Leonid Sokov
Biography
1941 born in the village of Mikjaliovo, Kalinin region
1951-1961 studied in the Moscow Art School
1961; 1964-I969 studied in the Moscow High Institute of Art and Design (former Stroganovsky), department of sculpture
1972 member of the Moscow Union of Artists
1979 emigrated to Austria
Since 1980 lives and works in New York
Selected one-man shows
1976 One-day exhibition. Exhibition Hall of the Moscow Union of Artists on Begovaja str. 7, Moscow
1983 Question and Exclamation. Storefront Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Sculpted Soviets. Storefront Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY
A&P Gallery, New York, NY
Zeus-Trabia Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Glasnost. Zeus-Trabia Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Trabia-MacAfee Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Eduard Nakhamkin Fine Arts, New York, NY
1991 Galeria Carini, Florence
1992 Berman Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Berman Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Farsettiarte, Prato
1997 Galeria Severiarte, Bologna
1999 Palais des Nations, Geneva
2001 The Shadows of 20th Century Sculpture. 49-я Венецианская биеннале, Pavilion of Russia, Venice
2004 The Albright College Cultural Center, Reading, PA
Selected group shows
1976 Group show in the L.Sokov's srudio, Moscow
1977 La nuova arte sovietica. Una prospettiva non ufficiale. Palazzetto dello sport all'Arsenale, Venice
1978 Rassegna sul dissenso culturale nell' Est europeo. Scuola cantonale di commercio, Bellinzona
La nuova arte sovietica. Una prospettiva non ufficiale. Palazzo Madama, Turin
1979 20 Jahre unabhangige Kunst aus der Sowietunion. Museum Bochum, Bochum
1981 Nouvelles Tendances de l'Art Russe non official. 1970-1980. Les Centre culturel de la Villedieu, Villedieu
25 Years of Soviet Unofficial Art. 1956-1981. C.A.S.E. Museum of Soviet Unofficial Art, Cremona
Foundation, Jersey City, NJ
1981-1982 Russian New Wave. Contemporary Russian Art Center of America, New York, NY
1982-1984 Russian Samizdat Art. Franklin Furnace Gallery, New York, NY - Visual Studies Workshop,
Рочестер, New York, NY - Chappaqua Gallery, Westchester, NY - Washington Project for the Arts,
Washington DC - Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY - Anderson Gallery, Commonwelth
University, Richmond, VA. Exhibition was also shown in the Hewlett Gallery, Carnegy-Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, PA; the LACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983 Come Yesturday and You`ll be First! City without Walls: an Urban Artists Collective Inc., Newark, NJ -
Contemporary Russian Art Center of America, New York, NY
1984 Russian Mock-Heroic Style. Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY
New Portrait. P.S.1 Museum, Long Island, NY
East-Europian Show. No Se No Gallery, New York, NY - Nico Smith Gallery, New York, NY
Micro Show. NOW gallery, New York, NY
Les Russes au present. Le centre culturel de la Villedieu, Villedieu
1985 Surrealist Brunch. No Se No Gallery, New York, NY - Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY
Monsters Show. Nico Smith Gallery, New York, NY
New Sculpture. NOW Gallery, New York, NY
Eastern Europeans in New York. La Galeria en Behio, New York, NY - St. Mark's Gallery, New York, NY
Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY
Microwave. NOW Gallery, New York, NY - A&P Gallery, New York, NY
Sculpture. No Se No Gallery, New York, NY - A&P Gallery, New York, NY
1986 The Rivingston School. 1st Street Gallery, New York, NY
Dolls' Show. Art Gallery of Long Island University, New York, NY
Russia: Dreams and Realities. Zeus-Trabia Gallery, New York, NY
Sculpture Garden. Zeus-Trabia Gallery, New York, NY
Church and State. Zeus-Trabia Gallery, New York, NY
Transculture, Transmedia. Exit Art, New York, NY
Sots Art. New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1987 New Voices. Pondo del Sol, Washington DC
Art on the Beach. Hunter's Point, New York, NY
Retrospection, 1957-1987. Painting. The "Hermitage" Association, Exhibition Hall on Profsoiuznaja
Street, 100, Moscow
1988 Birds and Beasts? Home Box Office, New York, NY
Vital Signs. Main Street Windows, New York, NY
1990 Transit: Russian Artists Between the East and West. Eduard Nakhamkin Fine Arts, New York, NY - Pine
