OLEG VASSILIEV

 

Oleg Vassiliev Self-Portrait, 1977. Indian ink, crayon, collage. (fragment)

Oleg Vassiliev

 Born in Moscow in 1931. Graduated from the Surikov Art Institute (Moscow) in 1958.

Lives and works in New York.

Exhibitions,

Public Collections,

Selected books and catalogues,

Articles and reviews,

Selected Works,

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Selected Exhibitions

2000 "Recent Works by Oleg Vassiliev." Galerie Andy Jllien, Zurich, Switzerland.

"The Past Isn't Dead. It isn't Even Past. Recent Paintings by Oleg Vassiliev." Art Gallery University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, MA.

"Art of XXth Century" Permanent Exhibition. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

"Seeing Isn't Believing: Russian Art Since Glasnost." The Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exter Academy, Exter, NH, USA.

1999 "Oleg Vassiliev: Works 1987-1995." Blomquist, Oslo, Norway.

"Oleg Vassiliev. On Black Paper 1994-1997." Wake Forest University Fine Art Gallery, Winston, Salem, NC, USA. Travel to Denison University Art Gallery, Granville, OH, USA.

"Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde." Art Museum of Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow,

Russia. General Consulate of the Russian Federation, New York, USA. Art Center of College of Design and Art, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Pasadena, CA.

"It's Real Thing...Soviet and Post-Soviet Sots-Art and American Pop Art." Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA.

1998 "The Russian Thaw." Tabakman Gallery, New York, NY, USA.

Selection from Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art of the Soviet Union, Museum of Fine Art, St. Petersburg, Florida, USA.

1997 Fine Art Auction to Benefit of NCLF. Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, New York, NY, USA.

"Oleg Vassiliev." Center of Culture 'PHOENIX.' Moscow, Russia.

1996 "Oleg Vassiliev; Litografier til Tsjekhovs novelle 'Husel med Arken." Oljemalerier Galleri Cassandra, Drobak, Norway.

"Art Russia." Radar, Rome, Italy.

1995-1996 "Flug, Entfernung, Verschwinden." Praha, Berlin, Kiel

"From Gulag to Glasnost: Nonconformist Art From Soviet Union." The Jane Voorheers Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, NJ, USA.

1995 "Oleg Vassiliev: Windows of Memory." Sloane Gallery, Denver, CO, USA

"The Damaged Utopia." Kraftmessen, Munchen, Germany.

International Art Fair, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA.

"Russian Images 1966-1995." Morlan Gallery, Transylvania University, Lexington, KY, USA.

"Conceptual Posters by Oleg Vassiliev." Art Museum of the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA.

"Group Show." Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY, USA

"A Mosca.....A Mosca." Museum Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany

1994 "Works on Paper." Kolodzei Collection of Contemporary Russian Art, Oklahoma City, OK, USA.

"No! and the Conformists. Faces of the Soviet Art 1950-1980." Dunikowski Museum Palac Krolikarni, Poland; Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.

"Zeitgenossen." Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland

"Stalin's Choice: Soviet Socialist Realism 1932-1956." P.S.1 Museum, New York, NY, USA.

1993 "Monuments: Transformation for the Future." Central House of the Artist, Moscow, Russia.

"Temporary Address for Contemporary Russian Art." Post Museum, Paris, France.

"Oleg Vassiliev: Recent Works." Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY, USA.

"Old Symbols, New Icons in Russian Contemporary Art." Stuart Levy Gallery, New York, NY, USA.

"M'AIDEZ/MAYDAY." Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY, USA.

"The Kunstneres syn pa Tsjekhov." Norsk-Russisk Center, Kirkenes, Norway.

"After Perestroika: Kitchenmaids or Stateswomen." Centre International d'Art Contemprain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada and touring.

"Monumental Propaganda." World Financial Center, New York, NY, USA.

FAE Musee d'Art Contemporain, Pully, Lausanne, Switzerland.

1992 "Lianozovo-Moscow. Vsevolod Nekrasov's Russian Art Collection" Bohum Museum, Bohum, Germany.

"Three Points of View." Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.

"A Mosca.....A Mosca." Villa Campolietto, Herculaneum, Italy. Museum of Modern Art, Bologna, Italy.

"Erik Bulatov and Oleg Vassiliev." Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY, USA.

"Exhibition at Sotheby's Auction, Part II." New York, NY, USA.

1991-1992 "Oleg Vassiliev." Galeria Fernando Duran, Madrid, Spain.

1991 "Group Exhibition." Phyllis Kind Gallery/Chicago International Art Exhibition, Chicago, IL, USA.

"Artistos Rusos Contemporaneos." Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

"Eric Bulatov/Oleg Vassiliev." Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY, USA.

"Group Exhibition." The State Literature Museum, Moscow, Russia.

"Back to Square One." Berman-E.N. Gallery, New York, NY, USA.

"The Other Art." The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. The Russian Museum, Leningrad, Russia.

1990 "Soviet Art." Tokyo, Japan.

