VAGRICH BAKHCHANYAN
1938 - was born in Kharkov, Ukraine, USSR
1967-1974 - lived in Moscow
Since 1974 - lives in New York, USA
Selected personal exhibitions:
2007 - «Works and days», The Elena Berezkina Foundation for Visual Art Support «Era»
2003 - National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
1982 - Micro Hall Center, Edeveht, Germany
1978 - «First Russian Propaganda Art Performance», Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1977 - Gras Gallery, Vienna, Austria
1977 - «Save Time» - 30 exhibitions in the same day in 30 galleries of New York
1977 - «ART-77», Basel, Switzerland
1974 - Sazenhofen Gallery, Salzburg, Austria
1974 - Gras Gallery, Vienna, Austria
1973 - Charley Chevalier Gallery, Paris, France
1968 - Cafe «Blue bird», Moscow, Russia
Selected group exhibitions:
2007 - «Adventure of the Black Square», State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2008 - «+ 7 ( 495 )...», National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
2006 - Museum of National Arts of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
2006 - «Artists Against the State: Perestroika Revisited», Feldman Gallery, New York, USA
2006 - «Russian Art of XX Century: Then and Now», Ober Gallery, Kent, Connecticut, USA
2005 - «New purchases», National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
2005 - «Moscow Graphic: Works of artists 1961-2005», International Print Center New York
and the Kolodzei Art Foundation. Inc., New York, USA
2005 - «Avantgarde im Untergrund Russische Nonkonformisten aus der Sammlung Bar-Gera Kunstmuseum»,
Bern, Switzerland
2005 - «Author's books-2», National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
2003 - «Multiples», Kingsborough College of CUNY, New York, USA
2001 - «Präprintium. Moskauer Bücher aus dem Samizdat», Museum für Literatur am Oberrhein,
Karlsruhe, Germany
2000 - «Cold War/Hot Culture», ?. Barrick Museum, Las Vegas, USA
2000 - «Art of Nonconformism from Bar-Ger? Collection», Verona, Italy
1998 - Staatsbibliotek-Preußicher Kulturbesitz «Präprintium, Moskauer Bücher aus dem Samizdat»,
Berlin, Germany, Bremen Neues Museum Wesserburg, Bremen, Germany
1997 - Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany
1997 - Galleries of the Bayer Culture Department, Leverkusen, Germany
1995 - «The Nonconformism, the Second Russian Avantguarde. 1955-1988» (Bar-Ger’s Collection),
State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia; State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia;
Stedel Institute of Art, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1995 - «Kunst im Verborgenen—Nonkonformisten Rußland 1957-1995» Wilhelm-Hack museum,
Ludwigshafen am Rhein; Documenta-Halle, Kassel; Lindenau museum, Altenburg, Germany;
Central Exhibition Hall «Manezh», Moscow, Russia
1991 - «The Other Art», State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1982 - «Art of Samizdat», Franklin Furnace Gallery, New York, USA
1979 - XVI Biennale of Contemporary Art, Sao-Paulo, Brazil
1979 - Artists Books, Modern Museum of Art, New York, USA; Georges Pompidou Centre, Paris, France
1979 - «New Russian Wave», National Centre of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
1978 - Pratt Manhattan Center, New York, USA
1978 - «Art of Nonconformism from Soviet Union», Lodi, Italy
1978 - «New Unofficial Art from USSR», Bellinzona, Switzerland
1978 - «New Soviet Art», Turin, Italy
1977 - «New Art from Soviet Union», Arts Club, Washington, USA
1977 - «New Soviet Art», Venezian Biennale, Venezia, Italy
1977 - Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, Itaka, USA
1976 - International Artmarket, Düsseldorf, Germany
1976 - International Art Fair, Vienna, Austria
1976 - «New art from Soviet Union», Palais des Congrais, Paris, France
1974 - «Progressive directions, Moscow 1957-1960», Museum of Bochum, Germany
1965 - «Unofficial Artists and Poets», Kharkov, Ukraine, USSR
Museum collections:
National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
Museum of National Arts of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine
J. Paul Getty Research Center and Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Norton and Nancy Dodge collection, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Private collections:
Bar-Gera Collection, Cologne, Germany
Paul and Berty Quaedvlieg Collection, Netherlands