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Oleg Vassiliev    (Russian, 1931)

 Oleg Vassiliev - Quotation: Komar & Melamid (Paintings) h: 36 x w: 48 in / h: 91.4 x w: 121.9 cm
Oleg Vassiliev
Quotation: Komar & Melamid 2005
 
 Oleg Vassiliev - Window (Paintings) h: 48 x w: 39 in / h: 121.9 x w: 99.1 cm
Oleg Vassiliev
Window 1995
 
 

Biography
1931 Born in Moscow, Russia.
1958 Graduated from the V.I. Surikov State Art Institute, Moscow
1990 Emigrated to the USA.

Exhibitions
2007 New York, Forum Gallery, Oleg Vassiliev: Drawings (cat.) (solo)
2005 New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Russia! (cat.)
2005 The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Collage in Russia XX Century (cat.)
2004 Moscow, The State Tretyakov Gallery and Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin-Moscow/Moscow-Berlin, Kunst 1950-2000, (cat.)
2004 Yeshiva University Museum, New York, REMEMBRANCE: Russian Post-Modern Nostalgia (cat.)
2004 Canada, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Global Village: The 1960s (cat.
2004 Moscow, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Memory Speaks (Themes and Variations), retrospective, traveled to The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (cat.) (solo)
2003 Paramus, New Jersey, The Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Finding Freedom: 40 Years of Soviet and Russian Art, Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art
2002 Zurich, Andy Jllien Gallery, Moskauer Avantgarde: Grisha Bruskin, Erik Bulatov, Ilya Kabakov, Dmitri Prigov, Oleg Vassiliev,
2002 Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belem, Malevich, Cinema and Beyond (cat.)
2002 Moscow, National Center for Contemporary Art
2001 New Brunswick, New Jersey, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Realities and Utopias (cat.)
2001 Nevada, University of Las Vegas, Barrick Museum, Cold War/Hot Culture; American and Russian Nonconformist Art,
2000 New Hampshire, Exeter, Phillips Exeter Academy, The Lamont Gallery, Seeing Isn’t Believing: Russian Art Since Glasnost, (cat.)
2000 Zurich, Galerie Andy Jllien, Recent Works (solo)
2000 Dartmouth, University of Massachusetts, University Art Gallery, The Past Isn’t Dead, It Isn’t Even Past, (cat.) (solo)
1999 Oslo, Blomquist Works 1987-1995 (cat.) (solo)
1999 North Carolina, Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, On Black Paper, traveled to Denison University Art Gallery, Granville, Ohio (cat.) (solo)
1999 Washington, DC, organized by International Art and Artists, Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde, traveled to: Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio; The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California; McMullen Museum, Boston College, Massachusetts; Bruce Museum of Art and Science, Greenwich, Connecticut (cat.)
1999 Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, It’s the Real Thing…Soviet and Post-Soviet Sots Art and American Pop Art (cat.)
1998 New York, Tabakman Gallery, The Russian Thaw
1998 Florida, Museum of Fine Art, St. Petersburg, Selections from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art of the Soviet Union
1997 Moscow, Phoenix Gallery, Oleg Vassiliev (solo)
1996 Drobak (Norway), Oljemalerier Galleri Cassandra (solo)
1996 Litografier til Tsjekhovs novelle ‘Husel med Arken’, (cat.) (solo)
1996 Rome. Radar, Art Russia (cat.)
1995 Berlin, Kiel Haus am Waldesee, Sadgalerie im Sophenhot, Flug, Entfernung, Verschwinden, Konzeptuelle Kunst aus Moskau, (cat.)
1995 New Jersey, New Brunswick, Rutgers University, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, From Gulag to Glasnost: Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union (cat.)
1995 Munich, Kraftmessen, The Damaged Utopia (cat.)
1995 Kentucky, Lexington, Transylvania University, Morlan Gallery, Russian Images 1966-1995
1995 New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Group Show
1995 Germany, Karlsruhe, Museum Kunstverein, A Mosca…A Mosca (cat.)
1995 Denver, Sloane Gallery, Windows of Memory (solo)
1995 Lexington, Art Museum of the University of Kentucky, Conceptual Posters by Oleg Vassiliev (solo)
1994 Oklahoma, Kolodzei Collection of Contemporary Russian Art, Works on Paper
1994 Poland, Dunikowski Museum Palac, Krolikarni, and The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, No! and the Conformists. Faces of Soviet Art 1950-1980 (cat.)
1994 Bern, Kunstmuseum, Zeitgenossen
1994 New York, P.S.1, Stalin’s Choice: Soviet Socialist Realism 1932-1956,
1993 Moscow, Central House of Artists, Monuments: Transformation for the Future
1993 Paris, Post Museum, Temporary Address for Contemporary Russian Art
