Born
in the village of Mikjaliovo, Kalinin region, 1941
Studied in the Moscow Art School, 1951-1961
Studied in the Moscow
High Institute of Art and Design (former Stroganovsky), department of
sculpture, 1961
and 1964-I969
Member of the Moscow
Union of Artists, 1972
Emigrated to Austria, 1979
Since 1980, lives and
works in New York
SELECTED ONE MAN SHOWS
| 1976 |
One-day
exhibition. Exhibition Hall of the Moscow Union of Artists on Begovaja
str. 7, Moscow |
| 1983 |
Question
and Exclamation. Storefront Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1985 |
Sculpted
Soviets. Storefront Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1986 |
Semaphore
Gallery, New York, NY |
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A&P
Gallery, New York, NY |
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Zeus-Trabia
Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1987 |
Glasnost.
Zeus-Trabia Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1988 |
Trabia-MacAfee
Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1990 |
Eduard
Nakhamkin Fine Arts, New York, NY |
| 1991 |
Galeria
Carini, Florence |
| 1992 |
Berman
Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1994 |
Berman
Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1995 |
Farsettiarte,
Prato |
| 1997 |
Galeria
Severiarte, Bologna |
| 1999 |
Palais
des Nations, Geneva |
| 2001 |
The
Shadows of 20th
Century Sculpture. 49-я Венецианская биеннале,
Pavilion of Russia, Venice
|
| 2004 |
The
Albright College
Cultural Center, Reading, PA |
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
| 1976 |
Group
show in the L.Sokov's srudio, Moscow |
| 1977 |
La
nuova arte sovietica. Una prospettiva non
ufficiale. Palazzetto dello sport all'Arsenale, Venice
|
| 1978 |
Rassegna
sul dissenso culturale nell' Est
europeo. Scuola cantonale di commercio, Bellinzona |
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La
nuova arte sovietica. Una prospettiva non
ufficiale. Palazzo Madama, Turin |
| 1979 |
20
Jahre unabhangige Kunst aus der Sowietunion.
Museum Bochum, Bochum |
| 1981 |
Nouvelles
Tendances de l'Art Russe non official.
1970-1980. Les Centre culturel de la Villedieu, Villedieu |
|
25
Years of Soviet Unofficial Art. 1956-1981.
C.A.S.E. Museum of Soviet Unofficial Art, Cremona Foundation, Jersey
City, NJ
|
| 1981-82 |
Russian
New Wave. Contemporary Russian Art
Center of America, New York, NY |
| 1982-84 |
Russian
Samizdat Art. Franklin Furnace Gallery,
New York, NY
- Visual Studies Workshop, Рочестер, New York, NY
- Chappaqua Gallery, Westchester, NY
- Washington Project for the Arts,Washington DC
- Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
- Anderson Gallery, Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.
Exhibition was also shown in the Hewlett Gallery, Carnegy-Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, PA; the LACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1983 |
Come
Yesturday and You`ll be First! City without
Walls: an Urban Artists Collective Inc., Newark, NJ
- Contemporary Russian Art Center of America, New York, NY |
| 1984 |
Russian
Mock-Heroic Style. Semaphore Gallery,
New York, NY
New Portrait. P.S.1 Museum, Long Island, NY
East-Europian Show. No Se No Gallery, New York, NY - Nico Smith
Gallery, New York, NY
Micro Show. NOW gallery, New York, NY
Les Russes au present. Le centre culturel de la Villedieu, Villedieu |
| 1985 |
Surrealist
Brunch. No Se No Gallery, New York,
NY - Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY
Monsters Show. Nico Smith Gallery, New York, NY
New Sculpture. NOW Gallery, New York, NY
Eastern Europeans in New York. La Galeria en Behio, New York, NY - St.
Mark's Gallery, New York, NY
Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY
Microwave. NOW Gallery, New York, NY - A&P Gallery, New York, NY
Sculpture. No Se No Gallery, New York, NY - A&P Gallery, New
York,
NY |
| 1986 |
The
Rivingston School. 1st Street Gallery, New York,
NY
Dolls' Show. Art Gallery of
Long Island University, New York, NY
Russia: Dreams and
Realities. Zeus-Trabia Gallery, New York, NY
Sculpture Garden.
Zeus-Trabia Gallery, New York, NY
Church and State.
Zeus-Trabia Gallery, New York, NY
Transculture, Transmedia.
Exit Art, New York, NY
Sots Art. New Museum of
Contemporary Art, New York, NY |
| 1987 |
New
Voices. Pondo del Sol, Washington DC
Art on the Beach. Hunter's
Point, New York, NY
Retrospection, 1957-1987.
Painting.
