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Oleg Vassiliev Biography
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1931 |
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Born in Moscow, Russia.
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1958 |
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Graduated from the V.I. Surikov State Art Institute, Moscow
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1990 |
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Emigrated to the USA.
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2007
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New York, Forum Gallery, Oleg Vassiliev: Drawings (cat.) (solo)
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2005
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New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Russia! (cat.)
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2005
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The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Collage in Russia XX Century (cat.)
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2004
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Moscow, The State Tretyakov Gallery and Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin-Moscow/Moscow-Berlin, Kunst 1950-2000, (cat.)
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2004
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Yeshiva University Museum, New York, REMEMBRANCE: Russian Post-Modern Nostalgia (cat.)
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2004
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Canada, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Global Village: The 1960s (cat.
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2004
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Moscow, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Memory Speaks (Themes and Variations), retrospective, traveled to The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (cat.) (solo)
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2003
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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
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2002
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Zurich, Andy Jllien Gallery, Moskauer Avantgarde: Grisha Bruskin, Erik Bulatov, Ilya Kabakov, Dmitri Prigov, Oleg Vassiliev,
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2002
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Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belem, Malevich, Cinema and Beyond (cat.)
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2002
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Moscow, National Center for Contemporary Art
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2001
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New Brunswick, New Jersey, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Realities and Utopias (cat.)
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2001
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Nevada, University of Las Vegas, Barrick Museum, Cold War/Hot Culture; American and Russian Nonconformist Art,
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2000
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New Hampshire, Exeter, Phillips Exeter Academy, The Lamont Gallery, Seeing Isn’t Believing: Russian Art Since Glasnost, (cat.)
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2000
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Zurich, Galerie Andy Jllien, Recent Works (solo)
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2000
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Dartmouth, University of Massachusetts, University Art Gallery, The Past Isn’t Dead, It Isn’t Even Past, (cat.) (solo)
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1999
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Oslo, Blomquist Works 1987-1995 (cat.) (solo)
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1999
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North Carolina, Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, On Black Paper, traveled to Denison University Art Gallery, Granville, Ohio (cat.) (solo)
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1999
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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.)
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1999
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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.)
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1998
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New York, Tabakman Gallery, The Russian Thaw
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1998
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Florida, Museum of Fine Art, St. Petersburg, Selections from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art of the Soviet Union
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1997
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Moscow, Phoenix Gallery, Oleg Vassiliev (solo)
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1996
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Drobak (Norway), Oljemalerier Galleri Cassandra (solo)
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1996
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Litografier til Tsjekhovs novelle ‘Husel med Arken’, (cat.) (solo)
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1996
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Rome. Radar, Art Russia (cat.)
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1995
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Berlin, Kiel Haus am Waldesee, Sadgalerie im Sophenhot, Flug, Entfernung, Verschwinden, Konzeptuelle Kunst aus Moskau, (cat.)
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1995
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New Jersey, New Brunswick, Rutgers University, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, From Gulag to Glasnost: Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union (cat.)
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1995
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Munich, Kraftmessen, The Damaged Utopia (cat.)
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1995
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Kentucky, Lexington, Transylvania University, Morlan Gallery, Russian Images 1966-1995
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1995
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New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Group Show
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1995
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Germany, Karlsruhe, Museum Kunstverein, A Mosca…A Mosca (cat.)
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1995
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Denver, Sloane Gallery, Windows of Memory (solo)
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1995
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Lexington, Art Museum of the University of Kentucky, Conceptual Posters by Oleg Vassiliev (solo)
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1994
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Oklahoma, Kolodzei Collection of Contemporary Russian Art, Works on Paper
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1994
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Poland, Dunikowski Museum Palac, Krolikarni, and The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, No! and the Conformists. Faces of Soviet Art 1950-1980 (cat.)
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1994
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Bern, Kunstmuseum, Zeitgenossen
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1994
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New York, P.S.1, Stalin’s Choice: Soviet Socialist Realism 1932-1956,
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1993
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Moscow, Central House of Artists, Monuments: Transformation for the Future
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1993
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Paris, Post Museum, Temporary Address for Contemporary Russian Art
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1993
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New York, Stuart Levy Gallery, Old Symbols, New Icons in Russian Contemporary Art
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1993
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New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, M’AIDEZ/MAYDAY
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1993
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Norway, Kirkenes, Norsk-Russick Center, Tre Kunstneres syn pa Tjekov
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1993
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Canada, Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, After Perestroika: Kitchenmaids or Stateswomen (cat.)