1993 New York, Stuart Levy Gallery, Old Symbols, New Icons in Russian Contemporary Art
1993 New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, M’AIDEZ/MAYDAY
1993 Norway, Kirkenes, Norsk-Russick Center, Tre Kunstneres syn pa Tjekov
1993 Canada, Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, After Perestroika: Kitchenmaids or Stateswomen (cat.)
1993 New York, Monumental Propaganda, exhibition organized by Komar & Melamid and Independent Curators Incorporated, traveled to: Courtyard Gallery, World Financial Center, New York; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow; AI Gallery, Institute of History, Talinn, Estonia; Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia; Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan; The Muckenthaler Art Center, Fullerton, California; The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland; Uppsala Konstmuseum; Helsinki; Kennisaw State University, Georgia (cat.)
1993 New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Recent Works (solo)
1992 Germany, Bohum, Bohum Museum, Lianozovo-Moscow: Vsevelod Nekrasov’s Russian Art Collection
1992 Moscow, Center of Contemporary Art, Three Points of View (cat.)
1992 Italy, Herculaneaum, Villa Campolieto, and Bologna, Museum of Modern Art, A Mosca…A Mosca, (cat.)
1992 New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Erik Bulatov and Oleg Vassiliev (cat.)
1991 Spain, Santiago de Compostela, Auditorio de Galicia, Artistos Rusos Contemporaneos,
1991 New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Erik Bulatov/Oleg Vassiliev
1991 Madrid, Galeria Fernando Duran, Oleg Vassiliev, (cat.) (solo)
1991 Moscow, The State Literature Museum, Group Exhibition
1991 New York, Berman-E.N. Gallery, Back to Square One (cat.)
1991 Leningrad, Moscow and The Russian Museum, The Tretyakov Gallery, The Other Art: Moscow 1956-1976 (cat.)
1991 Tokyo, Setagaya Museum, Soviet Contemporary Art: From Thaw to Perestroika
1990 Moscow, Palace of Youth, Logic of Paradox
1990 Moscow, Soviet Foundation of Culture, Alternative Art of the 60s
1990 Connecticut,Ridgefield, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Soviet Art: Adaptation and Negation of Socialist Realism (cat.)
1990 Paris, Foire International d’Art Contemporain (FIAC 90)
1989 New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Erik Bulatov/Oleg Vassiliev
1989 Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Luzern, From the Revolution to Perestroika, Soviet Art of the Ludwig Collection, traveled to Palau de la Virreina-Ajuntment de Barcelona, Spain, and Musee d’Art Moderne de St. Etienne, France (cat.)
1989 Moscow, First Gallery, Photo in Painting
1989 New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Behind the Ironic Curtain
1989 USSR, Uzbekistan, Tashkent, The State Museum of Fine Arts, 100 Artists from the Kolodzei Collection,
1988 Bern, Kunstmuseum, Ich Lebe, Ich Sene (cat.)
1988 Moscow, Exhibition Hall Begovaya Ulitza, No Problem
1987 New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Direct from Moscow
1987 Milan/Rome, Marconi Galleria, Soviet Art
1987 Moscow, Kashirskoye Shosse Exhibition Space, The Artist and His Time
1982 Moscow, Conference and Exhibition at the Center of Aesthetics, Photography and Painting
1982 France, Elancourt, Villedien Culture Center, New Tendencies of Soviet Unofficial Art 1956-1981
1981 Jersey City, The C.A.S.E. Museum of Unofficial Soviet Art, 25 Years of Soviet Unofficial Art 1956-1981,
1977 Venice Biennale, La Nuova arte sovietica: una prospettiva non ufficiale (New Soviet Art: a Non-official Prospective)
1968 Moscow, Bluebird Café, Oleg Vassiliev (solo)

Literature
2003 Berlin Moscow / Moscow Berlin Kunst 1950-2000. Moscow: State Tretyakov Gallery, Berlin: Martin-Gropius-Bau
2002 Nekrasov, Vsevolod. Zhivu Vizhu (Live and See). Moscow
1999 Blomqvist. Oleg Vassiliev: Works 1987-1999 Catalogue. Oslo, Norway
1998 Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde Catalogue. New York: DIA
1998 Khidekel, Regina. It's the Real Thing: Soviet and Post-Soviet Sots Art and American Pop Art Catalogue. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
1995 A Mosca...A Mosca... Catalogue. Olograf Editioni, Bologna, Italy, 1992, Karlsruhe, Germany
1995 Baigell, Renee and Matthew Baigell. Soviet Dissident Artists: Interviews After Perestroika. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP
1991 Phyllis Kind Gallery. Eric Bulatov/Oleg Vassiliev. New York
1989 Bown, Matthew Cullerne. Contemporary Russian Art. New York: Allied Books
1989 Tupitsyn, Margarita. Margins of Soviet Art. Milan: Giancarlo Politi Editore
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