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Valera and Natasha Cherkashin

Bio
  www.cherkashinart.com
  Valera Cherkashin
1948 was born in Kharkov, USSR
1978 the first solo exhibition was held in Kharkov with Boris Mikhailov and Klim
1978-1980 worked with the creative "Sterligov Group" in Leningrad
1980 moved to Moscow
since 1984 Member of the Moscow City Committee of Charts
1990 joined the Union of Artists of the USSR
2003 joined the Union of Russian Photo Artists
  Natasha Cherkashina
1958 was born in Damascus
1980 graduated from Moscow State Pedagogical Institute. V. I. Lenin
since 1994 member of the International Federation of Artists
  Live and work in Moscow
Collections
  Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
  Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA
  Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
  Kolodzei Art Foundation, Highland Park, USA
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
  Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
  Santa Fe Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, USA
  Stella Art Foundation, Moscow
  The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, USA
  State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
  Museum of Modern Art, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Selected solo exhibitions
1994 Moscow’s Red Square in Santa Fe. Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, United States
1996 German Atlantis. Olympia Stadium, Berlin
1997 The End of the Epoch. Kunstverein Rosenheim, Rosenheim, Germany
2000 From USSR to Russia. International Center of Photography, Shadai Gallery, Tokyo
2002 Mirages of Empires. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2004 Sport in Arts. Aphrodites of Russia. Municipal Art Center, Athens
2005 Moscow. Love Artist’s network of Riverdale, Toronto, Canada
2007 Night with a Pioneer Leader. Museum of Modern Art, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
2008 Metro in art and art in the metro. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Selected group exhibitions
1991 Artists - Malevich. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
1994 4 + 4 Late Modern. Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, United States
1995 New Acquirements. Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, United States
1997 From Rodchenko to the present day. Moscow House of Photography, Moscow
1998 Russian Constructivist Ruts: Present concerns. University of Maryland, University of New Hampshire; Dickinson College, The World Bank Headquarters, Washington
1999 Soviet & Post Soviet Sots Art & American Pop Art. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, United States
  XX century in covers. State Museum of Fine Arts. A. S. Pushkina, Moscow
2000 Moscow in the period 1920-2000. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
2001 I International Festival of Photography "ProVision". Nizhny Novgorod Fair, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2002 Moscow Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow. Museum of Russian Art, Ramat Gan, Israel
2003 IDEA Photographic: After Modernism. Museum of New Mexico, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, United States
2004 My Kabakov. Stella Art Gallery, Moscow
2006 Photobiennale 2006. Central House of Artists, Moscow
2007 The Adventures of the Black Square. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Works

Valera and Natasha Cherkashin. Jump into the Black Square. 1990. Black and white gelatin print, newspaper, ink, watercolor, print, acrylic, collage.100x80 cm.
Natasha and Valera Cherkashin. Love for Voroshilov Shooter. From the People Love Art for the People series. 1995. Black and white gelatin print, newspaper, ink, watercolor, print, acrylic, collage. 113x93 cm.
Natasha and Valera Cherkashin. TV of Cherkashin’s Metropolitan Museum. Removing Lenin’s Monument. 1990. Black and white gelatin print, newspaper, ink, watercolor, print, collage. 80x100 cm.
Valera and Natasha Cherkashin. Jump into the Black Square. 1990. Black and white gelatin print, newspaper, ink, watercolor, print, acrylic, collage.100x80 cm.
Natasha and Valera Cherkashin. Love for Voroshilov Shooter. From the People Love Art for the People series. 1995. Black and white gelatin print, newspaper, ink, watercolor, print, acrylic, collage. 113x93 cm.
Natasha and Valera Cherkashin. TV of Cherkashin’s Metropolitan Museum. Removing Lenin’s Monument. 1990. Black and white gelatin print, newspaper, ink, watercolor, print, collage. 80x100 cm.
Books
My Kabakov