About the artist:

11 October 1941 Born in the village of Mikhalevo, Kalinin (now Tver) region, USSR 1956 - 61 Studied at the secondary art school, Moscow 1964 - 69 Studied at Moscow School of Art and Industry (former Stroganoff School) From 1979 Lives and works in New York, USA SOLO EXHIBITIONS 1976 7 Begovaya, Moscow, USSR 1983 Storefront Gallery, New York, USA 1985 Storefront Gallery, New York, USA 1986 Semaphore Gallery, New York, USA Zues-Trabia Gallery, New York, USA (catalogue) 1987 Glasnost, Zues-Trabia Gallery, New York, USA 1988 Trabia-MacAfee Gallery, New York, USA 1990 Eduard Nakhamkin Fine Arts, New York, USA (catalogue) 1990 Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland 1992 Berman Gallery, New York, USA (catalogue) 1994 Berman Gallery, New York, USA (catalogue) 1995 Farsettiarte, Prato, Italy (catalogue) 1997 Galleria Severiarte, Bologna, Italy 2001 The Shadows of Twentieth Century Sculptures, Russian Pavilion, 49 Venice Biennale (catalogue) 2005 Leonid Sokov, Sculptures Paintings Installations Drawing, Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy (catalogue) 2009 Leonid Sokov, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1976 Unofficial exhibition in Leonid Sokov's studio, Moscow, USSR 1977 La nuova arte sovietica, una prospettiva non ufficiale (New Soviet Art, an Unofficial Perspective), Venice Biennale, Italy (catalogue) 1982 Russian Samizdat Art, Franklin Furnace Gallery, New York, USA 1982 Allen Stone Gallery, New York, USA 1986 Exit Art, Group show New York, USA 1986-87 Sots Art, New Museum, New York, USA (catalogue) traveling exhibition Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary, Alberta, Canada everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, USA Gallery Starford, Ontario, Canada Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 1989-90 Transit: Russian Artist between the East and West, Fine Art Museum of Long Island, NY, USA Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia Central Exhibition Hall, Krymskiy Val, Moscow, Russia (catalogue) 1991 Soviet Contemporary Arts, From the Thaw to Perestroika, Setagaya Museum, Tokyo, Japan 1991 In de USSR en erbuiten, Stedelik Museum, Amsterdam, Holland (catalogue) 1995 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea (catalogue) 1994-98 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, USA (catalogue) 1999 Soviet and Post-Soviet Sots-Art and American Pop Art Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA (catalogue) 2002-04 Malevich and Film, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon, Portugal (catalogue) Malevich and Film, Fundacion "La Caixa", Madrid, Spain (catalogue) 2003-04 Berlin Moscow / Moscow Berlin Moskau Depaum, Martin Gropius Bau,Berlin, Germany Stootliches Histte Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia (catalogue) 2004 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea (catalogue) 2005 Shadow Play, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany; Landesgalerie Linz, Austria (catalogue) 2005 - 2006 Russia!, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA(catalogue) Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain(catalogue) 2006 Territories of Terror, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston,Massachusetts, USA (catalogue) 2007 Sots Art, Tretykov Gallery, Moscow, Russia (2-nd Moscow Biennale), Moscow,Russia Sots Art, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France 2007 ATTITUDE The House of Human Beings Authentically Blessed Jubilance Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan 2008 Memoria- Casting a Gaze, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan THIS OBSCURE OBJECT OF ART,Stella Art Foundation, Collection of Contemporary Russian Art at the Kunsthistorische Museum, Vienna, Austia THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF ART, from Stella Art Foundation,Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia, Venice, Italy (as part of the 53-rd Venice Biennale) 2008 - 2009 Total Enlightment. Moscow Conceptual Art 1960 – 1990, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany Fundation Juan March, Madrid, Spain (catalog) Russian Povera.An exhibition of contemporary art River Station Hall,Perm, Russia 'Red October', (3-th Moscow Biennale), Moscow,Russia SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA National Gallery of Australia, Sydney, Australia Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia Tretykov Gallery, Moscow, Russia Russian Museum , St Petersburg, Russia Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA Cremona Foundation, Maryland, USA Duke University Museum of Art, North Carolina, USA Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA Art Gallery of the Ripon College, Ripon Wisconsin,USA Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan