BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

1949   Born in Moscow on February 10, in the family of a serviceman. From the age of ten, he attended the Krasnopresnenskaya Art School in addition to a regular school.

1966-72   student at the Moscow Institute of Architecture. After graduating from the Institute, he worked in architectural organizations as well as pursuing drawing and later painting (from the end of the 1970s on).

1979-88   architect and designer at the Monument Complex of the USSR Artistic Foundation

From 1976 onwards, he exhibited his works in a basement on the Malaya Gruzinskaya Street, where they were noticed by New York dealers and collectors in the autumn of 1985.

From 1987 onwards, his paintings began to be widely exhibited in the USA and then in Western Europe and Russia.

16 personal exhibitions. He participated on numerous occasions in artistic fairs in Chicago, Cologne and Basel.

His works are found in museum collections in Hungary, Germany, Canada, Poland, Russia and USA and in prestigious private collections in Germany, Italy, Canada, USA, Russia, France and Switzerland.

PRINCIPAL WORKS

PAINTERLY EXHIBITION PROJECTS

The Last Demonstration. 1992
Evidence. 1993
Chronicle of Current Events. 1994
Together with Spielberg. 1995
A Chill Down My Spine. 1997

In 1995, he stopped painting.

At the present time, he engages in installations, artistic photography and video art

PROJECTS

Universal Congratulations. 1997
Roy G. Biv. 2000
The Living and the Dead. 2000
Knot under the Pine Trees. Double Feature. 2001
My Windows. 2001
A Time For Everything, a Place for Everything... 2001

In the late eighties, he began to write prose.

His short stories have been published in the journals Ogoniok ("Flame") (1989), Oktyabr ("0ctober") (1996), Znamya ("Banner") (1997, 1999), Zolotoy Vek ("Golden Age") (1997), Literaturnoe Obozrenie ("Literary Review") (1997), Novy Mir ("New World") (1998), Solnechnoe Spletenie ("Solar Plexus") (Israel, 1999, 2001), and others.

He received the Literary Prize of the Znamya Journal for the year 1997.

In 1993, he began to write articles and essays.

His works were published in the newspapers Segodnya ("Today"), Obshchaya Gazeta ("General Newspaper"), MN ("Moscow News"), Inostranets ("Foreigner"), Vesti.ru, etc., and in the journals Inostrannoya Literatura ("Foreign Literature*), Isskustvo Kino ("Art of Cinema"), Znamya, Novy Mir, Itogi ("News Roundup"), Ogoniok, KhZh ("Arts Journal"), Pushkin, Neprikosnovenny Zapas ("Reserve Funds"), and others.

In 1999, a collection of his essays entitled Russians New and Old was issued by NLO Publishers.

He figured on the short list of the Andrei Rely Prize for the year 2000.

He lives and works in Moscow.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2001   A Time For Everything, a Place for Everything... Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Center, Moscow
My Windows. Moscow House of Photography. Moscow
Knot Under the Pine Trees. Double Feature. TV Gallery, Moscow

2000   Roy G. Biv. XL Gallery, Moscow
The Living and the Dead (Summer Memories). Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow

1999   Poplar Down. Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow

1997   A Chill Down the Spine. L Gallery, Moscow

1995   Last Anniversary (together with B. Orlov). Regina Gallery, Moscow

1994   Chronicle of Current Events. Yakut Gallery, Moscow

1993   Evidence. Regina Gallery, Moscow

1992   The Last Demonstration. Regina Gallery, Moscow

1991   Galerie Inge Baecker, Cologne

1990   Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
First Gallery, Moscow

1989   Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago

1988   Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York

PRINCIPAL GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2001   ArtMoscow. Photo series Lokomotiv Stadium. Presented by the Expert Gallery, Moscow
Russian Artists for Andy Warhol (in the framework of the festival Andy Warhol Week in Moscow). An exhibition at the M. Guelman Gallery, Moscow

2000   Twentieth-Century Art. A new permanent collection at the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Serials. State Center for Contemporary Art, Manege, Moscow
Silver Camera 2000. Contest for the best illustrated report about Moscow. Moscow Center of Photography, Manege, Moscow
ART MANEGE, Moscow International Art Fair. An exhibition at the Regina Gallery, Moscow

1999   Museum of Contemporary Art (Russian Art from the Late Fifties to the Early Eighties).
A project of A. Erofeyev. City Artists' Center, Moscow
Act 99. Welts Museum (Austria) - Manege (Moscow)
Post-War Russian Avant-Garde (from the Collections of Yury Traisman). Russian State Museum (St.Petersburg), State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), Miami University Museum (USA)
Ideas for a Museum of the USSR (experimental exhibition). Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Center, Moscow. Yu. Zlotnikov, curator

1997   History through People (a travelling exhibition for Russian provincial towns). Open Society Institute and Tsaritsyno State Museum-Reserve, Moscow
Moscow Hyperrealism. An Exhibition of Five Artists.
A project of the Association of Moscow Galleries in the framework of the Spring ART MANEGE, Moscow

1995   Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union. Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutdgers University, New Jersey, USA

1994   Art Fair Cologne. Galerie Inge Baecker (Cologne) and Sprovieri Gallery (Rome). Cologne, Germany

1993   Monuments: a Transformation for the Future. Institute of Contemporary Art and City Artists' Center. Moscow
White Night. Yakut Gallery, Moscow
Art Hamburg (Artfrom Eastern Europe). Galerie Inge Baecker (Cologne). Hamburg, Germany

1992   Art from First Hand or an Apology of Shyness. Regina Gallery, Moscow
A Mosca... A Mosca. Villa Campoletto (Herculanum) and Galleria Commuiidle (Bologna). Italy

1991   Staatsportrat. Galerie Inge Baecker, Cologne, Germany

1990   International Art Fair. Chicago
Adaptation and Negation of Socialist Realism. The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, USA
FIAC. Paris, France
Art Fair Cologne. Cologne, Germany
Painting in Moscow and Leningrad, 1965-1990. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA
Bulatov, Faibisovich, Gorokhovski, Kopystianskiye, Vassiliev. Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago

1989   Photography in Art. First Gallery, Moscow
Behind the Ironic Curtain. Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
Interart. Poznan, Poland
Moscow-3. Eva Pol Gallery, West Berlin, Germany
International Art Fair. Chicago
Von der Revolution zur Perestroika: Sowjetische Kunst aus der Sammlung Ludwig. Musee d'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, Switzerland
Wirklichkeit a Is Konzept II. Die jungere Generation. Galerie Inge Baecker, Cologne, Germany

1988   Ich lebe -Ich sehe. Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
International Art Fair. Chicago
Art Fair Cologne. Cologne, Germany
Art Hesse. Basel, Switzerland
Glasnost. Kunsthalle Emden, Germany
Beyond the Ironic Curtain. Galerie Inge Baecker, Cologne, Germany
Labyrinth. Palace of Youth, Moscow
Diese Ausstellung wird veranstaltet unter der Schirmherrschaft des Prinzen Alexander von Hessen. Philippsthal-Barchfeld, Germany

1987   Direct from Moscow. Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York
International Art Fair. Chicago
Retrospective: 1957-1987. Hermitage Association, Moscow
Post-Socialist Realism: the New Soviet Reality. Firebird Gallery, Alexandria, USA

1976-88   Exhibitions in the basement of the City Committee of Graphic Artists on the Malaya Gruzinskaya Street, Moscow