Arkadiy Nasonov (b. 1969 in Sverdlovsk, now Ekaterinburg) is linked to the circle of Medical Hermeneutics group, founded by Pavel Pepperstein in the late 1980s.
Nasonov is most known as founder of an art group “Cloud Commission” (created in 1991 together with D Ligeiros, Т. Detkina and others). As Daria Kurdyukova explains, “The commissioners who joined were given the Cloud Commission forms […] The paperwork of all sorts of offices and commissions was interpreted sarcastically in Nasonov's form sheets – neat pictures were supplemented with industriously drawn comments that preserved the flavor of the Soviet officialdom language but were reduced to absurdity, being turned into some schizophrenic flow of words.”
In 1995 Arkadiy Nasonov with S. Anufriev and A. Sobolev founded TARTU -- poetry society that positioned its poetic experiences in the tradition of Russian school of linguistic structuralism. Nasonov is also an author of a project Gallery of a Single Visitor.
Arkadiy Nasonov had grants and fellowships such as Grant of Dutch Instute in Rome in 2000, fellowship of La Napoule Art Foundation in 2002, 2002-2003 stipend in Kunstlerhaus Worspwede, stipend of BKVB foundation Amsetrdam 2010.
Nasonov’s works are in collections of Rijksmuseum Twenthe in Holland, in Deutschebank collection in Berlin, State center of Contemporary art in Shanghai.