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                                         Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin

 

Valeriy Gerlovin (American, b. Russia 1945) graduated as a stage designer from the School-Studio of the Moscow Art Theater of Stanislavsky (MKhAT) in 1967. Rimma Gerlovina (American, b. Russia 1951) majored in philology at the Moscow State University in 1973. Married in 1970, live in the United States since 1980.

 

2024

Etre(s) Vivant(s), Living Beings, Mobil Museum, MuMO, Centre PompidouFeb. 5 - May 18, 2024 ("Grande Ourse")

Suppose You Are Not, the mer Ko Collection, Arter Gallery, Stambul, Turkey, Jan. 19 – Dec. 29, 2024.

Franz Kafka and art of XX century, Jewish Museum, Moscow, Oct. 10 2023 - Jan. 13, 2024, (link)

A Network: Postal Art 1970-1980, Biennal de Arte Contemporaneous, The City Art Collection, Saco, Site of Memory, San Paulo, Brazil, link

 

2023

N. and J. Thompson Gallery, San Jos State University, San Jose, CA, Aug. 29 – Oct. 6, 2023, (link) 

The Animal Within – Cteatures in (and outside), Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Sept. 22, 2022 – Feb. 26, 2023

Weiner Zeitung, Ein Zoo der etwas anderen Art (A different kind of Zoo / Другой вид зоопарka

Austria Times, Ausstellung – Ein Zoo der etwas anderen Art

Vienna Art Week

Re-Materialization of Language. Reconstruction of the exhibition of the XXXIX Venice Biennale in 1978, Fondazioni Antonio Dalle Nogare, Bolzano, Italy, 2 Oct. 2022 3 June 2023

 

2022

Collaborations, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Wien, Austria, Jul. 1 – Nov.6, 2022 (link)

Thing, Space, Man, Art, XX- XXI cen., The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, June 11– Sept. 11

Face, Lisa Sette Gallery, Phoenix, AZ, June 4 – sept. 24

Fantastic Vision, Amarillo Museum of Art, Texas, USA, May 28 – Sept. 4

Thinking Pictures, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia, March 13 – Aug.14

Artists Books from Franklin Furnace Archive, 1976-2022, Pratt Institute, New York, USA, May 31 – June 21

Visage – Face with a View, Cassilhous, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, Feb.13 – May 8

Poetry and Performance, Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture, Dnipro, Ukraine, Nov. 25, 2021 – Feb. 12, 2022

 

2021

Poetry and Performance, The Kassak Museum, Budapest, Hungary

Fluxus Means Change, Jean Browns Avant-Garde Archive, The Getty Research Institute, California, USA, Sept. 14, 2021 – Jan. 2, 2022

Opening the Curtain, Fondation of Andrei Chaglakov, Moscow, Russia

 

2020

Sekretiki: Digging up Soviet Underground Culture 1966-1985, Garage Museum, Moscow

Not Forever. 1068 – 1985, the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

The Other 50%: Womens Voices in the Public Sphere, Gregory Allicar Museum of Art, Colorado State University, CO

When Gesture Becomes Event, Kunstlerhaus Vereinigung, Vienna, Austria

Poetry and Performance, Wrocław Contemporary Museum, Wrocław Poland and Liberec Regional Gallery, Liberec, Czech Republic

Art:Tech Exhiition, the National Arts Club, New York City

 

2019

Arte e Femminismo, FM Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy

The Non-Conformists, Mo.Co. Montpeller Contemporain, France

Challenges from the Other Side, Urawa Museum, Japan

Not Jean Brown: Dada, Surrealism, Fluxus, etc. video at The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, USA

Diplomat, Guttorm Guttormsgaard archive, Oslo, Norwey

Poetry and Performance,Motorenhalle-Riesa Efau Kultur Forum, Dresden, Germany

 

