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Leonid Sokov

Bio
1941 was born in s. Mikhalevo, Kalinin region, USSR
1961 graduated from Moscow High School of Art
1961; 1964-1969 studied at the sculpture department of the Moscow Higher Art and Industrial School (formerly Stroganov)
since 1972 member of the Moscow Union of Artists
1979 emigrated to Austria
1980 moved to USA
  Lives and works in New York, USA
Collections
  Ca ’La Ghironda - Museo d’Arte Classica, Moderna e Contemporanea, Bologna, Italy
  Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA
  Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
  State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
  State Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
Selected solo exhibitions
1976 One-day exhibition. Exhibition Hall MOSH on Begovaya, 7, Moscow
1983 Question and Exclamation. Storefront Gallery, New York, USA
1985 Sculpted Soviets. Storefront Gallery, New York, USA
1986 Leonid Sokov. Semaphore Gallery, New York, USA
  Leonid Sokov. A & P Gallery, New York, USA
  Leonid Sokov. Zeus-Trabia Gallery, New York, USA
1987 Glasnost. Zeus-Trabia Gallery, New York, USA
1988 Leonid Sokov. Trabia-MacAfee Gallery, New York, USA
1990 Leonid Sokov. Eduard Nakhamkin Fine Arts, New York, USA
1991 Leonid Sokov. Galeria Carini, Florence, Italy
1992 Leonid Sokov. Berman Gallery, New York, USA
1994 Leonid Sokov. Berman Gallery, New York, USA
1995 Leonid Sokov. Farsettiarte, Prato, Italy
1997 Leonid Sokov. Galeria Severiarte, Bologna, Italy
1999 Leonid Sokov. Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
2001 The Shadows of 20th Century Sculpture. La 49 Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Russo, Venice, Italy
2004 Leonid Sokov. The Albright College, Cultural Center, Reading, United States
Selected group exhibitions
1977 La nuova arte Sovietica: Una prospettiva non ufficiale. La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
1978 La nuova arte sovietica. Palazzo Reale, Turin, Italy
1979 20 Jahre unabhongige Kunst aus der Sowjetunion. Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
1981 Nouvelles Tendences de l’Art Russe Non-Officiel. 1970-1980. Center Culturel de la Villedieu, Elancourt, France
  25 Years of Soviet Unofficial Art. 1956-1981. Museum of Soviet Unofficial Art, Jersey City, United States
  Russian New Wave. Contemporary Russian Art Center of America, New York, USA
1983 Come Yesterday and You’ll Be First. City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, USA
1984 Russian Mock-Heroic Style. Semaphore Gallery, New York, USA
  New Portrait. P. S. 1 Museum, Long Island, United States
  East-Europian Show. No Se No Gallery, New York; Nico Smith Gallery, New York, USA
  Micro Show. NOW gallery, New York, USA
  Les Russes au present. Le center culturel de la Villedieu, Elancourt, France
1985 Surrealist Brunch. No Se No Gallery, New York - Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, USA
  Monsters Show. Nico Smith Gallery, New York, USA
  New Sculpture. NOW Gallery, New York, USA
  Eastern Europeans in New York. La Galeria en Behio, New York; St. Mark’s Gallery,
  New York; Semaphore Gallery, New York, USA
  Microwave. NOW Gallery, New York; A & P Gallery, New York, USA
  Sculpture. No Se No Gallery, New York; A & P Gallery, New York, USA
1986 The Rivingston School. 1st Street Gallery, New York, USA
  Dolls ’Show. Art Gallery of Long Island University, New York, USA
  Russia: Dreams and Realities. Zeus-Trabia Gallery, New York, USA
  Sculpture Garden. Zeus-Trabia Gallery, New York, USA
  Church and State. Zeus-Trabia Gallery, New York, USA
  Transculture, Transmedia. Exit Art, New York, USA
  Sots Art. New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
1987 New Voices. Pondo del Sol, Washington
  Art on the Beach. Hunter’s Point, New York, USA
  Retrospection of the work of Moscow artists. 1957-1987. The Hermitage Amateur Society, Moscow
1988 Birds and Beasts? Home Box Office, New York, USA
  Vital Signs. Main Street Windows, New York, USA
1990 Transit: Russian Artists Between the East and West. Eduard Nakhamkin Fine Arts, New York; Pine Arts Museum of Long Island, New York; State Russian
  Museum, Leningrad; State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
  The logic of paradox. Moscow Youth Palace, Moscow
  Towards the object. Gardeners Gallery (exhibition hall of the Krasnogvardeisky district), Moscow
1990-1991 Another art. Moscow 1956-1976. State Tretyakov Gallery,
  Moscow; State Russian Museum, Leningrad
1991 Back to Square One. Berman - E. N. Gallery, New York, USA
1992 Sots-art. Museum of V.I. Lenin, Moscow
1993 Coca-Cola. Galeria Bianca Pilat, Rome
1994 II Cetinjski Bienale II. 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
1999 It’s the Real Thing. Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
2000 Contemporary Russian Masters. Part 2. Sloane Gallery of Art, Denver, USA
  Cold War - Hot Culture. University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
2003 M_ARS - Art and War. Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
  Remembrance: Russian Post-Modern Nostalgia. Yeshiva University Museum, New York, USA
  Berlin - Moskau / Moskau - Berlin 1950-2000. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
2004 5th Gwangju Biennal. Gwangju, South Korea
  Berlin - Moscow / Moscow - Berlin 1950-2000. State Historical Museum, Moscow
2005 Schatten und Licht in der zeitgenössischen kunst. Kunsthalle zu Kiel der Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany
  Remembrance: Russian Post-Modern Nostalgia. Grossman Gallery, Williams Visual Arts Building, Easton, USA
  Russian pop art. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
  Russia! Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
  Schattenspiel. Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz, Austria
2006 Masters of Humor & Satire. Sloane Gallery of Art, Denver, United States
  ¡Rusia! Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao, Spain
2006-2007 Territories of Terror: Mythologies and Memories of the GULAG in Contemporary Russian-
  American Art. Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, USA
2007 Bare Life. Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem, Israel
  Sots-art. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; La Maison Rouge, Paris
  Attitude 2007. Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
2008 Die totale Aufklärung. Moskauer Konzeptkunst. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany 2008-2009
  That Obscure Object of Art. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Ca ’Rezzonico, Venice, Italy