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Vitaly Komar & Alexander Melamid

Bio
  Vitaliy Komar
1943 was born in Moscow
1958-1960 studied at the Moscow secondary art school
1962-1967 studied at the Moscow Higher Art and Industrial College (formerly Stroganov)
1968-1974 Member of the Moscow Union of Artists, expelled
1977 emigrated to Israel
1978 moved to USA
  Lives and works in New York, USA
  Alexander Melamid
1945 was born in Moscow
1958-1960 studied at the Moscow secondary art school
1962-1967 studied at the Moscow Higher Art and Industrial College (formerly Stroganov)
1968-1974 Member of the Moscow Union of Artists, expelled
1977 emigrated to Israel
1978 moved to USA
  Lives and works in New Jersey, USA
  Worked together in 1965-2004
Collections
  Albertina Museum, Vienna
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
  Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
  Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
  Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
  Stella Art Foundation, Moscow
  Victoria and Albert Museum, London
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
  State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Selected group exhibitions
1967 Retrospectivism. Cafe "Blue Bird", Moscow
1973 Paradise. Private apartment in Kolomenskoye, Moscow
1974 Art belongs to the people. Private apartment, Moscow
1976 Color Is a Mighty Power! Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
1977 Komar & Melamid. Ohio University Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, USA
  Komar & Melamid. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
1978 MATRIX 43. Wadsworth Atheneum. Hartford, USA
  The Temple. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
  TRANSSTATE. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
1980 Komar & Melamid. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
  Retrospective. Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University. Wichita, USA
1982 Sots Art. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
1983 Komar & Melamid. Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, USA
  Komar & Melamid. Portland Center for Visual Arts, Portland, USA
1984 Business as Usual. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
  Komar & Melamid. Saidye Bronfman Center, Montreal, Canada
  An International. Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture. Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1984-1985 Artistic Collaboration in the 20th Century. Hirshhorn Museum, Washington
1985 New Paintings. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
  Komar & Melamid. CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
  Komar & Melamid. University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa, United States
1985-1986 Komar & Melamid. Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Arts
  Council Gallery, Belfast, UK; Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
1986 Komar & Melamid. Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
  Anarchistic Synthesism. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
1987 Komar & Melamid. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
1987-1988 Komar & Melamid. Artspace, Sydney; Institute for Modern Art, Brisbane; School of art
  Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart; Australian Center of Contemporary Art, Melbourne; Praxis, Perth; Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia
1988 Komar & Melamid. Galerie Kicken Pauseback, Cologne, Germany
  Komar & Melamid. Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, USA
  New Work. Van Straaten Gallery, Chicago, USA
  Death Poems. Moriarty Gallery, Madrid
  Death Poems. Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, West Berlin
  A Diary’s Pages 1985-1988. Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam
1989 Komar & Melamid. Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, United States
  Bergen Point Brass Foundry, Bayonne. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
1989-1990 Russians in America. University of North Texas, Denton; Sunrise Museums, Charleston; Alaska State Museum, Juneau; Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage; University of Alaska, Fairbanks; Washington University, St. Louis; Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, USA
1990 Painting: 1980 to 1986. Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA
  Grand Lobby Installation: Yalta and Moscow. Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
  Forty Monotypes. South Campus Art Gallery, Miami Dade Community College, Miami, USA
  Hot Heavy Sears and The Double Revelation. Vinalhaven Press, New York, USA
1991 Paintings for the Holy Rosary Church. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
  Komar and Melamid: Art / History. The University Gallery, Memphis State, Memphis, USA
1992 Komar & Melamid: Searstyle with Psalms. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
1993 Death & Immortality. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
  Creeping line on a step pyramid. M. Gelman Gallery, Moscow
1994 Choice of the people. M. Gelman Gallery, Moscow
1994-1995 People’s Choice. Alternative Museum, New York; Washington Project for the Arts,
  Washington; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
1995 The Most Wanted Paintings. Dia Center for the Arts, New York, USA
1996 Komar, Melamid and Renee. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
  Komar & Melamid. Reykjavik Municipal Art Museum, Reykjavik
1997 American Dreams. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, USA
  Komar & Melamid: Die Beliebten und Ungeliebten Bilder. Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
  The Most Wanted - The Most Unwanted Painting. Kunsthalle, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1998 Komar & Melamid. Kunsthalle, Vienna
  Our Moscow through the eyes of a monkey. M. Gelman Gallery, Moscow
1998-2000 The People’s Choice. The Akron Art Museum, Akron, USA; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Alberta, Canada; Nevada Museum of Art, Reno; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA; Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Canada; University of Missouri - Kansas City Art Gallery, Kansas City; Olin Arts Center, Bates College, Lewiston, USA
1999 Animal Kingdom: Elephant Paintings and Mikki-chimpanzee’s Photographs. La 48 Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Russo, Venice, Italy
2001 American Dreams. Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, USA
  Wybór społeczen´stwa. Najbardziej poz ° a¸ dany i najmniej poz ° a¸ dany: Malarstwo. Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw
2002 Komar and Melamid’s Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project. Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, United States
  Do not make yourself an idol. M. Gelman Gallery, Moscow
2002-2004 Symbols of the Big Bang. Yeshiva University Museum, Center for Jewish History, New York; The Temple Judea Museum, Elkins Park, United States
2003 Komar & Melamid: Desperately Seeking a Masterpiece. Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Hiba, Japan