2018

Fabric of Felicity, Garage Museum, Moscow

Cosmos, U.S. Embassy in Russia, Moscow, catalogExhibition

Poetry & Performance, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland

Metageography, Center of Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, Russia

From Non-conformism to Feminism, Museum of Russian Art, Minneapolis, MN

Varieties of Non-conformism, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA

 

2017

SerpentiForm, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan organized by Bulgari, Nov. 25 - Dec. 25, catalog

SerpentiForm, Singapore Art Science Museum, organized by Bulgari, Aug. 19 - Oct.15, catalog

Kollektsia! Art contemporain en URSS et en Russie 1950-2000 un don exceptionnel, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 9.17.2016 - 4.10.2017, catalog

Poetry and Performance, Gallery Nova Synagoga, Zhilina, Slovakia,

About Women, Flomenhaft gallery, New York,NY

 

2016

Kollektsia! Art contemporain en URSS et en Russie 1950-2000 un don exceptionnel, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, 9.17.2016 - 4.10.2017

SerpentiForm at Museo di Roma, Rome, Italy, organized by Bulgari, book Serpenti in Art, catalog

Something Possible Everywhere: Pier 34, NYC 1983-84, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, catalog

Perezagruzka. The New Exposition, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Thinking Pictures, Zimmerli Art Musuem, Rutgers University, NJ

 

 

2015

Metageography, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, part of the 6th Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art

Prosperous Poison, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria

History of Non-conformist Art "Duchovka & Netlenka", Museum of Moscow, Russia

The Family Tree of Russian Contemporary Art, Garage Museum, Moscow

 

2014

Post Pop: East Meets West Saatchi Gallery, London 26 Nov. 2014 - 23 Feb. 2015 (link)

Performance in Russia: a Cartography of Its History, Garage Museum, Moscow, Russia, catalog (link)

"Перформaнс в России. 1910-2010: картография его истории", Гараж музей, Москва (Elle magazine), (Art Territory)

 

Analog Network: Mail Art, 1960-1999, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

 

The Fabric of America, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York, NY

 

2013

Concepts, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

Lost in Translation, Biennale di Venezia, Italy, and The Museum Of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia

 

2012

Conceptualism. The Beginning, Arsenal State Center of Contemporary Art, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Selections from the Collection in conversation with contemporary works, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL

Russian Conceptualism and Social? Political? Beautiful? (two exhibitions) Alexandre Gertsman Contemporary Art, New York

Gallery Review, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York

Re.Act.Feminism, traveling exhibition (Costumes) (Zoo):

Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain 2011 2012;

Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb, Croatia 2012;

Instytut Sztuki Wyspa, Gdansk, Poland 2012;

Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark 2012;

Tallinna Kunstihoone, Estonia 2012;

Fundaci Antoni Tpies, Barcelona, Spain 2012;

Akademie der Knste, Berlin, Germany 2013

 

2011

33 Fragments of Russian Performances, The Performa Biennial, Performa Institute, New York

La Donazione Bentivoglio, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy

25 Years Anniversary and Wanderlust, two exhibition, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ

Portraits, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York

Remembrance and Moscow, New York, Paris, Berlin, two exhibitions, Alexandre Gertsman Contemporary Art, New York

Cross-Section, Prographica Gallery, Seattle, WA

 

2010

 

Thirty Years of Collecting: A Recent Gift to the Museum, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ

 

A Preview of Things to Come, Prographica, Seattle, WA

 

Field of Action, The Moscow Conceptual School in Context 1970 - 1980,The Cultural Foundation Ekaterina, Moscow

 

100 Years of Performance, Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

 

A Summer of Photography, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York (review)

 

Photography from Polaroid Collection, Sotheby's, New York (catalog)

 

Gender Check, traveling exhibition with catalog, hosted by Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig:

Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, 2010

Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria, 2009-2010

 

Object Focus:Books ( Works from Reed Collage Collection),Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR

 

