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Komar and Melamid
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Komar and Melamid
Antichrist (Glory ot God),
1990–1991
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Biography
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Timeline
1943
Vitaly Komar, Born in Moscow
1945
Alexander Melamid, Born in Moscow
1958 - 1960
Moscow Art School
1962 - 1967
Stroganov Institute of Art & Design, Moscow
Exhibitions
2010
Glasnost, Soviet Non-Conformist Art from the 1980s Haunch of Venison London, UK
2009
The Thaw and the Time After – Moscow Artists 1958-2008: Part II Komar & Melamid and Sergej Volokhov. Galerie Sandmann. Berlin, Germany
Shadows. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Fundacion Caja Madrid. Madrid, Spain
2008
Moscow – New York = Parallel Play Chelsea Art Museum New York, NY
Komar and Melamid: Super Objects-Super Comfort for Super People Neuberger Museum or Art Purchase, NY
2005
Russia! Guggenheim Museum New York, NY
2003
Somewhere Better Than This Place, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba, Japan, Komar & Melamid: Desperately Seeking a Masterpiece
2002 - 2003
Symbols of the Big Bang, Yeshiva University Museum, Center for Jewish History, New York, NY
2002
Komar and Melamid’s Asian Elephant Art and Conservation Project Berkeley Art Museum Berkeley, CA
Modernism and Post-Modernism: Russian Art of the Ending Millennium, Wellington B. Gray Gallery, East Carolina University, Greeneville, NC
2001
Komar & Melamid's American Dreams, Philadelphia Art Alliance Philadelphia, PA
1999
The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect, The Museum of Modern Art New York
1998
Heroic Painting, Chicago Cultural Center Chicago, IL
Heroic Painting, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art Winston-Salem, NC and tour
The Most Wanted-The Most Unwanted Painting, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
The People's Choice, The Akron Art Museum Akron, OH and tour
1997
Zeitgenossische Kunst im Museum Ludwig, Kunst Museum Ludwig Cologne, Germany
The Most Wanted-The Most Unwanted Painting, Kunst Museum Ludwig Koln, Germany
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
1996
Made to Order: America's Most Wanted Paintings, The Alternative Museum New York, NY
1995
No Man's Land, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center Copenhagen, Denmark
Altered Egos, Santa Monica Museum of Art Sata Monica, CA
1994
Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties, ICA Philadelphia, PA
1993
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
25 Years A Retrospective, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH
1992
Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art Los Angeles, CA
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
1991
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
1990
Grand Lobby Installation, Brooklyn Museum Brooklyn, NY
Painting: 1980 to 1986, Gallery 210, University of Missouri St. Louis, MO
1989
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
1988
Death Poems, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst West Berlin, Germany
1987
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford Oxford, The United Kingdom
1986
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
Komar & Melamid, Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh, Scotland
1985
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
1984
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
1983
Portland Center for Visual Arts Portland, OR
1982
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
1980
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
1978
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
1977
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
1976
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts New York
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Literature
2010
The St. Petersburg Times “A new platform for modern art” Katharine Helmore
2009
The New York Times “Long Afterlife for a Short-Lived Jewish Monthly” Samuel G. Freedman
Crossing Cultures: Conflict Migration and Convergence “Komar and Melamid: The Future Memory of International Modernism” Joe A. Thomas
2008
The New York Times “Skewering Soviet Dogma and Consumerism, Too Benjamin Genocchio
2007
Art Forum “Eastern Prophecies” Boris Groys
2006
The New York Times “Artists Against the State.” Ken Johnson
2004
NY Arts “The Art Couple” John Perreault
2003
Fulcrum “Symbol and Origin” Mikhail Iampolski
The Jewish Week “Star Gazers” Daniel Belasco
2002
Komar & Melamid: Symbols of the Big Bang. New York, NY: Yeshiva University Museum
2000
Boston Sunday Globe “Art From the Massives” Fred Kaplan
1997
Painting by Numbers: Komar and Melamid's Scientific Guide to Art. Edited by JoAnn
1992
The New York Times "Sears: the real America (according to these Russians)” Patricia Leigh Brown
1988
Ratcliff, Carter. Komar & Melamid. New York, NY: Abbeville Press, 1988
1986
New Yorker "Profiles: Partners” Ian Frazier
1977
New York Times Magazine "Dissidence as a Way of Art” Grace Glueck
1976
New York "A Russian Life: Tiny Pictures at an Exhibition” Dorothy Seiberling
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