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Vagrich Bakhchanyan

Bio
1938 was born in Kharkov, Ukrainian SSR
1960 moves to Moscow
1974 emigrates to the USA
2009 passed away in New York, USA
Collections
  State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
  State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
  State Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
  National Art Museum of Ukraine, Kiev
  Paul Getty Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
  Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers Universiry, New Brunswick, USA
Selected solo exhibitions
1968 Vagrich Bahchanyan. Cafe "Blue Bird". Moscow
1973 Vagrich Bakhchanyan. Galerie Charley Chevalier. Paris
1974 Vagrich Bakhchanyan. Galerie Gras, Vienna
  Vagrich Bakhchanyan. Galerie Sazenhofen, Salzburg, Austria
1977 Vagrich Bakhchanyan. Galerie Gras, Vienna
  Save Time. New York, USA
1979 Agitpunkt (performance). Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1982 Vagrich Bakhchanyan. Galerie Micro Hall Center, Edewecht, Germany
2003 Not a day without a line. State Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2007 Labor and days. Era Foundation, Moscow
2008 Picasso - USSR. Gallery "pop / off / art", Moscow
Selected group exhibitions
1965 Unofficial artists and poets. Kharkov, Ukraine
1974 Progressive Strömungen in Moskau 1957-70. Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
1976 La peinture russe contemporaine. Palais des Congres, Paris
1977 New Art from the Soviet Union. Arts Club of Washington, Washington
  Exhibition in Favor of the Children of the Soviet Political Prisoners. Parkway Focus Gallery, London
  Nonkonformisten aus Moskau. Galerie Stantschev, Dusseldorf, Germany
  La nuova arte sovietica: una prospettiva non ufficiale. La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
1978 Aspetti e documentazione degli artisti non conformisti dell` Union Sovietica. Museo Civico di Lodi, Lodi, Italy
  Rassegna sul dissenso culturale nell`Est europio. Scuola Art e Mestiert, Aula Magna Scuola cantonale di Commercio, Aula Magna Municipio, Sala Patriziale, Bellinzona, Switzerland
  New Art from the Soviet Union. Pratt Institute Gallery, Colombia; Montgomery Hall, St'Mary College, Maryland, USA
  L'art russe non officiel. Musee des Beaux-Arts de Chartres. Chartres, France
1979 Artists Books. Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Center Georges Pompidou, Paris
  20 Jahre unabhongige Kunst aus der Sowjetunion. Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
1980 Premiere Biennale des painters russes. Vesinet, Center des arts et loisses, Montgeron, France
  Nonconformists. Contemporary Commentary from the Soviet Union. Art Gallery, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA
1981 Russian New Wave. Contemporary Russian Art Center, New York, USA
  Nouvelles Tendences de l'Art Russe Non-Officiel. 1970-1980. Center Culturel de la Villedieu, Elancourt, France
  16 Bienal de Sao Paulo. Sao Paulo, Brazil
1982 - 1984 Russian Samizdat Art. Franklin Furnace Gallery, New York; Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester; Chappaqua Gallery, Westchester; Washington Project for the Arts, Washington; Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York; Anderson Gallery, Commonwelth University, Richmond; Hewlett Gallery, Carnegy-Mellon University, Pittsburgh; LACE Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1984 Les Russes au present. Le center culturel de la Villedieu, Elancourt, France
1990-91 Another art. Moscow 1956-1976. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; State Russian Museum, Leningrad
1995 Kunst im verborgenen. Nonkonformisten Russland 1957-1995. Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen on the Rhine; documenta-Halle, Kassel; Staatliches Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg, Germany; Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", Moscow
1996 Nonconformists. The second Russian avant-garde. 1955-1988. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
1997 The story in the faces. 1956-1996. Central Exhibition Hall, Nizhny Novgorod; Regional Art Museum, Samara; Perm City Art Gallery, Perm; Novosibirsk Regional Art Gallery, Novosibirsk; Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Yekaterinburg
1998-2001 Praprintium. Staatsbibliothek, Berlin; Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen; Museum fuer literatur am Oberrhein, Karlsruhe, Germany; Oesterreichischen Nationalbibliothek, Vienna; Minoritenkloster, Graz, Austria
2000 Non-conformisti dalla Collezione Bar-Gera. Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy
  Cold War / Hot Culture. M. Barrick Museum, Las Vegas, United States
2003 Multiples. Kingsborough College of CUNY, New York, USA
  Ortstermin Moskau - 1970 und die Zeit danach. Galerie Sandmann, Berlin
2005 Avantgarde im Untergrund. Russische Nonkonformisten aus der Sammlung Bar-Gera. Kunstmuseum, Bern
  New Arrivals. National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
  Moscow Grafika: Artists' Prints 1961-2005. International Print Center New York. New York, USA
  Author's book - 2. State Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2006 Artists Against The State: Perestroika Revisited. Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, USA
  Russian Art of the 20th century: Then and Now. Ober Gallery, Kent, USA
2007 Sots Art. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; La Maison Rouge, Paris
  Forbidden Art 2006. Museum and Community Center named after A. Sakharova, Moscow
  Word and image. National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
  The Adventures of the Black Square. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
  Sztuka Buntu. Muzeum Historii Miasta Łodzi, Lodz; Muzeum Regionalne, Radomsky, Poland
  The fate of the country is the fate of the artist. Primorsky State Art Gallery, Vladivostok
  Russian America. Primorsky State Art Gallery, Vladivostok
2008 +7 (495) ... State Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
  Moscow - New York = Parallel Play. Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
2008-2009 That Obscure Object of Art. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Ca 'Rezzonico, Venice