"Logic of Paradox." Palace of Youth, Moscow, Russia.

"Group Show." Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA.

"Alternative Art of the 60's." Soviet Foundation of Culture, Moscow, Russia.

Foire International d'Art Contemporain (FIAC 90). Paris, France.

"Contemporary Soviet Art: Perestroika." Soviet Art of the Ludwig Collection, Musee d'Art Moderne de Saint Etienne.

1989 "Erik Bulatov/Oleg Vassiliev." Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY, USA.

"Behind the Ironic Curtain." Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY, USA.

"100 artists from Tatiana & Natalia Kolodzei Collection," The State Museum of Fine Arts of Uzbekistan, Tashkent

"Photo in Painting." First Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

"Von der Revolution zur Perestroika." Soviet Art of the Ludwig Collection, Kunstmuseum Luzern und Palau de la Virrelina-Ajuntament de Barcelona.

1988 "Ich Lebe, Ich Sehe." Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland.

"No Problem." Exhibition Hall Begovaya Ulitza, Moscow, Russia.

1987 "Direct from Moscow." Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY, USA.

"Soviet Art." Marconi Galleria, Milan and Rome, Italy.

"The Artist and His Time." Exhibition Space, Kashirskoe Shosse, Moscow, Russia.

1982 "Photography and Painting." Conference and Exhibition at the Center of Aesthetics, Moscow, Russia.

1981 "25 Years of Russian Unofficial Art 1956-1981." Russian Unofficial Art Museum, Jersey City, NJ, USA.

1977 "La nuova arte sovietica: una prospettiva non ufficiale." ("New Soviet Art: a Non-official Prospective") Biennale Venedig, Venice, Italy.

1968 Oleg Vassiliev. Bluebird CafÈ. Exhibition including 25 works. Moscow, Russia.

1956-1968 The School of Young Moscow Artists, Moscow, Russia.

Public collections

The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.

The State Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.

The Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia.

Dresden Staatliche Kunst Gallery, Germany.

Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland.

The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA.

Norsko-Russisk Kunst Center, Norway.

Art Museum in Murmansk, Russia.

Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC, USA.

Art Museum of the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA.

Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO, USA.

Kolodzei Art Foundation

Selected Books and Catalogues

After Perestroika: Kitchenmaids or Stateswomen.Catalogue. Independent Curators, Inc., New York, 1993.

Alderich Museum of Contemporary Art. Adaptation and Negation of Socialist Realism. Ridgefield, CN, 1990.

A Mosca...A Mosca... Catalogue. Olograf Editioni, Bologna, Italy, 1992, Karlsruhe, Germany, 1995.

Baigell, Rene and Baigell, Matthew. Soviet Dissident Artists. Interviews After Perestroika. Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, NJ, 1995, p.405.

Blomqvist. Oleg Vassiliev. Works 1987-1999. Catalogue. Oslo, Norway, 1999.

Bown, Matthew C. Contemporary Russian Art. Allied Books, New York, 1989.

Bown, Matthew C. Socialist Realist Painting. Yale University Press, New Haven, London, 1998, p.506.

Erofeev, Andrei, and Martin, Jean-Hubert. Kunst un Verborgenen. (Nonkonformisten Russland 1957-1995. Prestel, Munchen - New York, 1995.

"Forbidden Art. The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde." Catalogue. DIA, New York, 1998, p.390.

Jolles, Paul R. Memento aus Moskau. Begegnungen mit inoffiziellen Kunstlern, 1978-1997. Wienand, Koln, 1997.

Kabakov, Ilya. 60th-70th...Notes on Unofficial Life in Moscow. Wiener Sloawistischer Almanach, Soncdlerband 47, Wien, 1999, p.267.

Khidekel, Regina. It's Real Thing. Soviet and Postsoviet Sots Art and American Pop Art. Catalogue. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, London, 1998, p.104.

Kulakov,Vladimir.The Poetry as a Fact. Novoye Literaturnoye Obozrenie, Moscow, Russia,1998, p.390.

Kunstmuseum, Bern Ich Lebe, Ich Sehe. Essays and text by Hans Christoph von Tavel, Evgeny Baranov, Karl Eimermacher, Boris Groys, Nikita Alexejew, Gunter Hirt and Sascha Wonders. Benteli AG: Bern, 1988, p.159.

Kupferstich-Kabinett der Staatliche Kunstsammlung. (State-run art exhibition) Eric Bulatov, Vladimir Jankilevski, Ilya Kabakov, Oleg Vassiliev. Catalogue. Dresden, 1989.

The Lamont Art Gallery. Seeing Isn't Believing. Russian Art Since Glasnost. Catalogue.

Exter, NH, 2000.

Lianozowo-Moscow (Sammlung Wsewolod Nekrasow) Catalogue. Bohum Museum, 1992.

The Other Art. 2 Volumes. [Vol 1 Moscow 1956-1976, Materials for Chronique Art Life. Vol 2 Catalogue] Interbook, Moscow, 1991.

