| Timeline |
| 1878 |
Born 23 February in Kiev, Ukraine |
| 1890s |
Begins studying at the Kiev Art School |
| 1896 |
Family moves to Kursk |
| 1899 |
Marries Kazimira Zgleits |
| 1904 |
First trip to Moscow |
| 1905 |
Shows Symbolist works in an exhibition in Kursk of Moscow and local artists |
| 1905 |
Works at the Moscow studio school of Fefdor Rerberg (until 1910) |
| 1909 |
Divorces Kazimira, marries Sofia Rafalovich |
| 1910 |
First participates in an exhibition of modern art |
| 1911 |
Exhibits twenty-four works at the Moscow Salon |
| 1912 |
Develops the "New Russian Style" with metallic-looking figures |
| 1913 |
Joins Union of Youth |
| 1914 |
Leaves the Union of Youth, shows at the Paris Indépendants Salon |
| 1915 |
Initiates "Suprematism", a style of painting characterised by flat coloured rectangles and other geometric forms on a white ground. |
| 1916 |
Organises the Supremus society, drafted into the army |
| 1918 |
Moves to Petrograd |
| 1919 |
Returns to Moscow, teaches at Svomas, then moves to Vitebsk to teach at the Art Institute |
| 1920 |
Unovis (Advocates of the New Art) group formed around Malevich at the Vitebsk school |
| 1924 |
Appointed director of the Leningrad Institute of Artistic Culture,and heads the Formal and Theoretical Section of the research studios there |
| 1926 |
Removed as direct of the institute |
| 1927 |
Travels to Warsaw and Berlin |
| 1928 |
Begins to teach part time at the Kiev Art Institute |
| 1933 |
Becomes ill |
| 1935 |
Dies at home
in Leningrad on 15 May |
