1941 - 2018

Soviet and American artist and sculptor. One of the most famous representatives of the Sots Art movement. From 1956 to 1961, he studied at the Moscow Secondary Art School of the USSR Academy of Arts (MSKHSh). In 1961, he entered the Moscow Higher School of Art and Design (formerly the Stroganov School), in the monumental and decorative sculpture department. From 1966 to 1969, he worked in the same studio with A. Kosolapov and B. Orlov. Since 1977, he has participated in exhibitions abroad. He became acquainted with the Sots Art movement in New York in the early 1980s. In 1983, his first solo exhibition abroad was held at the Strorefront Gallery in New York. In 2001, he exhibited at the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The works are kept in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, the State Museum of Modern Art "Centre Georges Pompidou", Paris, France, etc.