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Bakhchanyan Vagrich - Biography

 


 

Vagrich Bakhchanyan

 

1938

born in Kharkov, Ukraine

1967-74

lived and worked in Moscow

Since

1974 lives and works in New York

 

Personal exhibitions

1968

Café "Blue Bird" Moscow

1973

Gallery Charley Chevalier, Paris

1974

Gallery Gras, Vienna

Gallery Sazenhofen, Salzburg

1977

Gallery Gras, Vienna

Save Time. 30 shows on the same day at 30 New York City galleries

1978

First Russian Propaganda Art Performance, Modern Art Museum, New York

1982

Micro Hall Center, Edewecht, Germany

2003

The National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow

2007

ERA Foundation, Moscow

 

Group exhibitions

1965

Unofficial Artists and Poets. Kharkov. Ukraine

1974

Progressive Trends, Moscow 1957-60. Museum of Bochum, Germany

1976

International Artmarket, Dusseldorf, Germany

Contemporary Russian Art. Palais des Congres, Paris

1977

New Art from the Soviet Union, Arts Club of Washington

Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, US

Biennale in Venice. La Nuova Arte Sovietica.

1978

Non-Conformist Art from the Soviet Union. Lodi, Italy

New Non-Official Art from the USSR. Bellinzona, Switzerland

Pratt Manhattan Center, New York

The New Soviet Art. Turin, Italy

1979

Artists Books at the Modern Art Museum, New York

1981

Artists Books at Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris

New Russian Wave. Contemporary Russian Center, New York

XVI Biennale, Sao Paolo, Brazil

1982

Samizdat Art, Franklin Furnace Gallery, New York

1991

Other Art. Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow

1995

Kunst im Verborgenen-Nonkonformisten Rußland 1957-1995

Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen-am-Rhein, Germany

Documenta Halle, Kassel, Germany

Staatliches Lindenau Museum, Altenburg, Germany

Manezh Gallery, Moscow

1996

Nonkonformisten, Second Russian Avantgarde, 1955-1988

(Bar-Ghera's art collection)

Ludwig Museum at the Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg

Tretiakov State Gallery, Moscow

Stedel Institute of Art, Frankfurt-am-Meine

1997

Galleries of the Bayer Culture Department, Leverkusen, Germany

Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany

1998

Präprintium, Moskauer Bücher aus dem Samizdat. Berlin

Staatsbibliotek-Preußicher Kulturbesitz

Präprintium, Moskauer Bücher aus dem Samizdat. Bremen Neues Museum

Wesserburg

2000

Non-conformisti dalla Collezione Bar-Gera. Verona, Italy

Cold War/Hot Culture. M. Barrick Museum, Las Vegas

2001

Präprintium, Moskauer Bücher aus dem Samizdat.. Museum für Literatur am Oberrhein, Karlsruhe, Germany

2003

Multiples. Kingsborough College of CUNY, New York

2005

Avantgarde im Untergrund. Russische Nonkonformisten aus der Sammlung Bar-Gera. Kunstmuseum, Bern

New Acquisitions. Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow.

Author's Books-II. Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow

Moscow Grafika: Artists' Prints 1961-2005. International Print Center New York and the Kolodzei Art Foundation, Inc.

2006

Artists Against the State: Perestroika Revisited. Feldman Gallery, New York

Russian Art of the 20th century: Then and Now. Ober Gallery, Kent, Connecticut

National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev

2007

SOTSART. at the Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow

SOTSART. at the Maison Rouge, Paris

Forbidden Art at the Sakharov Center, Moscow

Word and Image. Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow

Adventures of the Black Square. Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

Sztuka Buntu. Historical Museum, Lodz, Poland

Sztuka Buntu. Regional Museum, Radomski, Poland

The Destiny of a Country - the Destiny of an Artist. Primorskaia State Picture Gallery, Vladivostok, Russia

Russian America. Primorskaia State Picture Gallery, Vladivostok, Russia

 

Collections

Bar-Gera Collection, Köln, Germany

Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine

Paul and Gerthy Quaedvlieg Collection, Netherlands

Paul Getty Museum of Art, US

Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers U, US

 



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