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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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Exhibitions |
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2010 |
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Glasnost, Soviet Non-Conformist Art from the 1980s Haunch of Venison London, UK |
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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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2010 |
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The St. Petersburg Times “A new platform for modern art” Katharine Helmore |
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2009 |
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The New York Times “Long Afterlife for a Short-Lived Jewish Monthly” Samuel G. Freedman |
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2009 |
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Crossing Cultures: Conflict Migration and Convergence “Komar and Melamid: The Future Memory of International Modernism” Joe A. Thomas |
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2008 |
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The New York Times “Skewering Soviet Dogma and Consumerism, Too Benjamin Genocchio |
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2007 |
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Art Forum “Eastern Prophecies” Boris Groys |
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2006 |
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The New York Times “Artists Against the State.” Ken Johnson |
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2004 |
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NY Arts “The Art Couple” John Perreault |
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2003 |
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Fulcrum “Symbol and Origin” Mikhail Iampolski |
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2002 |
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Komar & Melamid: Symbols of the Big Bang. New York, NY: Yeshiva University Museum |
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2002 |
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The Jewish Week “Star Gazers” Daniel Belasco |
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2000 |
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Boston Sunday Globe “Art From the Massives” Fred Kaplan |
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1997 |
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Painting by Numbers: Komar and Melamid's Scientific Guide to Art. Edited by JoAnn |
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1992 |
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The New York Times "Sears: the real America (according to these Russians)” Patricia Leigh Brown |
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1988 |
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Ratcliff, Carter. Komar & Melamid. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1988 |
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1986 |
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New Yorker "Profiles: Partners” Ian Frazier |
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1977 |
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New York Times Magazine "Dissidence as a Way of Art” Grace Glueck |
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1976 |
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New York "A Russian Life: Tiny Pictures at an Exhibition” Dorothy Seiberling |
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