Born in 1972, Moscow
Lives and works in New York since 1994
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS2012 Kimjongilias, a.k.a. "Flower Paintings," Galerie Blue Square, Washington, D.C. (forthcoming)
Communist Tour of MoMA, a performance as part of
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York (forthcoming)
Modern Art Shackled to Communism, Galerie Sator, Paris
2011 Red Kaddish, Museum at Eldridge Street/A Landmark Synagogue Story, New York
Leniniana, Palazzo Panichi, Pietrasanta, Italy (catalog)
2010 Communist Tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art (performance), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Communist Conspiracy in Art Threatens American Museums, Temple Gallery at Tyler School of Art/Temple University, Philadelphia
Ayn Rand in Illustrations, Winkleman Gallery, New York
Communist Tour of MoMA, Low Road Gallery/DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana
Communist Tour of MoMA, Museum of Modern Art (guerrilla performance), New York
2009 American Communists in Moscow: Walking Tours, 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow (catalog)
The Song of Russia, Galerie Blue Square, Paris
2008Communist Guide to New York City, Barnard College, New York
Adopt Lenin, Winkleman Gallery, New York
Reading Lenin with Corporations (in collaboration with K. Hansen, O. Kopenkina, and A. Lerman), PS 122 Gallery, New York
Monitoring Lenin’s Sales on Amazon.com, Contemporary City Foundation, Moscow
Communist Guide to New York City, Common Room 2, New York (catalog)
2007Communist Party USA, Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow
Lenin for Your Library? Lenin Museo, Tampere, Finland
2006Lenin for Your Library? State Museum of Russian Political History (1st St. Petersburg Biennale of Contemporary Art), St. Petersburg
Lenin-by-mail, Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2005 The Song of Russia, ARTStrelka Projects, Moscow
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS2012Migration, Proteus Gowanus, New York
Corporations Are People Too, Winkleman Gallery, New York
The Workers: Precarity/Invisibility/Mobility, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts (catalog) (continued from 2011)
It's the Political Economy, Stupid, curated by Greg Sholette and Oliver Ressler, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York City
2011Imaginary Archive: Galway, Chapter Two, (a project by Greg Sholette) 126 Gallery, Tulca Art Festival, Galway, Ireland
Incipit, Galerie Sator, Paris
Market, (as part of Creative Times' "Living As Form"), Essex Street Market, New York (publication)
Media Impact. International Festival of Activist Art (4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art), ARTPLAY, Moscow (catalog)
Rewriting Worlds, 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow (catalog)
The Impossible Communities, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (catalog)
Image Wars, Abrons Art Center, New York City
Ostalgia, New Museum (as part of Chto Delat's installation), New York City
The Workers: Precarity/Invisibility/Mobility, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts (catalog)
Out of Print, The Kitchen, New York City
The Typhoon Continues and So Do You, Flux Factory, Long Island City, New York
Home Gun, Dommer & Byars Gallery, San Francisco
2010En Cada Instante, Ruptura (In Every Instant, A Rupture), Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, Mexico City (catalog)
Engineers of the Soul, Postmasters Gallery, New York
All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Social at the Berardo Collection (Tudo o que é sólido dissolve-se no ar: O político na Colecção Berardo), Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon
Wellington Collaboratorium: An Imaginary Archive, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand (catalog)
Mirror, Mirror, Postmasters Gallery, New York
#class, Winkleman Gallery, New York
When One Has to Say “We”: Art as the Practice of Solidarity (screening program), European University, St. Petersburg
Artistes Russes: Un art au superlatif, Abbaye Saint André Centre d'art Contemporain, Meymac, France
2009Beyond the Instance of an Ending: projects and events, Herter Art Gallery at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Miguel Amado Presents, International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn, New York
