, London, 2017
"Red gates/Against the stream"– Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, 2016
 “Science and art”– ”Na Kashirke” gallery, Moscow, 2015
“Crex,fex,pex”– Literature State Museum, Moscow, 2015
”Yellow Submarine”– Central House of Artists, Moscow,2015
”The original fake”– Darwin museum, Moscow, 2012
The II Museum photobienalle–The Russian Museum, St.-Petersburg, 2012
”New Angelarium”– Moscow Museum of  Modern Art, 2007
”Power”– Moscow Museum of  Modern Art, 2007
”Artgraphic”– New Manege, Moscow, 2006
”The Money defeat the Evil“– VHUTEMAS gallery, Moscow, 2004
    The winner of the "Heroes" contest – Marler Kunststern, 2017; finalist "From Selfie to Self-Expression" contest, Saatchi gallery, 2017; prize winner of Bio-Art Contest "Food and Feed", Seoul, 2018.