Oleg Vassiliev (Russian, –2013)

Timeline

1931
Born in Moscow, Russia.
1958
Graduated from the V.I. Surikov State Art Institute, Moscow
1990
Emigrated to the USA.

Exhibitions

2007
New York, Forum Gallery, Oleg Vassiliev: Drawings (cat.) (solo)
2005
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Russia! (cat.)
2005
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Collage in Russia XX Century (cat.)
2004
Moscow, The State Tretyakov Gallery and Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin-Moscow/Moscow-Berlin, Kunst 1950-2000, (cat.)
2004
Yeshiva University Museum, New York, REMEMBRANCE: Russian Post-Modern Nostalgia (cat.)
2004
Canada, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Global Village: The 1960s (cat.
2004
Moscow, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Memory Speaks (Themes and Variations), retrospective, traveled to The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg (cat.) (solo)
2003
Paramus, New Jersey, The Bergen Museum of Art and Science, Finding Freedom: 40 Years of Soviet and Russian Art, Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art
2002
Zurich, Andy Jllien Gallery, Moskauer Avantgarde: Grisha Bruskin, Erik Bulatov, Ilya Kabakov, Dmitri Prigov, Oleg Vassiliev,
2002
Lisbon, Centro Cultural de Belem, Malevich, Cinema and Beyond (cat.)
2002
Moscow, National Center for Contemporary Art
2001
New Brunswick, New Jersey, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Realities and Utopias (cat.)
2001
Nevada, University of Las Vegas, Barrick Museum, Cold War/Hot Culture; American and Russian Nonconformist Art,
2000
New Hampshire, Exeter, Phillips Exeter Academy, The Lamont Gallery, Seeing Isn’t Believing: Russian Art Since Glasnost, (cat.)
2000
Zurich, Galerie Andy Jllien, Recent Works (solo)
2000
Dartmouth, University of Massachusetts, University Art Gallery, The Past Isn’t Dead, It Isn’t Even Past, (cat.) (solo)
1999
Oslo, Blomquist Works 1987-1995 (cat.) (solo)
1999
North Carolina, Wake Forest University Fine Arts Gallery, Winston-Salem, On Black Paper, traveled to Denison University Art Gallery, Granville, Ohio (cat.) (solo)
1999
Washington, DC, organized by International Art and Artists, Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde, traveled to: Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio; The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California; McMullen Museum, Boston College, Massachusetts; Bruce Museum of Art and Science, Greenwich, Connecticut (cat.)
1999
Minneapolis, University of Minnesota, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, It’s the Real Thing…Soviet and Post-Soviet Sots Art and American Pop Art (cat.)
1998
New York, Tabakman Gallery, The Russian Thaw
1998
Florida, Museum of Fine Art, St. Petersburg, Selections from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art of the Soviet Union
1997
Moscow, Phoenix Gallery, Oleg Vassiliev (solo)
1996
Drobak (Norway), Oljemalerier Galleri Cassandra (solo)
1996
Litografier til Tsjekhovs novelle ‘Husel med Arken’, (cat.) (solo)
1996
Rome. Radar, Art Russia (cat.)
1995
Berlin, Kiel Haus am Waldesee, Sadgalerie im Sophenhot, Flug, Entfernung, Verschwinden, Konzeptuelle Kunst aus Moskau, (cat.)
1995
New Jersey, New Brunswick, Rutgers University, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, From Gulag to Glasnost: Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union (cat.)
1995
Munich, Kraftmessen, The Damaged Utopia (cat.)
1995
Kentucky, Lexington, Transylvania University, Morlan Gallery, Russian Images 1966-1995
1995
New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Group Show
1995
Germany, Karlsruhe, Museum Kunstverein, A Mosca…A Mosca (cat.)
1995
Denver, Sloane Gallery, Windows of Memory (solo)
1995
Lexington, Art Museum of the University of Kentucky, Conceptual Posters by Oleg Vassiliev (solo)
1994
Oklahoma, Kolodzei Collection of Contemporary Russian Art, Works on Paper
1994
Poland, Dunikowski Museum Palac, Krolikarni, and The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, No! and the Conformists. Faces of Soviet Art 1950-1980 (cat.)
1994
Bern, Kunstmuseum, Zeitgenossen
1994
New York, P.S.1, Stalin’s Choice: Soviet Socialist Realism 1932-1956,
1993
Moscow, Central House of Artists, Monuments: Transformation for the Future
1993
Paris, Post Museum, Temporary Address for Contemporary Russian Art
1993
New York, Stuart Levy Gallery, Old Symbols, New Icons in Russian Contemporary Art
1993
New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, M’AIDEZ/MAYDAY
