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Komar & Melamid Biography
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1943 |
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Vitaly Komar, Born in Moscow
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1945 |
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Alexander Melamid, Born in Moscow
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1958 - 1960 |
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Moscow Art School
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1962 - 1967 |
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Stroganov Institute of Art & Design, Moscow
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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The Thaw and the Time After – Moscow Artists 1958-2008: Part II Komar & Melamid and Sergej Volokhov. Galerie Sandmann. Berlin, Germany
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2009
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Shadows. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Fundacion Caja Madrid. Madrid, Spain
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2008
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Moscow – New York = Parallel Play Chelsea Art Museum New York, NY
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2008
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Komar and Melamid: Super Objects-Super Comfort for Super People Neuberger Museum or Art Purchase, NY
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2005
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Russia! Guggenheim Museum New York, NY
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2003
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Somewhere Better Than This Place, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
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2003
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Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan, Komar & Melamid: Desperately Seeking a Masterpiece
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2002 - 2003
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Symbols of the Big Bang, Yeshiva University Museum, Center for Jewish History, New York, NY
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2002
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Komar and Melamid’s Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project Berkeley Art Museum Berkeley, CA
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2001
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Komar & Melamid's American Dreams, Philadelphia Art Alliance Philadelphia, PA
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2001
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Modernism and Post-Modernism: Russian Art of the Ending Millennium, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greeneville, NC
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1999
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The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, The Museum of Modern Art New York
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1998
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Heroic Painting, Chicago Cultural Center Chicago, IL
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1998
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Heroic Painting, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Winston-Salem, NC and tour
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1998
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The Most Wanted-The Most Unwanted Painting, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
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1998
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The People's Choice, The Akron Art Museum Akron, OH and tour
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1997
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Zeitgenossische Kunst im Museum Ludwig, Kunst Museum Ludwig Cologne, Germany
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1997
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The Most Wanted-The Most Unwanted Painting, Kunst Museum Ludwig Koln, Germany
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1997
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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
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1996
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Made to Order: America's Most Wanted Paintings, The Alternative Museum New York, NY
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1995
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No Man's Land, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center Copenhagen, Denmark
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1994
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Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties, ICA Philadelphia, PA
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1994
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Altered Egos, Santa Monica Museum of Art Sata Monica, CA
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1993
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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
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1993
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25 Years A Retrospective, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH
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1992
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Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA
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1992
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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
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1991
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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
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1990
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Grand Lobby Installation, Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, NY
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1990
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Painting: 1980 to 1986, Gallery 210, University of Missouri St. Louis, MO
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1989
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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
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1988
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Death Poems, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst West Berlin, Germany
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1987
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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
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1986
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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
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1986
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Komar & Melamid, Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh, Scotland
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1986
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Museum of Modern Art, Oxford Oxford, The United Kingdom
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1985
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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
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1984
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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
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1983
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Portland Center for Visual Arts Portland, OR
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1982
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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
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1980
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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
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1978
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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
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1977
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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
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1976
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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
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| Literature |
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The New York Times. “Long Afterlife for a Short-Lived Jewish Monthly.” Samuel G. Freedman
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Painting by Numbers: Koamar and Melamid's Scientific Guide to Art. Edited by JoAnn Wypijewski. New York, NY: Farrar Straus and Giroux.
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Ratcliff, Carter. Komar & Melamid. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1988.
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New York, "A Russian Life: Tiny Pictures at an Exhibition", Dorothy Seiberling
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New York Times Magazine, "Dissidence as a Way of Art", Grace Glueck
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New Yorker, "Profiles: Partners", Ian Frazier
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The New York Times, "Sears: The Real America (according to these Russians)", Patricia Leigh Brown
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Boston Sunday Globe, "Art from the aMassives", Fred Kaplan
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| Links to further information |
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