The "Hermitage" Association, Exhibition Hall on Profsoiuznaja Street,
100, Moscow
|
| 1988 |
Birds
and Beasts? Home Box Office, New York, NY
Vital Signs. Main Street
Windows, New York, NY
|
| 1990 |
Transit:
Russian Artists Between the East and West. Eduard
Nakhamkin Fine Arts, New York, NY
- Pine Arts Museum of Long
Island, NY
- State Russian Museum, Leningrad
- State Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow Logic of Paradox.
Moscow
- Palace of Youth, Towards the Object.
«Sadovniki» Gallery (exhibition hall of
Krasnogvardeiskij
district), Moscow
|
| 1990-91 |
The
Other Art. Moscow 1956-1976. State Tretyakov Gallery,
Moscow - State Russian Museum, Leningrad
|
| 1991 |
Back
to Square One. Berman - E.N. Gallery, New York, NY
Soviet Contemporary Art -
From Thaw to Perestroika. Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
|
| 1993 |
Coca-Cola.
Galeria Bianca Pilat, Rome |
| 1993-94 |
After
Perestroika: Kitchenmaids or Stateswomen. Le Centre
international d'art de Montreal, Montreal
- Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
-
DePree Art Center and Gallery, Hope College, Holland, MI
- Western Gallery, Western Washington
University, Bellingham, WA
- Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross,
Worcester,
MA |
| 1994 |
Cetinjski
Bienale II. Vladin Dom, Cetinje |
| 1994-98 |
Elvis
+ Marilyn: 2 x Immortal. Institute of Contemporary Art,
Bosron
- Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, PA
- Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC
- Columbus
Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
- Baltimore Museum of Arts, Baltimore, MD
- Honolulu Academy of
Arts, Honolulu, HI
- Hokkaido-Obihiro Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan
- Daimaru Museum,
Umeda, Osaka.
Exhibition
was also shown in other museums in USA and Japan |
| 1995 |
Kunst
im verborgenen. Nonkonformisten Russland 1957-1995.
Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Luswigshaven
- Documenta-Halle, Kassel
-
Staatliches Lindenau Museum, Altenburg Kraeftmesse. Eine
Ausstellung ost-oestlicher Positionen innerhalb der westlichen Welt.
Kunstlerwerkstatt, Munich |
| 1999 |
It's
the Real Thing. Soviet and Post-Soviet Sots-Art and American
Pop-Art. The Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN
|
| 2000 |
Contemporary
Russian Masters. Part 2. Sloane Gallery of Art,
Denver, CO
Cold War - Hot Culture. The
International Festival of Russian Arts and Culture. University of
Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Exposition of the permanent
collection of 20th century art. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
|
| 2003 |
MARS
- Art and War. Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum,
Graz
Ortstermin Moskau - 1970 und
die Zeit danach. Sandmann, Berlin
Remembrance: Russian Post-Modern
Nostalgia. Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY
|
| 2003-04 |
Moscow
- Берлин. Berlin - Moskau. Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
- State Historica Museum, Moscow
|
| 2004 |
A
Grain of Dust. A Drop of Water. 5th Gwangju Biennal. Gwangju |
| 2004-05 |
The
Seven Sins. Moderna Galerija Liubliana, Liubliana |
| 2005 |
Schatten
und Licht in der zeitgenössischen kunst. Kunsthalle
zu Kiel der Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel Moscow
Grafika: Artists'
Prints 1961 - 2005. Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian
and Eastern European Art.
International Print Center New York, NY
Remembrance: Russian
Post-Modern Nostalgia. Grossman Gallery, Williams Visual Arts Building,
Easton, PA
Russian Pop Art. State
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
| 2005-06 |
Essence
of Life - Essence of Art. Ludwig Museum (Museum of
Contemporary Art), Budapest
- State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
- State Russian Museum, Petersburg
Russia! Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
- Museo Guggenheim
de Arte Moderno y Contemporaneo, Bilbao
Schattenspiel - Eine Hommage an Hans Christian Andersen. Landesgalerie
am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz |
| 2006 |
Masters
of Humor & Satire. Sloane Gallery of Art, Denver, CO
Artists Against the State:
Perestroika Revisited. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
|
| 2006 |
Russian
Art: Then and Now, Ober Gallery, Kent, CT |
| 2006-07 |
Territories
of Terror: Mythologies and Memories of the Gulag
in Contemporary Russian-American Art. Boston University Art
Gallery, Boston, MA
|
| 2007 |
Bare
Life. Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
Соц-арт. Политическое
искусство в России. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
- La maison rouge,
Paris
Attitude 2007. Contemporary
Art Museum, Kumamoto
|
| 2008 |
Moscow
- New York = Parallel Play. Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
Die totale Aufklärung.
Moskauer Konzeptkunst. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
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COLLECTIONS
| Metropolitan Museum of Art |
| Guggenheim Museum |
| Russian Museum |
| Tretyakov Gallery |
| Centre Georges Pompidou |
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