 He subsequently moved to Moscow, and from 1922 to 1929 studied at VKhUTEMAS, a state art school.In 1927 he began exhibiting and by 1931 he had become a member of IzoBrigada.During the 1920s and 1930s Antonov worked successfully as a textile designer in the monumentalist style, eventually working as an instructor at the Moscow Textile Institute.