Kosolapov Alexander

Bio

www.sotsart.com

1943 was born in Moscow

1950-1961 studied at the Moscow secondary art school

1962-1968 with a break in military service he studied at the sculptural faculty of the Moscow Higher School of Industrial Art (formerly Stroganovskoe)

1975 emigrated to the USA

Lives and works in New York, USA, and Moscow

Collections

Albertina Museum, Vienna

Art Museum University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Ljubljana

Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Worlen, Passau, Germany

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, USA

Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

National Jewish Museum, B’nai B’rith Klutznick, Washington

New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Stella Art Foundation, Moscow

Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany

The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, USA

State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

State Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

Art4.ru Museum, Moscow

Selected solo exhibitions

1985 Alexander Kosolapov. Semaphore Gallery, New York, USA

1987 Alexander Kosolapov. Galerie Anna Friebe, Cologne, Germany

1988 Alexander Kosolapov. Galerie Inge Baecker, Cologne, Germany

1990 Alexander Kosolapov. Berman Gallery, New York, USA

1991 Alexander Kosolapov. Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York, USA

Belkin, Chuikov, Kosolapov. Galerie Eva Poll, Berlin

1993 New Post-Communist Billboards oder Bilder aus dem Neuen Russland. Galerie Inge Baecker, Cologne, Germany

1994 Alexander Kosolapov. Galerie Vorsetzen, Hamburg, Germany

1997 Alexander Kosolapov. Galerie Karenina, Vienna

2000 Sots Art / Pop Art. Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, United States

2003 Mickey-Lenin. One Work Gallery, Moscow

Selected group exhibitions

1978 New Art from the Soviet Union. Pratt Institute Gallery, Colombia; Montgomery Hall, St’Mary College, Maryland, USA

1981 Nouvelles Tendences de l’Art Russe Non-Officiel. 1970-1980. Center Culturel de la Villedieu, Elancourt, France

Russian New Wave. Contemporary Russian Art Center, New York, USA

1983 Come Yesterday and You’ll Be First. City Without Walls Gallery, Newark; Contemporary Russian Art Center of America, Jersey City, United States

1984 Sots Art. Semaphore Gallery, New York, USA

Les Russes au present. Le center culturel de la Villedieu, Elancourt, France

1986 Sots Art. Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada

1987 Retrospection of the work of Moscow artists. 1957-1987. The Hermitage Amateur Society, exhibition hall at 100 Profsoyuznaya, Moscow

1989-1990 Transit: Russian Artists Between the East and West / Transit: Russian artists between East and West. Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, USA; Central House of Artists, Moscow; State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

1989 Reagan: American Icon. Central Gallery, Bucknell University, Louisburg, USA Hommage-Demontage. Neue Galerie - Ludwig Collection, Aachen; Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein; Stadtisches Museum, Gelsenkirchen, Germany; Provinciaalmuseum, Hasselt, Belgium

1990 Art et Publicite. Center Georges Pompidou, Paris; Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo

Shizokitay: Hallucination in power (exhibition of the Avant-Garde Club). Construction pavilion of VDNH on Frunzenskaya nab., Moscow

1990-1991 Another art. Moscow 1956-1976. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; State Russian Museum, Leningrad

1991 Kunst: Europa, Sovietunion. Kunstverein, Hannover, Germany

In de USSR en Erbuiten. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1992 Ex USSR. Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands

Sots-art. Museum of V.I. Lenin, Moscow

1993 3rd Minos Beach Sculpture Symposium. Agios Nikolaos, Greece

1994 An artist instead of a work, or Jump into the Void. Central House of Artists, Moscow

Before “Neo” and After “Post”. Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, USA

Who is Who. Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna

El Magico Mundo De Mickey Mouse. Cuartel conde Duque, Madrid; Palau Sant Jordi; Barcelona, Spain

II Cetinjski Bijenale. Cetinje, Montenegro

1995 Kunst im verborgenen. Nonkonformisten Russland 1957-1995. Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein; Documenta-Halle, Kassel; Staatliches Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg, Germany; Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", Moscow

Russian Jewish Artist in a Century of Change. Jewish Museum, New York, USA

Temporarily Possessed. New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA

1996 Here and There: Contemporary Artist from the Former Soviet Union. National Jewish Museum, B’nai B’rith Klutznick, Washington

1997 III Cetinjski Bijenale. Cetinje, Montenegro

1998 Russlands Zweite Avantgarde. Museum Moderner Kunst, Passau, Germany

Mouse: An American Icon. Alternative Museum, New York, USA

It’s the Real Thing. Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, United States

1999 Kunst im untergrund. Albertina Museum, Vienna

2002 Russian Revolutions. Singer Gallery, Mizel Center for Arts and Culture, Denver, United States

2003 Berlin - Moskau / Moskau - Berlin 1950-2000. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

Caution Religion! Museum and Community Center A. Sakharova, Moscow

2004 Berlin - Moscow / Moscow - Berlin 1950-2000. State Historical Museum, Moscow

2004-2005 Warszawa-Moskwa / Moscow-Warsaw. 1900-2000. Zache˛ta Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw; State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

2005 Russia! Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Russian pop art. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Katharina prospekt. Modemuseum, Antwerp, Belgium

2006 Branding. Center PasquArt, Kunsthaus d’art, Bill Bien, Switzerland

Unlearn. Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada

2007 New Sculptures. Galerie Vallois Sculptures, Paris

Sots-art. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; La Maison Rouge, Paris

2008 Die totale Aufklärung - Moskauer Konzeptkunst. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

2008-2009 That Obscure Object of Art. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Ca’Rezzonico, Venice, Italy

2010 Portraits of second-hand. Stella Art Foundation, Moscow