Arts Museum of Long Island, NY - State Russian Museum, Leningrad - State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Logic of Paradox. Moscow Palace of Youth
Towards the Object. «Sadovniki» Gallery (exhibition hall of Krasnogvardeiskij district), Moscow
1990-1991 The Other Art. Moscow 1956-1976. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow - State Russian Museum,
Leningrad
1991 Back to Square One. Berman - E.N. Gallery, New York, NY
Soviet Contemporary Art - From Thaw to Perestroika. Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
1992 Sots-Art. Lenin's Museum, Moscow
1993 Coca-Cola. Galeria Bianca Pilat, Rome
1993-1994 After Perestroika: Kitchenmaids or Stateswomen. Le Centre international d'art de Montreal,
Montreal - Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY - DePree Art Center and Gallery,
Hope College, Holland, MI - Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA - Iris
and B.Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
1994 Cetinjski Bienale II. Vladin Dom, Cetinje
1994-1998 Elvis + Marilyn: 2 x Immortal. Institute of Contemporary Art, Bosron - Pennsylvania Academy of
Art, Philadelphia, PA - Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC - Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus,
OH - Baltimore Museum of Arts, Baltimore, MD - Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI -
Hokkaido-Obihiro Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan - Daimaru Museum, Umeda, Osaka. Exhibition
was also shown in other museums in USA and Japan
1995 Kunst im verborgenen. Nonkonformisten Russland 1957-1995. Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Luswigshaven -
Documenta-Halle, Kassel - Staatliches Lindenau Museum, Altenburg
Kraeftmesse. Eine Ausstellung ost-oestlicher Positionen innerhalb der westlichen Welt. Kunstlerwerkstatt,
Munich
1999 It's the Real Thing. Soviet and Post-Soviet Sots-Art and American Pop-Art. The Frederick R. Weisman Art
Museum, Minneapolis, MN
2000 Contemporary Russian Masters. Part 2. Sloane Gallery of Art, Denver, CO
Cold War - Hot Culture. The International Festival of Russian Arts and Culture. University of Nevada, Las
Vegas, NV
Exposition of the permanent collection of 20th century art. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2003 M_ARS - Art and War. Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Ortstermin Moskau - 1970 und die Zeit danach. Sandmann, Berlin
Remembrance: Russian Post-Modern Nostalgia. Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY
2003-2004 Moscow - Берлин. Berlin - Moskau. Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin - State Historica Museum, Moscow
2004 A Grain of Dust. A Drop of Water. 5th Gwangju Biennal. Gwangju
2004-2005 The Seven Sins. Moderna Galerija Liubliana, Liubliana
2005 Schatten und Licht in der zeitgenössischen kunst. Kunsthalle zu Kiel der Christian-Albrechts-Universität,
Kiel
Moscow Grafika: Artists' Prints 1961 - 2005. Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and
Eastern European Art. International Print Center New York, NY
Remembrance: Russian Post-Modern Nostalgia. Grossman Gallery, Williams Visual Arts Building, Easton,
PA
Russian Pop Art. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2005-2006 Essence of Life - Essence of Art. Ludwig Museum (Museum of Contemporary Art), Budapest - State
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow - State Russian Museum, Petersburg
Russia! Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY - Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y
Contemporaneo, Bilbao
Schattenspiel - Eine Hommage an Hans Christian Andersen. Landesgalerie am
Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz
2006 Masters of Humor & Satire. Sloane Gallery of Art, Denver, CO
Artists Against the State: Perestroika Revisited. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
2006-2007 Territories of Terror: Mythologies and Memories of the Gulag in Contemporary Russian-American
Art. Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2007 Bare Life. Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
Соц-арт. Политическое искусство в России. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow - La maison rouge, Paris
Attitude 2007. Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto
2008 Moscow - New York = Parallel Play. Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
Die totale Aufklärung. Moskauer Konzeptkunst. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