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1993
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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.)
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1993
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New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Recent Works (solo)
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1992
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Germany, Bohum, Bohum Museum, Lianozovo-Moscow: Vsevelod Nekrasov’s Russian Art Collection
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1992
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Moscow, Center of Contemporary Art, Three Points of View (cat.)
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1992
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Italy, Herculaneaum, Villa Campolieto, and Bologna, Museum of Modern Art, A Mosca…A Mosca, (cat.)
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1992
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New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Erik Bulatov and Oleg Vassiliev (cat.)
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1991
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Spain, Santiago de Compostela, Auditorio de Galicia, Artistos Rusos Contemporaneos,
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1991
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New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Erik Bulatov/Oleg Vassiliev
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1991
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Madrid, Galeria Fernando Duran, Oleg Vassiliev, (cat.) (solo)
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1991
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Moscow, The State Literature Museum, Group Exhibition
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1991
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New York, Berman-E.N. Gallery, Back to Square One (cat.)
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1991
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Leningrad, Moscow and The Russian Museum, The Tretyakov Gallery, The Other Art: Moscow 1956-1976 (cat.)
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1991
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Tokyo, Setagaya Museum, Soviet Contemporary Art: From Thaw to Perestroika
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1990
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Moscow, Palace of Youth, Logic of Paradox
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1990
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Moscow, Soviet Foundation of Culture, Alternative Art of the 60s
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1990
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Connecticut,Ridgefield, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Soviet Art: Adaptation and Negation of Socialist Realism (cat.)
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1990
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Paris, Foire International d’Art Contemporain (FIAC 90)
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1989
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New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Erik Bulatov/Oleg Vassiliev
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1989
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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.)
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1989
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Moscow, First Gallery, Photo in Painting
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1989
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New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Behind the Ironic Curtain
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1989
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USSR, Uzbekistan, Tashkent, The State Museum of Fine Arts, 100 Artists from the Kolodzei Collection,
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1988
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Bern, Kunstmuseum, Ich Lebe, Ich Sene (cat.)
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1988
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Moscow, Exhibition Hall Begovaya Ulitza, No Problem
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1987
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New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Direct from Moscow
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1987
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Milan/Rome, Marconi Galleria, Soviet Art
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1987
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Moscow, Kashirskoye Shosse Exhibition Space, The Artist and His Time
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1982
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Moscow, Conference and Exhibition at the Center of Aesthetics, Photography and Painting
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1982
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France, Elancourt, Villedien Culture Center, New Tendencies of Soviet Unofficial Art 1956-1981
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1981
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Jersey City, The C.A.S.E. Museum of Unofficial Soviet Art, 25 Years of Soviet Unofficial Art 1956-1981,
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1977
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Venice Biennale, La Nuova arte sovietica: una prospettiva non ufficiale (New Soviet Art: a Non-official Prospective)
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1968
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Moscow, Bluebird Café, Oleg Vassiliev (solo)
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| Literature |
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2003
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Berlin Moscow / Moscow Berlin Kunst 1950-2000. Moscow: State Tretyakov Gallery, Berlin: Martin-Gropius-Bau
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2002
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Nekrasov, Vsevolod. Zhivu Vizhu (Live and See). Moscow
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1999
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Blomqvist. Oleg Vassiliev: Works 1987-1999 Catalogue. Oslo, Norway
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1998
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Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde Catalogue. New York: DIA
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1998
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Khidekel, Regina. It's the Real Thing: Soviet and Post-Soviet Sots Art and American Pop Art Catalogue. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
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1995
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A Mosca...A Mosca... Catalogue. Olograf Editioni, Bologna, Italy, 1992, Karlsruhe, Germany
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1995
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Baigell, Renee and Matthew Baigell. Soviet Dissident Artists: Interviews After Perestroika. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP
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1991
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Phyllis Kind Gallery. Eric Bulatov/Oleg Vassiliev. New York
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1989
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Bown, Matthew Cullerne. Contemporary Russian Art. New York: Allied Books
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1989
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Tupitsyn, Margarita. Margins of Soviet Art. Milan: Giancarlo Politi Editore
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