Alexander Kosolapov
Alexander Kosolapov | |
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Born | 1943 Moscow, U.S.S.R. |
Nationality | United States |
Education | Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry, Surikov Moscow Art Institute |
Known for | Mixed Media, Sculpture, Painting |
Notable work | 'Lenin and Coca-Cola' |
Alexander Kosolapov (Russian: Александр Семёнович Косолапов) (born January 1, 1943, in Moscow, Russia) is an American sculptor and painter. He immigrated to the United States in 1975 and has since lived and worked in New York City.
Biography
In the late 1950s Kosolapov attended the Art School of the Surikov Moscow Art Institute. Amongst his classmates were Leonid Sokov, Alexander Yulikov, amidst others.[1]
After his emigration, the artist played a critical role in assisting in the gathering of materials and clandestine distribution of the unofficial Soviet art magazine A-YA, edited by fellow Russian emigre Igor Chelkovski.
Public collections
- The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
- The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
- The New Museum, New York
- The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMoMA), Moscow, Russia
- The New York Public Library, New York
- The National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
- The ART4.RU Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Moscow, Russia
- The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, USA
- The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, USA
- The Mead Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA
References
- ^ ALEXANDER KOSOLAPOV: SOTS ART. Kerber Art. 2010. p. 34. ISBN 3-8667-82276.
External links
Categories:
- 1943 births
- Living people
- 20th-century American painters
- American male painters
- 21st-century American painters
- Modern painters
- Modern sculptors
- People from Moscow
- Russian artists
- Russian sculptors
- Russian male sculptors
- Jewish sculptors
- Russian Jews
- Jewish artists
- 20th-century American sculptors
- 21st-century American sculptors
- American male sculptors
- Russian artist stubs
- American artist stubs