Ultra New Materiality, (3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art), Moscow (catalog)
European Atelier, Central Artists’ House, Moscow
Vysocansky Congress (screening), National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
Things Fall Apart, Winkleman Gallery, New York
2008Metro Poles, Art in Action, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, New York
Subjective Events, Sometimes Recorded, Art Laboratory Berlin, Berlin
In Transition, National Center for Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg; National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow (catalog)
Tina B: The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague (catalog)
16th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney (catalog)
1st Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow (catalog)
L’impresa dell’arte (The Enterprise of Art), PAN | Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples (catalog)
Properly Past, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn
2007Artist as Activist Festival, Tokyo
VII Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia (catalog)
1st Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, International Workshop of Young Artists, The Archeological Museum, Thessaloniki, Greece (catalog)
Critically in Between, "Art Athens" Art Fair, Helexpo, Athens (catalog)
The Return of Memory: New Art from Russia, Art Museum Kumu, Tallinn, Estonia
Progressive Nostalgia: Contemporary Art from the Former USSR, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy (catalog)
9000 km (traveling project of the National Center for Contemporary Art), Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (catalog)
Witnesses to the Impossible (2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art), Moscow Center for the Arts, Moscow (catalog)
Left Pop (Bringing It Back Home) (2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art), Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (catalog)
Petroliana (2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art), Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (catalog)
Partners in Crime, Gallery MC, New York (catalog)
20069000 km (traveling project of the National Center for Contemporary Art), European University in St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg (1st St. Petersburg Biennale of Contemporary Art); Kemerovo University Exhibition Hall, Kemerovo
XI Moscow International Forum of Art Initiatives, Novy Manezh, Moscow (catalog)
Contested Spaces in Post-Soviet Art, Sydney Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College, New York
The Studio Visit, Exit Art, New York
Outsourced: Contemporary Russian Art, Current Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
2005Artist & Arms, Mar's Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow (catalog)
Russia Redux #1, Schroeder Romero, New York
Enemy Image, Momenta Art, New York
X Moscow International Forum of Art Initiatives, Novy Manezh, Moscow (catalog)
VI Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia (catalog)
Post-Diasporas: Voyages and Missions (1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art), Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (catalog)
Bring in the Clones, VertexList, New York
2004 The Presidency, Exit Art, New York
Crude Oil Paintings, White Columns, New York (traveled to Akus Gallery at Eastern Connecticut State University, Connecticut) (catalog)
ArtKliazma Festival 2004, Kliazma Reservoir Resort, Moscow (catalog)
Artist & Arms, National Center for Contemporary Art, Kaliningrad
2003 ArtKliazma Festival 2003, Kliazma Reservoir Resort, Moscow (catalog)
D.U.M.B.O. Art Under the Bridge Festival 2003, New York
Brewster Project 2003, A Site-specific Contemporary Art Event, Brewster, New York
2002 Digital DUMBO, Mastel+Mastel Gallery, New York
2000 E-europe, The Bronx River Art Center, New York
1996 Soho Arts Festival 96, 420 West Broadway, New York
1996 Inverted Perspective, Eight Floor Gallery, New York (catalog)
1995 Art in the Anchorage 95, Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage Museum, New York
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LECTURES AND PANELS2011 "Post-Soviet Reflections," Union College, Schenectady, New York
"Post War Debate," The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York City, April 11, 2011
