Dmitri Plavinsky (Russian: Дмитрий Петрович Плавинский) (28 April 1937 – 1 September 2012) was a Russian-American artist.
Because of his controversial and revolutionary creative output, he was not permitted to join the Moscow Union of Artists—a necessity in order to "officially" work as an artist, sell art, and have a studio under Soviet mandate—until many years later in 1978.
An active member of the nonconformist art community in the Soviet Union, Plavinsky mastered various mediums including painting, etchings, and mixed media.
Plavinsky's artistic themes ranged from origins on earth of the prototypes of fish, reptiles, and other prehistoric animals; to the genesis of primeval cultures, ancient and early Christian states, and the computer era of the twenty-first century.
Since 1957, Plavinsky participated in over a hundred group exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world.