1941 born in the village of Mikjaliovo, Kalinin region
1951-1961 studied in the Moscow Art School
1961; 1964-I969 studied in the Moscow High Institute of Art and Design (former Stroganovsky), department of sculpture
1972 member of the Moscow Union of Artists
1979 emigrated to Austria
Since 1980 lives and works in New York
Selected one-man shows
1976 One-day exhibition. Exhibition Hall of the Moscow Union of Artists on Begovaja str. 7, Moscow
1983 Question and Exclamation. Storefront Gallery, New York, NY
1985 Sculpted Soviets. Storefront Gallery, New York, NY
1986 Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY
A&P Gallery, New York, NY
Zeus-Trabia Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Glasnost. Zeus-Trabia Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Trabia-MacAfee Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Eduard Nakhamkin Fine Arts, New York, NY
1991 Galeria Carini, Florence
1992 Berman Gallery, New York, NY
1994 Berman Gallery, New York, NY
1995 Farsettiarte, Prato
1997 Galeria Severiarte, Bologna
1999 Palais des Nations, Geneva
2001 The Shadows of 20th Century Sculpture. 49-я Венецианская биеннале, Pavilion of Russia, Venice
2004 The Albright College Cultural Center, Reading, PA
Selected group shows
1976 Group show in the L.Sokov's srudio, Moscow
1977 La nuova arte sovietica. Una prospettiva non ufficiale. Palazzetto dello sport all'Arsenale, Venice
1978 Rassegna sul dissenso culturale nell' Est europeo. Scuola cantonale di commercio, Bellinzona
La nuova arte sovietica. Una prospettiva non ufficiale. Palazzo Madama, Turin
1979 20 Jahre unabhangige Kunst aus der Sowietunion. Museum Bochum, Bochum
1981 Nouvelles Tendances de l'Art Russe non official. 1970-1980. Les Centre culturel de la Villedieu, Villedieu
25 Years of Soviet Unofficial Art. 1956-1981. C.A.S.E. Museum of Soviet Unofficial Art, Cremona
Foundation, Jersey City, NJ
1981-1982 Russian New Wave. Contemporary Russian Art Center of America, New York, NY
1982-1984 Russian Samizdat Art. Franklin Furnace Gallery, New York, NY - Visual Studies Workshop,
Рочестер, New York, NY - Chappaqua Gallery, Westchester, NY - Washington Project for the Arts,
Washington DC - Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY - Anderson Gallery, Commonwelth
University, Richmond, VA. Exhibition was also shown in the Hewlett Gallery, Carnegy-Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, PA; the LACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1983 Come Yesturday and You`ll be First! City without Walls: an Urban Artists Collective Inc., Newark, NJ -
Contemporary Russian Art Center of America, New York, NY
1984 Russian Mock-Heroic Style. Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY
New Portrait. P.S.1 Museum, Long Island, NY
East-Europian Show. No Se No Gallery, New York, NY - Nico Smith Gallery, New York, NY
Micro Show. NOW gallery, New York, NY
Les Russes au present. Le centre culturel de la Villedieu, Villedieu
1985 Surrealist Brunch. No Se No Gallery, New York, NY - Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY
Monsters Show. Nico Smith Gallery, New York, NY
New Sculpture. NOW Gallery, New York, NY
Eastern Europeans in New York. La Galeria en Behio, New York, NY - St. Mark's Gallery, New York, NY
Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY
Microwave. NOW Gallery, New York, NY - A&P Gallery, New York, NY
Sculpture. No Se No Gallery, New York, NY - A&P Gallery, New York, NY
1986 The Rivingston School. 1st Street Gallery, New York, NY
Dolls' Show. Art Gallery of Long Island University, New York, NY
Russia: Dreams and Realities. Zeus-Trabia Gallery, New York, NY
Sculpture Garden. Zeus-Trabia Gallery, New York, NY
Church and State. Zeus-Trabia Gallery, New York, NY
Transculture, Transmedia. Exit Art, New York, NY
Sots Art. New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1987 New Voices. Pondo del Sol, Washington DC
Art on the Beach. Hunter's Point, New York, NY
Retrospection, 1957-1987. Painting. The "Hermitage" Association, Exhibition Hall on Profsoiuznaja
Street, 100, Moscow
1988 Birds and Beasts? Home Box Office, New York, NY
Vital Signs. Main Street Windows, New York, NY
1990 Transit: Russian Artists Between the East and West. Eduard Nakhamkin Fine Arts, New York, NY - Pine