"Post-Soviet Redemption," Philosophy and the Arts Conference, Stony Brook University, New York City, April 2, 2011
"Communist Afterlives," VOLTA NY, New York, March 5, 2011
2010 "Communist Tour of MoMA (an off-site lecture)," Postmasters Gallery, New York, November 20, 2010
"Post-Soviet without Shores," Temple University, Philadelphia, September 29, 2010
"Responsibility of the Post-Soviet Artist," DePauw University, Greencastle, IN, March 4, 2010
"Culture Jamming," Hunter College of the City University of New York, March 2010
2008"Soviet Contamination," Columbia University, New York, November 25, 2008
2007 "Lenin for Your Library?" Orchard Gallery, New York
Interventions," Hunter College of the City University of New York
"Recent Work," International Center of Photography, New York
2006 "Recent Work," The New School University, New York
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PUBLICATIONS"Moscow," Ugly Duckling Presse, Spring 2012 (forthcoming)
"
Moscow," Triple Canopy, Issue 15, December 1, 2011
Yevgeniy Fiks: Moscow, Asymptote, April 2011
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The Studio-X New York Guide to Liberating New Forms of Conversation," Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University, 2010
"Yevgeniy Fiks: Song of Russia," Cultural Politics - Volume 6, Issue 2, July 2010
“American Communists in Moscow,”
SHIFTER 16: Pluripotential, 2010
“
Communist Guide to New York City,” Common Books, 2008
“Responsibilities of the Post-Soviet Artist,” Progressive Nostalgia Exhibition Catalog, Centro per L’arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci Prato, 2007
“
Lenin for Your Library?” Ante Projects, 2007
“Responsibilities of the Post-Soviet Artist,” Moscow Art Magazine, No. 65/66, June 2007
"Why I Paint American Communists?" EUROART Magazine, Issue 3, Summer 2007
“Nationalization of Galleries and Museums,” Moscow Art Magazine, No. 64, February 2007
“Lenin for Your Library?” Russian Art in Translation/Ante No. 4, 2007
“For Critical Simulation,” Moscow Art Magazine, No. 60, December 2005
“At the Mercy of Others: The Politics of Care,” Moscow Art Magazine, No. 58/59, September 2005
“Blood of a Hacking Body,” Magazinnik, No.5, 2005
“Post-diaspora: Statement and Premonition,” Moscow Art Magazine, English Digest 1993-2005, 2005
“No Eyes,” Moscow Art Magazine, No.57, April 2005
“Blood of a Hacking Body,” Post-diaspora Exhibition Catalog, 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, 2005
“Representation and Legitimation,” ARTmargins, December 2005
“Interview with Vladimir Paperny,” ARTmargins, February 2005
“Post-diaspora: Statement and Premonition”, Moscow Art Magazine, No.56, December 2004
“Vy Da Vy”, Moscow Art Magazine, No.54, September 2004
“Quick Start Guide for Double-Detection” (with Ivan Razumov), Cabinet, No.14, 2004
“Right to Speak for Post-diaspora,” Moscow Art Magazine, No.53, May 2004
“Post-Socialist Inventory,” Art Journal, No.2, Summer 2004
“Net.Art of Protest,” Moscow Art Magazine, No.53, December 2003
“ArtKliazma,” ARTFORUM.com, September 2003
“Post-Diaspora: Notes on the Second World’s Exile, Postmodernism, and Diaspora Nationalism,” pH Magazine, No.3, 2003
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BIBLIOGRAPHY/PRESSPhilippe Dagen,
Yevgeniy Fiks, Galerie Sator, Le Monde, Sunday, February 5 to Monday, February 6, 2012
Jennifer Weiss,
After Romney's 'corporations are people too' -- the exhibit, AFP, January 22, 2012
Dan Tarnowski,
January 2012: Corporations are People Too @ Winkleman Gallery, Whitehot Magazine, January, 2012
Doug McClemont,
Doug McClemont's Top Ten New York Shows in January, Saatchi, January 19, 2012
The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won't Want to Miss, Art in America, January 19, 2012
Emily Nathan,
Gallery Shows NYC: The New York List, Corporations Are People Too, Artnet.com, January 9, 2012
Noah Dillon, "
Taking the Corps Out of Corporation," ArtSlant, January 9, 2012
Critics' Pick: Corporations are People Too, Time Out New York, January 5, 2012
Carolina A. Miranda,
This Week: Must-See Arts in the City, WNYC's Arts Datebook, January 4, 2012
Kathleen Massara,
Are Corporations People? Winkleman Gallery Weighs In, Huffington Post, January 4, 2012
Kristen Chappa.
The Workers, Frieze Magazine, Issue 143 November-December 2011
Dmitry Volkosh.
