Student of the Academy of Arts from 1907 to 1912 he Received for the painting "Autumn", the title of the artist and overseas pensionerstvo for 2 years. (Kondakov)
Member of traveling exhibitions, a member of the society. A. I. Kuindzhi, Fellowship of South Russian artists.
(1887,.The Adrianople Ekaterinoslav province – 1929, Leningrad)
Painter, graphic artist. Born into a peasant family. Of the four still gifted in the arts children Kolesnikov, the father sent "from the farm" only two: the older Stepan – future fashion of the painter to be awarded the king's cigarette case, and a younger Ivan.
Kolesnikov studied at the Odessa art school (1901 – 1907), then in Academy of arts (1907)..N. Dubovsky, A. A. Kiselyov.
Traveled in France and Spain (1913 – 1914).
Participated in exhibitions since 1904. Among his early paintings, mainly landscapes and genre paintings.
After the October revolution was a member of AHRR (1923 – 1929). Executed watercolors, posters, drawings for the Leningrad "Krasnaya Gazeta", designed books. I. F. Kolesnikov was exhibited at international exhibitions (Munich, Berlin, Cologne). His works are in GIII, Dnipropetrovsk UM, OC Kirov, Voronezh OMIYA and other museums around the country.