Iosif Solomonovič Shkolnik (30 November 1883, Balta – 26 August 1926, Leningrad) was a painter and set designer from the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union.

Mikhail Matyushin, Aleksei Kruchenykh, Pavel Filonov, Shkolnik, Kazimir Malevich, 1913 (photograph by Karl Bulla)

He studied at the Grekov Odessa Art school.

In 1908 he exhibited in the New Trends in Art exhibition.[1]

He was one of the co-founders of Soyuz Molodyozhi (Union of Youth). He worked with Pavel Filonov on the design of the set for Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy, a play staged by the futurists on 2 December 1913.[2]

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  1. ^ Wünsche, Isabel (2017). The Organic School of the Russian Avant-Garde: Nature's Creative Principles. Routledge. ISBN 9781351541787.
  2. ^ Gourianova, Nina (2012). The Aesthetics of Anarchy: Art and Ideology in the Early Russian Avant-Garde. Univ of California Press. ISBN 9780520268760. Retrieved 24 December 2018.