The Impossible of Any Community, Russian Journal, September 23, 2011
Innokenty Grekov,
Moscow Biennale Art Performance Brings Attention to Victims of Racist Violence. Human Rights First, September 8, 2011
Tamara Baranenkova
The exhibition "Impossible community" tells how to be together, RIA Novosti. September 8, 2011
Amy Griffin,
Mass MoCA's 'The Workers' Examines Current State of Labor, Times Union, July 3, 2011
Amanda Angel,
Red Kaddish—A Revolutionary Walking Tour, Time Out New York, May 12, 2011
Eric Shiner,
"Roving Eye: Warhol's Socialist Side", Art in America, April 15, 2011 (
pdf)
Tom Williams, "
Engineers of the Soul, Postmasters," Art in America, February 2011
Michael Rush, "
'Engineers of the Soul', Postmasters Gallery: Michael Rush hosts gallerists Magdalena Sawon and Tamas Banovich with artist Yegeniy Fiks," Rush Interactive, ArtonAir.org, December 10, 2010
Caroline Miranda,
Miami Art Fair Report: A Microscopic Brooklyn Bar and Other Treasures at 'Seven' WNYC.org, Dec. 2, 2010
Peter Crimmins, WHYY News (coverage of Communist Tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art), NPR, October 18, 2010
Miguel Amado, "
Critics Picks: Communist Conspiracy in Art Threatens American Museums," ARTFORUM, October 17, 2010
Olga Kopenkina, "
YEVGENIY FIKS, AYN RAND IN ILLUSTRATIONS, WINKLEMAN GALLERY, NEW YORK, JUNE 18 - JULY 30, 2010," ArtMargins, October 17, 2010 (
pdf)
Edith Newhall,
"'Communist Conspiracy' gets the space it deserves," Philadelphia Inquirer, September 26, 2010
Elena Sorokina, "
Communist Tour of MoMA," Moscow Art Magazine #77-78, July 2010
Andrew Russeth,
"In New York: Gallery Openings this Weekend," Artinfo.com, June 16, 2010
Valerie Gladstone,
“Mirror, Mirror: A Show of Portraits,” CityARTS,” April 20, 2010
"Post-Soviet Traumas: Interview with Yevgeniy Fiks," Idiommag.com. March 25, 2010
Barry Hoggard,
“Yevgeniy Fiks: Communist Tour of MoMA,” bloggy.com, March 3, 2010
James Wagner,
“Yevgeniy Fiks names names in Communist Tour of MoMA,” jameswagner.com, March 2010
Valentin Diaconov,
"Moscow Biennale Beats Odds," ARTINFO, September 28, 2009
Philipe Dagen,
“The Song of Russia,” Le Monde, Saturday-Sunday, 8-9 February 2009
"La Metro Goldwyn Mayer épinglée par un artiste russe", 20Minutes. January 23, 2009
Sydney J. Beveridge,
"De-fetishizing Lenin Kitsch,” Thing Theory, February 3, 2009
Lori Cole,
Critics' Picks Things Falls Apart, ARTFORUM, January 26, 2009
Michael Harvey,
“Yevgeniy Fiks,” Art in America, January 2009
Paddy Johnson,
"Yevgeniy Fiks at Winkleman Gallery," artfagcity.com, October 2, 2008
Catherine Spaeth,
"All in One Day: The Gallery Give-Away in Changing Economies," catherinesarttours.blogspot.com, September 29, 2008
Daniel Larkin,
"The Russian Soldier," ArtCal Zine, September 19, 2008
Colby Chamberlain,
Critics' Picks: Adopt Lenin, ARTFORUMSeptember 2008
Yaelle Amir ,
"Lenin Re-Commodified," ArtSlant New York, September 2008
Linda Park,
“Future without Utopia”, ARTmargins, July 2008
Olga Kopenkina and Yevgeniy Fiks, “Legally Soviet: A Conversation,”Rethinking Marxism, July 2008
Olga Kopenkina, "
Communist History, Unclassified,” Afterimage, May/June 2008
