Valera Cherkashin
1948
Born in Kharkov, Ukraine
1963
The first conceptual actions
1978
First personal exhibition in Kharkov together with
Boris Mikhailov and Klim
1978-80
Worked with the creative group by the name of Sterligov's
Group in Leningrad, USSR
1980
Moved to Moscow
1984
Became a member of Moscow Union
of Graphic Artists
1990
Became a member of the USSR
Union of Artists
2003
Became a member of the Union of
Photo Artists of Russia
Natasha Cherkashin
1958
Born in Damascus, Syria
1980
Graduated from the Moscow State
Teacher's Training
University
1994
Became a member of the
International Federation of Artists
Selected personal exhibitions and
installations:
1984
The Museum of Architecture.
Moscow
1994
Moscow's Red Square in Santa Fe.
Museum of Fine
Arts, Santa Fe,
USA
1996
German Atlantis. Underwater exhibition. Olympia Stadium. Berlin
1997
USSR Atlantis. Swimming pool. University of Maryland. USA
The End of the Epoch. Kunstverein Rosenheim. Rosenheim, Germany
The Mystery Play of Berlin. The Goethe Institute. Moscow
1998
The End of the Epoch. Installation. The World Bank, Washington DC
1999
Goodbye Favorite European Portraits: hello
Euro. World Bank Headquarters Atrium Pool, Washington DC
The Culture of European Portraits on Bank Notes. The Financial Ministry of Russian
Federation, Moscow
2000
From USSR
to Russia.
International Center
of Photography, Shadai Gallery, Tokyo
"Empires": Russia
Past and Present.
Together with Bill Wright and Steve Yates. Irving
Arts Center,
Dallas, USA
Mirages of Empires. PhotoEspana 2000, Caja Madrid,
Madrid
2002
Moscow, Putin's Era. Columbia University, New York,
USA
Favorite Portraits of
People in the World.
Fleet Bank, Empire
State Building.
New York, USA
Supremacist Meditation. Intersection, Kara Kurum, Mongolia
Mirages of Empires. The State
Russian Museum.
St. Petersburg, Russia
2004
Sport in Arts. Aphrodites of Russia.
Municipal art Center, Athens, organized by Stella
Art Gallery
2005
Futurism & Nostalgia. Great
Neck Arts Center, New York, USA
Gallery of Martha Schneider, Chicago, USA
Moscow. Love. Artist's network of Riverdale. Toronto,
Canada.
Organized by Stella Art
Gallery
2006
A Night with a Pioneer Leader. Glaz
Gallery, Moscow House of Photography, Moscow
2007 Metro New York
- Moscow.
Harriman Institute, Columbia
University, New York, USA
A Night with a Pioneer Leader. Museum
of Modern Art, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
The End of the Epoch. Project Museum
of the USSR.
Andrey Sakharov Museum & Public
Center. Moscow
2008
Metro in Art & Art in Metro. Moscow Museum
of Modern Art. Moscow
Selected group exhibitions:
1991
Artists developing the style of Malevich. The State Tretyakov
Gallery. Moscow
1994
The New Photoart from Russia. Karlsruhe, Frankfurt, Hanover, Düsseldorf, Herten,
Germany
4+4 Late Modern. Museum of Fine Arts, Santa
Fe, USA
1995
New Acquirements. Museum
of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, USA
Collects of Olga Hirshhorn. The Corcoran Gallery, Washington
DC.
1997
From Rodchenko to our days. Moscow House of Photography, Moscow
1999
Soviet & Post Soviet Sots Art &
American Pop Art. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis,
USA
The XX Century reflected in Covers. Pushkin
State Museum
of Fine Arts, Moscow
1998
Russian Constructivist Ruts: Present
concerns. University of Maryland, University
of New Hampshire; Dickinson College,
The World Bank Headquarters, Washington
DC
2000
Moscow in the period of 1920-2000. Moscow Museum
of Modern Art, Moscow
2002
Moscow Yesterday, Today &Tomorrow. Museum of Russian Art. Ramad-gan, Israel
2003
IDEA Photographic: After Modernism. Museum of New Mexico,
Museum of Fine
Arts, Santa Fe,
USA
2004
My Kabakov. Stella Art
Gallery. Moscow
2006
Photo Biennalle 2006. Central House of Artists, Moscow
2007
Sots art. Political art in Russia. Maison Rouge Gallery. Paris
New Angelarium. Moscow Museum
of Contemporary Arts, Moscow
Adventures of the Black Square. The State
Russian Museum,
St. Petersburg, Russia
Public collections:
The Art
Institute of Chicago, Chicago,
USA
Boston
Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston,
USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia,
USA
The Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
USA
Santa Fe Museum of Fine Art, Santa
Fe, USA
The Zimmerli Art Museum,
Rutgers University, USA
Frederick R. Weisman
Art Museum, University
of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Newseum, Washington, D.C.
The Library
of Congress, Washington, D.C.
New York Public Library, New York, USA
The Harry Ransom
Humanities Research
Center, University
of Texas, Austin, USA
World Bank,
Washington D.C.
The State Russian
Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Museum am
Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin
International
Center of Photography,
Tokyo
Kolodzei
Art Foundation, Highland Park,
USA
MoMAoD, Rostov on Don,
Russia
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