Paintings. Works on Paper: Eric Bulatov, Oleg Vassiliev, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Ilya Kabakov, Ivan Chuikov. Catalogue. Moscow, 1989.

Phyllis Kind Gallery. Eric Bulatov/Oleg Vassiliev. New York, 1991.

Sotheby's Contemporary Art. Part II. Catalogue. New York, 1992.

Studio Marconi. Artisti Sovetici Contemporanei. Electa, Milano, 1988, pp.120-131.

Tupitsyn, Margarita. The Critical, The Optical. Ad Marginem, Moscow, 1997, p. 222.

Tupitsyn, Margarita. Margins of Soviet Art. Giancarlo Politi Editore, Milan, 1989.

Tupitsyn, Victor. Communal (Post) Modernism. Ad Marginem, Moscow, 1998, p.206.

Tupitsyn, Victor. The Other of the Art. Ad Marginem, Moscow, 1997, p.348.

Rector, Neil K., ed. Oleg Vassiliev. On Black Paper. 1994-1997. Catalogue. Columbus, OH, 1999, p.59.

Zhuravljeva, Anna, and Nekrassov, Vsevolod. "Chekhov - non-Chekhov" in Packet, Meridian, Moscow, 1996, pp.162-194.

Who is Who in Contemporary Art in Moscow. Album, Moscow, 1993.

 Articles and Reviews

Agatonov, Vassily "To Touch to a Step and Breath" Novoye Ruskoye Slovo. Aug, 2000

Barringer, Felicity. "The Unofficial Artist's Life in Russia." The New York Times, Oct 7, 1986, p.13.

Bass, Ruth. "Oleg Vassiliev. Wake Forest Fine Art Gallery" Art News, Oct 1999, p.197.

Bulatov, Eric. "In Search of Lost Time. Notes on Oleg Vassiliev's Works" Balcon, 1992, No.8-6, pp.18-21.

Chemiakin, Mikhail. "Oleg Vassiliev." Art of Russia and the West, March 1989, No.1, pp.92-101.

Clothier, Peter. "In the Moscow Studios, A Report From the Soviet Union" Artspace, July/Aug, 1989, pp.58-59.

Flor, Harold. "Nostalgi" Dagbladet, Oslo, Norway, Nov 3, 1999.

Heartney, Eleanor. "Oleg Vassiliev and Eric Bulatov at Phyllis Kind." Art in America, March, 1990, p.202.

Ilyina, M. "On the Waves of My Memory." Novoye Russkoye Slovo, Feb 25, 2000.

Kabakov, Ilya. "SHEK No. 8, Bauman-Bezirk, Stadt Moskau." Reklam Verlag, Leipzig, 1994.

Kuspit, Donald. "Eric Bulatov, Oleg Vassiliev." Artforum, May, 1991, p.140.

Minneles, Maria. "Oleg Vassiliev's Black Forest." Pravda 5, Feb 5, 1998, No.16(426)

Puglia, Michael. "Out the Window" Westword, Oct 25-31, 1995, p.52.

Seitz, Hennig. "The Market for Soviet Art." Contemporanea, Dec, 1990, No. 23, pp.108-109.

S.S. "Oleg Vassiliev." A-YA, 1980, No.2, pp. 26-31.

Scobie, Ilka. "Russian Stars." Cover, February, 1990.

Smith, Roberta. "Oleg Vassiliev."(Art in Review) The New York Times, November 26, 1993, Sect C, p.29.

Solomon, Andrew. "Oleg Vassiliev/Eric Bulatov." Artforum, Summer 1994, pp.90-91.

Solomon, Andrew. "Works from Underground, Freed by GLASTNOST." The New York Times, Oct 18, 1995, pp.31-32.

Techniarte. "Oleg Vassiliev." Jan 31, 1992.

Tupitsyn, Margarita. "Back in the USSR." Flash Art, 1988, No.141, pp.121-123.

Tupitsyn, Victor. "Eric Bulatov/Oleg Vassiliev." Flash Art, May/June, 1990, p.148.

Tupitsyn, Victor. "Icons on Iconoclasm." Parachute, July/Aug/Sept, 1998, No.91, pp.14-18.

Tyler, Betty. "Aldrich Exhibit Draws Critics, Collectors." Fairpress, July 12, 1990, Sect D, p.5.

Vassiliev, Oleg. "Home with Attic. An Artist's Story." Balcon, 1991, No.8-9, pp.192-204.

Vassiliev, Oleg. "How I Became an Artist." Pastor, Zond, Koln, 1997, pp.37-44.

Wallach, Amei. "Symbolic Humans: Behind the Ironic Curtain." New York Newsday, March 24, 1989.

Wallach, Amei. "Soviet Expression Born of Crisis." New York Newsday, Nov 12, 1993, pp.78, 83.

Selected Works

Oleg Vassiliev

Oleg Vassiliev "Portrait of Ratgauz, 1964. Oil on canvas.

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