Arts Museum of Long Island, NY - State Russian Museum, Leningrad - State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Logic of Paradox. Moscow Palace of Youth
Towards the Object. «Sadovniki» Gallery (exhibition hall of Krasnogvardeiskij district), Moscow
1990-1991 The Other Art. Moscow 1956-1976. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow - State Russian Museum,
Leningrad
1991 Back to Square One. Berman - E.N. Gallery, New York, NY
Soviet Contemporary Art - From Thaw to Perestroika. Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
1992 Sots-Art. Lenin's Museum, Moscow
1993 Coca-Cola. Galeria Bianca Pilat, Rome
1993-1994 After Perestroika: Kitchenmaids or Stateswomen. Le Centre international d'art de Montreal,
Montreal - Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY - DePree Art Center and Gallery,
Hope College, Holland, MI - Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA - Iris
and B.Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA
1994 Cetinjski Bienale II. Vladin Dom, Cetinje
1994-1998 Elvis + Marilyn: 2 x Immortal. Institute of Contemporary Art, Bosron - Pennsylvania Academy of
Art, Philadelphia, PA - Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC - Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus,
OH - Baltimore Museum of Arts, Baltimore, MD - Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI -
Hokkaido-Obihiro Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan - Daimaru Museum, Umeda, Osaka. Exhibition
was also shown in other museums in USA and Japan
1995 Kunst im verborgenen. Nonkonformisten Russland 1957-1995. Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Luswigshaven -
Documenta-Halle, Kassel - Staatliches Lindenau Museum, Altenburg
Kraeftmesse. Eine Ausstellung ost-oestlicher Positionen innerhalb der westlichen Welt. Kunstlerwerkstatt,
Munich
1999 It's the Real Thing. Soviet and Post-Soviet Sots-Art and American Pop-Art. The Frederick R. Weisman Art
Museum, Minneapolis, MN
2000 Contemporary Russian Masters. Part 2. Sloane Gallery of Art, Denver, CO
Cold War - Hot Culture. The International Festival of Russian Arts and Culture. University of Nevada, Las
Vegas, NV
Exposition of the permanent collection of 20th century art. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2003 M_ARS - Art and War. Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Ortstermin Moskau - 1970 und die Zeit danach. Sandmann, Berlin
Remembrance: Russian Post-Modern Nostalgia. Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY
2003-2004 Moscow - Берлин. Berlin - Moskau. Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin - State Historica Museum, Moscow
2004 A Grain of Dust. A Drop of Water. 5th Gwangju Biennal. Gwangju
2004-2005 The Seven Sins. Moderna Galerija Liubliana, Liubliana
2005 Schatten und Licht in der zeitgenössischen kunst. Kunsthalle zu Kiel der Christian-Albrechts-Universität,
Kiel
Moscow Grafika: Artists' Prints 1961 - 2005. Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and
Eastern European Art. International Print Center New York, NY
Remembrance: Russian Post-Modern Nostalgia. Grossman Gallery, Williams Visual Arts Building, Easton,
PA
Russian Pop Art. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2005-2006 Essence of Life - Essence of Art. Ludwig Museum (Museum of Contemporary Art), Budapest - State
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow - State Russian Museum, Petersburg
Russia! Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY - Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y
Contemporaneo, Bilbao
Schattenspiel - Eine Hommage an Hans Christian Andersen. Landesgalerie am
Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz
2006 Masters of Humor & Satire. Sloane Gallery of Art, Denver, CO
Artists Against the State: Perestroika Revisited. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
2006-2007 Territories of Terror: Mythologies and Memories of the Gulag in Contemporary Russian-American
Art. Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA
2007 Bare Life. Museum on the Seam, Jerusalem
Соц-арт. Политическое искусство в России. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow - La maison rouge, Paris
Attitude 2007. Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto
2008 Moscow - New York = Parallel Play. Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
Die totale Aufklärung. Moskauer Konzeptkunst. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
