1941 Born in the village of Mikjaliovo, Kalinin region. Lives and works in New York

Selected Solo Exhibitions

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-, Pavilion of Russia, Venice

2004
The Albright College Cultural Center, Reading, PA

2005
Leonid Sokov - Sculptures, Paintings, installations, Galleria Mazzoli, Modena


Selected Group Exhibitions


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, 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. 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
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