OLEG VASSILIEV (1931-2013)

Solo Exhibitions

2014 New Brunswick, Zimmerli Art Museum Rutgers University, : Space and Light (cat.) 2013 London, Faggionato, Paintings 1967 – 2012 2012-11 Minneapolis, The Museum of Russian Art, Paintings and Drawings (cat.) 2009-08 London, Faggionato Fine Arts, Recent Work (cat.) 2007 New York, Forum Gallery, Drawings (cat.) 2004 , The State , Memory Speaks (Themes and Variations), retrospective, travelled to The State , St. Petersburg (cat.) 2000 Zurich, Galerie Andy Jllien, Recent Works Dartmouth, University of Massachusetts, University Art Gallery, The Past Isn’t Dead, It Isn’t Even Past, (cat.) 1999 Oslo, Blomquist, Works 1987-1995 (cat.) North Carolina, Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, On Black Paper, travelled to Denison University Art Gallery, Granville, Ohio (cat.) 1997 Moscow, Phoenix Gallery 1996 Norway, Drobak, Oljemalerier Galleri Cassandra, Litografier til Tsjekhovs novelle ‘Husel med Arken’, (cat.) 1995 Denver, Sloane Gallery, Windows of Memory 1995 Lexington, Art Museum of the University of Kentucky, Conceptual Posters by Oleg Vassiliev 1993 New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Recent Works 1991 Madrid, Galeria Fernando Duran (cat.) 1968 Moscow, Bluebird Café

Group Exhibitions

2013 Minneapolis, The Museum of Russian Art, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1965-2011 2013-12 London, Saatchi Gallery, Breaking the Ice: Moscow Art 1960s-80s (cat.) 2010 London, Haunch of Venison, Glasnost: Soviet Non-Conformist Art from the 1980s (cat.) 2005 New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Russia! (cat.) St. Petersburg, The State Russian Museum, 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.)

New York, Yeshiva University Museum, REMEMBRANCE: Russian Post-Modern Nostalgia (cat.) Montreal, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Global Village: The 1960s (cat.) 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, , , Dmitri Prigov, Oleg Vassiliev Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belem, Malevich. Cinema and Beyond (cat.) Moscow, National Centre for Contemporary Art 2001 New Brunswick, New Jersey, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Realities and Utopias (cat.) Las Vegas, University of Nevada, Barrick Museum, Cold War/Hot Culture; American and Russian Nonconformist Art 2000 Exeter, New Hampshire, Phillips Exeter Academy, The Lamont Gallery, Seeing Isn’t Believing: Russian Art Since Glasnost (cat.) 1999 Washington, organized by International Art and Artists, Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde. Travelled to Oxford, Ohio, Miami University Art Museum; , St. Petersburg, The State Russian Museum; Moscow, The State Tretyakov Gallery; Pasadena, California, Art Centre College of Design, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery; Massachusetts, Boston College, McMullen Museum; Greenwich, Connecticut, Bruce Museum of Art and Science (cat.) 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 St. Petersburg, Florida, Museum of Fine Art, Selections from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art of the 1996 Rome, Radar, Art Russia (cat.) 1995 Berlin, Kiel Haus am Waldesee, Sadgalerie im Sophenhot, Flug, Entfernung, Verschwinden, Konzeptuelle Kunst aus Moskau (cat.) New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, From Gulag to Glasnost: Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union (cat.) Munich, Kraftmessen, The Damaged Utopia (cat.) Lexington, Kentucky, Transylvania University, Morlan Gallery, Russian Images 1966- 1995 New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Group Show Karlsruhe, Museum Kunstverein, A Mosca…A Mosca (cat.) 1994 Oklahoma, Kolodzei Collection of Contemporary Russian Art, Works on Paper Krolikarni, Poland, Dunikowski Museum Palace, and St. Petersburg, The State Russian Museum, No! and the Conformists. Faces of Soviet Art 1950-1980 (cat.) Bern, Kunstmuseum, Zeitgenossen

