1943   born Vitaly Komar

1945   born Alexander Melamid

Graduated from the Stroganov Art School.
Became distinguished in the 1970s as co-authors-founders of Sotz-Art (Soviet pop-art)

1974   Their Double Portrait destroyed at the Bulldozer Exhibition

1978   Emigrated to the USA through Israel

They are among the most popular Russian artists in the West. Articles about their art have been appearing in the media at the average of more than 2 times a month in the last 15 years. Their works were purchased by the following collections: Museum of Modern Art, Solomon Guggenheim Museum, Metropolitan Museum (New-York), Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam), Museon Israel (Jerusalem), National Gallery (Canberra, Australia), Modern Art Museum (San-Francisco), etc., as well as by the leading private art collectors, such as Peter Ludwig (Germany), Silvester Stallone (USA), etc.

Komar's and Melamid's duet-exhibitions were displayed in the Brooklyn Museum, Attenium in Hartford, Modern Art Museum in Oxford, Museum of Fine Arts in Louvre, etc. All together they showed 60 duet-exhibitions and participated in about 70 group exhibitions. The artists work in various genres and techniques: from classical painting and sculpture to conceptual photography and installations.