Ilya Budraitskis, “America’s “Other”, Moscow Art Magazine, #67/68, May 2008
Olga Kopenkina, “Introducing Yevgeniy Fiks”, Modern Painters, May 2008
(Links: Page
1,
2,
3)
Show and Tell, ARTFORUM, March 31, 2008
Pernilla Holmes,
“Blast from the Past,” ARTnews, January 2008
Editorial,
“Little-Read Book,” Harper’s, January 2008
Ilya Budraitskis, “Communist Party USA: Interview with Yevgeniy Fiks”, vpered.org.ru, November 2007
Yulia Tikhonova, “Communists with a Human Face”, Political Journal, No. 30 (173), October 2007
Olga Kopenkina, “Solitude of Collectivity”, Documenta 12 Magazines Online Journal, June 2007
Olga Kopenkina, “Corporate Face Off” in Lenin for Your Library? from Ante Projects, June 2007
Anna Malpas, “The Party Never Stopped”, The Moscow Times, June 8, 2007
Alexey Yuriev, “Communism Is Dead. But Communists Are Alive”, Moscow News, June 1, 2007
Editorial,
Thoroughly Modern Moscow, Financial Times, March 5, 2007
Antti Lahde, “Maistuuko Lenin McDonald’sille?” Aamulehti, February 1, 2007
Olga Kopenkina, "Introducing... Yevgeniy Fiks", NYFA Current, February 2007
Santtu Palm, “Lenin Matkasi Sahkopostissa Museonsa Seinalle,” Tori, January 24, 2007
Yulia Tikhonova,
In Conversation with Yevgeniy Fiks, ARTmargins, January 2007
Cindy Stockton Moore,
"Lenin, Libraries, and Legacies: An Interview with Yevgeniy Fiks", ducts.org, # 18, Winter 2007
Exhibition Reportage, TV Channel "Russia", September 7, 2006
Georgiy Litichevskiy, "Utopicheskoe Pervorodstvo", Moscow Art Magazine, #61/62, May 2006
Olga Kopenkina, "Odinochestvo Kollektivizma", Moscow Art Magazine, #61/62, May 2006
Anastasiya Mitushina,
"Songs of Russia", ARTmargins, May 2006
Yuliya Rakhimkulova, "21st Century Leniniana", Vecherniy Krasnoyarsk, April 19, 2006
Dena Shottenkirk,
"Art and Politics: Russia Redux", ARTmargins, January 2006
Diana Baldon,
Critics' Picks: Song of Russia, ARTFORUM, January 2006
"Svobodnoie Vremya", Domashniy Channel TV, January 13, 2006
"Sots Realism Made in USA…", gif.ru, December 22, 2005
Nick Stillman, "Samoderzhavnie Sandvichi V Chernobolskoi Zone", Moscow Art Magazine, #60, December 2005
Interview, Kultura TV Channel, December 24, 2005
Isabelle Dupuis, "Russia Redux /Schroeder Romero Gallery", NY Arts, November 2005
Holland Cotter,
"Enemy Image", New York Times, October 7, 2005
Eduard Rusakov,"Khudozhniki Muzeichikov Pobedili?" Krasnoyarskiy Rabochiy, July 6, 2005
Interview, Siberian TV Network, June 2005
John Kelsey,
Russian Front: The Moscow Biennale, ARTFORUM, April 2005
Anastasiya Mitushina, "Bon Voyage!", Moscow Art Magazine, #57, April 2005
Joyce Man, "Dark Diasporas", The Moscow Times, February 18, 2005
Irina Kulik, "Feminists and Immigrants at the Museum on Petrovka", Kommersant, February 4, 2005
Elena Sorokina, "The Art of Protest in American Galleries", JungeKunst, #61, January -March 2005
Interview, NTV Network, November 2004
Inga Melnikova, "War on a Tray", Chelyabinskiy Rabochiy, July 14, 2004
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EDUCATIONArt College in Memory of 1905 Revolution, Moscow (1987-1991)
V. I. Surikov Art Institute, Moscow (1991-1993)
Brooklyn College, New York, B.F.A. (1995-1997)
School of Visual Arts, New York, M.F.A. (1997-1999)