New York, P.S.1, Stalin’s Choice: Soviet Socialist Realism 1932-1956 1993 Moscow, Central House of Artists, Monuments: Transformation for the Future Paris, Post Museum, Temporary Address for Contemporary Russian Art New York, Stuart Levy Gallery, Old Symbols, New Icons in Russian Contemporary Art New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, M’AIDEZ/MAYDAY Kirkenes, Norway, Norsk-Russick Centre, Tre Kunstneres syn pa Tjekov Montreal, Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, After Perestroika: Kitchenmaids or Stateswomen (cat.) New York, Monumental Propaganda, organized by Komar & Melamid and Independent Curators Incorporated. Travelled to New York, World Financial Centre, Courtyard Gallery; Moscow, The Institute of Contemporary Art; Talinn, Estonia, Institute of History, AI Gallery; Slovenia, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana; Saskatchewan, Regina, Dunlop Art Gallery; Fullerton, California, The Muckenthaler Art Centre; Miami Beach, The Bass Museum of Art; Kansas City, Missouri, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Finland, Helsinki City Art Museum; Helsinki, Uppsala Konstmuseum; Georgia, Kennisaw State University (cat.) 1992 Bohum, Germany, Bohum Museum, Lianozovo-Moscow: Vsevelod Nekrasov’s Russian Art Collection Moscow, Centre of Contemporary Art, Three Points of View (cat.) Herculaneaum, Italy, Villa Campolieto, and Bologna, Museum of Modern Art, A Mosca…A Mosca (cat.) New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Erik Bulatov and Oleg Vassiliev (cat.) 1991 Santiago de Compostela, Auditorio de Galicia, Artistos Rusos Contemporaneos New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Erik Bulatov/Oleg Vassiliev Moscow, The State Literature Museum, Group Exhibition New York, Berman-E.N. Gallery, Back to Square One (cat.) Leningrad, Moscow and The Russian Museum, The Tretyakov Gallery, The Other Art: Moscow 1956-1976 (cat.) Tokyo, Setagaya Museum, Soviet Contemporary Art: From Thaw to Perestroika 1990 Moscow, Palace of Youth, Logic of Paradox Moscow, Soviet Foundation of Culture, Alternative Art of the 60s Ridgefield, Connecticut, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Soviet Art: Adaptation and Negation of Socialist Realism (cat.) Paris, Foire International d’Art Contemporain (FIAC 90) 1989 New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Erik Bulatov/Oleg Vassiliev Lucerne, Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Luzern, From the Revolution to Perestroika, Soviet Art of the Ludwig Collection. Travelled to Barcelona, Palau de la Virreina- Ajuntment de Barcelona; St. Etienne, Musee d’Art Moderne (cat.) Moscow, First Gallery, Photo in Painting New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Behind the Ironic Curtain

USSR, Uzbekistan, Tashkent, The State Museum of Fine Arts, 100 Artists from the Kolodzei Collection 1988 Bern, Kunstmuseum, Ich Lebe, Ich Sene (cat.) Moscow, Exhibition Hall Begovaya Ulitza, No Problem 1987 New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Direct from Moscow Milan/Rome, Galleria Marconi, Soviet Art Moscow, Kashirskoye Shosse Exhibition Space, The Artist and His Time 1982 Moscow, Conference and Exhibition at the Centre of Aesthetics, Photography and Painting Elancourt, France, Villedien Culture Centre, 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, Venice Biennale, La Nuova arte sovietica: una prospettiva non ufficiale (New Soviet Art: a Non-official Prospective)

Public Collections

Moscow, The State Tretyakov Gallery St. Petersburg, The State Russian Museum Moscow, The State Centre of Contemporary Art Moscow, The of Fine Art Murmansk, Art Museum Moscow, Art4.ru Dresden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden Bern, Kunstmuseum Bern Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum New Brunswick, New Jersey, The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Soviet Nonconformist Art Kirkenes, Norsk-Russisk kultursenter North Carolina, Durham, Duke University Museum of Art Kentucky, Lexington, Art Museum of the University of Kentucky Colorado, Denver, Denver Art Museum New Jersey, Highland Park, Kolodzei Art Foundation Aachen, The Ludwig Collection Athens, The Costakis Collection

Bibliography

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, 1995. Berlin Moscow / Moscow Berlin Kunst 1950-2000. Moscow: State Tretyakov Gallery, Berlin: Martin- Gropius-Bau, 2003. Blomqvist. Oleg Vassiliev: Works 1987-1999 Catalogue. Oslo, Norway, 1999. Bown, Matthew Cullerne. Contemporary Russian Art. New York: Allied Books, 1989. 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, 1998. Nekrasov, Vsevolod. Zhivu Vizhu (Live and See). Moscow, 2002. Phyllis Kind Gallery. Eric Bulatov/Oleg Vassiliev. New York, 1991. Tupitsyn, Margarita. Margins of Soviet Art. Milan: Giancarlo Politi Editore, 1989.