1993
Norway, Kirkenes, Norsk-Russick Center, Tre Kunstneres syn pa Tjekov
1993
Canada, Centre International d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, After Perestroika: Kitchenmaids or Stateswomen (cat.)
1993
New York, Monumental Propaganda, exhibition organized by Komar & Melamid and Independent Curators Incorporated, traveled to: Courtyard Gallery, World Financial Center, New York; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow; AI Gallery, Institute of History, Talinn, Estonia; Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia; Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan; The Muckenthaler Art Center, Fullerton, California; The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri; Helsinki City Art Museum, Finland; Uppsala Konstmuseum; Helsinki; Kennisaw State University, Georgia (cat.)
1993
New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Recent Works (solo)
1992
Germany, Bohum, Bohum Museum, Lianozovo-Moscow: Vsevelod Nekrasov’s Russian Art Collection
1992
Moscow, Center of Contemporary Art, Three Points of View (cat.)
1992
Italy, Herculaneaum, Villa Campolieto, and Bologna, Museum of Modern Art, A Mosca…A Mosca, (cat.)
1992
New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Erik Bulatov and Oleg Vassiliev (cat.)
1991
Spain, Santiago de Compostela, Auditorio de Galicia, Artistos Rusos Contemporaneos,
1991
New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Erik Bulatov/Oleg Vassiliev
1991
Madrid, Galeria Fernando Duran, Oleg Vassiliev, (cat.) (solo)
1991
Moscow, The State Literature Museum, Group Exhibition
1991
New York, Berman-E.N. Gallery, Back to Square One (cat.)
1991
Leningrad, Moscow and The Russian Museum, The Tretyakov Gallery, The Other Art: Moscow 1956-1976 (cat.)
1991
Tokyo, Setagaya Museum, Soviet Contemporary Art: From Thaw to Perestroika
1990
Moscow, Palace of Youth, Logic of Paradox
1990
Moscow, Soviet Foundation of Culture, Alternative Art of the 60s
1990
Connecticut,Ridgefield, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Soviet Art: Adaptation and Negation of Socialist Realism (cat.)
1990
Paris, Foire International d’Art Contemporain (FIAC 90)
1989
New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Erik Bulatov/Oleg Vassiliev
1989
Switzerland, Kunstmuseum Luzern, From the Revolution to Perestroika, Soviet Art of the Ludwig Collection, traveled to Palau de la Virreina-Ajuntment de Barcelona, Spain, and Musee d’Art Moderne de St. Etienne, France (cat.)
1989
Moscow, First Gallery, Photo in Painting
1989
New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Behind the Ironic Curtain
1989
USSR, Uzbekistan, Tashkent, The State Museum of Fine Arts, 100 Artists from the Kolodzei Collection,
1988
Bern, Kunstmuseum, Ich Lebe, Ich Sene (cat.)
1988
Moscow, Exhibition Hall Begovaya Ulitza, No Problem
1987
New York, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Direct from Moscow
1987
Milan/Rome, Marconi Galleria, Soviet Art
1987
Moscow, Kashirskoye Shosse Exhibition Space, The Artist and His Time
1982
Moscow, Conference and Exhibition at the Center of Aesthetics, Photography and Painting
1982
France, Elancourt, Villedien Culture Center, New Tendencies of Soviet Unofficial Art 1956-1981
1981
Jersey City, The C.A.S.E. Museum of Unofficial Soviet Art, 25 Years of Soviet Unofficial Art 1956-1981,
1977
Venice Biennale, La Nuova arte sovietica: una prospettiva non ufficiale (New Soviet Art: a Non-official Prospective)
1968
Moscow, Bluebird Café, Oleg Vassiliev (solo)

Literature

2003
Berlin Moscow / Moscow Berlin Kunst 1950-2000. Moscow: State Tretyakov Gallery, Berlin: Martin-Gropius-Bau
2002
Nekrasov, Vsevolod. Zhivu Vizhu (Live and See). Moscow
1999
Blomqvist. Oleg Vassiliev: Works 1987-1999 Catalogue. Oslo, Norway
1998
Forbidden Art: The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde Catalogue. New York: DIA
1998
Khidekel, Regina. It's the Real Thing: Soviet and Post-Soviet Sots Art and American Pop Art Catalogue. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press
1995
A Mosca...A Mosca... Catalogue. Olograf Editioni, Bologna, Italy, 1992, Karlsruhe, Germany
1995
Baigell, Renee and Matthew Baigell. Soviet Dissident Artists: Interviews After Perestroika. New Brunswick: Rutgers UP
1991
Phyllis Kind Gallery. Eric Bulatov/Oleg Vassiliev. New York
1989
Bown, Matthew Cullerne. Contemporary Russian Art. New York: Allied Books
1989
Tupitsyn, Margarita. Margins of Soviet Art. Milan: Giancarlo Politi Editore
English (US)

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