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YURI VASCHENKO | Bio

Background

• 1941 born in Moscow
• 1963 graduated from the Lenin Education College, Graphic Art Dept, Moscow
• 1974 was admitted to the USSR Artists’ Union

Selected Solo Shows

• 1990 "Graphic Seasons" (jointly with N.Popov). Exhibition rooms of the Artists’ Union, 25 Tverskaya St., Moscow
• 1992-93 À 3 Gallery, Moscow
• 1993 "Pauses." Moscow Palette Gallery
  Nuvolanera S.Croce s/Arno, Italy
  Gallery "Il Gabbiano", La Spezia, Italy
• 1994 "Rosso tiziano Arte". Piacenza, Italy
• 1995 "Compositions." Paris-NY-Kent Gallery, Connecticut
• 1995 Bachelier Cardonsky Gallery. Kent, Conncecticut
• 1996 with Joy Brown, Cushla Naegele. Bachelier-Cardonsky Gallery. Kent, Connecticut
• 2003 M’ARS Center of Contemporary Art. “The river Kostroma in the middle of a Current”
• 2003 Tretyakov State Gallery - Moscow’s abstract art of the second half of the twentieth century

Selected Group Shows

• 1968-75 Exhibition of young artists, Artist’s House at Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
  1972-87 XI-XVIII exhibitions of book design
  1977 I.V.Kurchatov Club of the Atomic Energy Research Institute, Moscow
  1984 Triennale Baltica Arts. Vilnius, Lithuania
  1987 1st USSR Exhibition of Graphic Art, Moscow Bratislava International Biennale
  1988 2nd USSR Exhibition of Graphic Art, Moscow
  " Soviet Graphic Artists". Vienna, Austria
  1989 "Soviet Graphic Artists". Bologna, Italy
  International Graphic Exhibition. Berlin, Germany
  1992 Art-Modern Gallery, Moscow
  "Three Points of View" (joint with I.Makarevich and O.Vasiliev). Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow
  1993 Norsk-Russisk Kunstsenter, Kirkenes, Norway
  1993 Art Museum, Murmansk
  1993 Moscow Collection Gallery
  1995 "One World - Many Visions". Silvermine Guild, Connecticut
  1995 "The 46th Artists of the North-East". Venue as above
  1997 "The World of Sensuous Things in Pictures - End of the XX Century". M’ARS Gallery, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (catalogue)
  1997 "The Golden Egg". Exhibition by the artists associated with Khimia i Zhizn journal over 1965-1997. Central House of Artists, Moscow
  1998 ART-MOSCOW International Fair.
  2003 Tremaine Gallery (Hotchkiss School)- “The big sky over a village in Central Russia." Lakeville, Connecticut

In the Collections of

• Tretyakov State Gallery, Moscow
• Surikov State Museum, Krasnoyarsk
• Charlotte Museum, North Carolina, USA.
• Pushkin Museum of Fine Art
• Murmansk Fine Art Museum
• Tyumen’s Fine Art Museum
• Novosibirsk Fine Art Museum
• Yaroslavl Fine Art Museum
• Bratislava Fine Art, Slovenia
• Gallery La Lune, Paris, France
• E. Juhansen Collection, Norway
• Carla Muschio Collection, Italy
• Serena Vitaly Collection, Italy
• Norton Dodge Collection, Washington D.C.
• Diana and Martin Cannon Collection, Washington, D.C.
• Meda Mladek Collection, Washington, D. C.
• Private collections in Russia, France, USA, the Netherlands, and Italy

Awards

• 2004 MacDowell Colony 8 week grant
• 1999 Gold Medal International Biannalle of Graphic Art, Novosibirsk Museum, Novosibirsk
• 1994 Grant from Pollock-Krasner Foundation
• 1989 Medal. International Graphics Exhibition, Berlin
• 1987 Medal Bratislava International Biennale (BIB)
• 1984 Triennale Baltic Arts