Through The Past to the Future and Conceptual Russian Games, Alexandre Gertsman Contemporary Art, New York

 

Works from the Permanent Collection, Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse University,NY

 

Moscow Grafika, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC

 

 

2009

 

Not Toys, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia (part of The Third Moscow Biennial)

 

Interpretation of the Object in Moscow Conceptual School, Project Fabrica, Moscow, Russia (part of The Third Moscow Biennial)

 

Russian Lettrism, Central House of the Artists, Moscow

 

From Non-Conformism to Feminism, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, catalog

 

 

2008

 

A Mind at Play, Works from the Permanent Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

 

Delicatessen, Contemporary Art Museum Art4.ru, Moscow

 

History of "A-Ja" Magazine Sakharov Museum, Moscow

 

Wonders of Numbers: Art about Mathematics, the Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY

 

Moscow – New York = Parallel Play, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, 2008 and National Centre for Contemporary Arts (ГЦСИ) Moscow, 2007, Russia, catalog

 

Modern Love: Gifts to the Collection, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., catalog

 

The First Forty, The State Art Gallery of Perm, Perm and Contemporary Art Museum Art4.RU, Moscow, Russia

 

2007

 

Contemporary, Cool and Collected, The Mint Art Museum, Charlotte, NC

 

New Angelarium, Modern Art Museum, Moscow, catalog

 

20th Anniversary Exhibition, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art & Design, Sarasota, FL

 

Short Stories. Photographs 1890-2006, Macy Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY

 

2006

 

Russia! The Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain, catalog

 

Book-in-Itself, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)

 

Up Close and Personal: Portraits of the Artists, Ackland Art Museum, Ackland, NC

 

Artists Against the State, Russian Art After Perestroyka, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY

 

Hand in Hand, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis, MN

 

2005

 

Russia! The Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, catalog

 

Perhappiness, Robert Brown Gallery, Washington, D.C. (solo)

 

Perhappiness, Flomenhaft Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

 

Private Pictures: Photography from Arizona Collections, The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ

Collaborators, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia (part of The First Moscow Biennial), catalog

 

Remembrance, traveling exhibition with catalog by IntArt, NY:

Grossman Gallery, Lafayette College, Easton, PA, 2005;

Allan Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin,WI, 2004

Yeshiva University Museum, New York, NY, 2003

 

 

2004

 

Past Presence: Objects of Study at the Getty Research Institute, Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, and Grolier Club, New York, NY, catalog

 

Perhappiness, Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (solo)

 

Perhappiness, Spoleto Festival, Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art, Charleston, NC (solo)

 

Beyond Memory: Soviet Nonconformist Photography and Photo-Related Works of Art, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, book

 

Berlin-Moskau, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

 

Skin Deep, Museo d'arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Roverto, Italy, 2003-4, Skira book-catalog

 

 

2003

 

Realizing a Future, Jewish Museum, New York

 

Die Geschichte der russischen Kunst Von der russischen Avantgarde bis zur Moskauer Schule der Konzeptualisten. Berlin Moskau/ Moskau Berlin. 19552000, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

 

Polaroid Corporation Collection, traveling exhibition in Japan and the USA with catalog, hosted by Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography:

The Boston University Art Gallery and the Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA, 2003

Museum of Contemporary Art, Sapporo, 2001;

Takamatsu City Museum, 2001;

Museum of Kyoto (EKI), 2000;

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography in 2000;

 

2002

 

Eye in the Sky, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC

 

Manezh: 40 Years of Nonconformist Art, Artworks by Muscovite Artists from the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery and private collections, ArtManezh, Moscow, Russia

 

Femme Art, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia, catalog

 

2001

 

Is Seeing Believing, the Real, the Surreal, the Unreal in Contemporary Photography, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC and The Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, FL, catalog

 

Body and the East: From the 1960s to the Present, traveling exhibition organized by Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia, MIT Press book-catalog, 2001:

Exit Art, New York, NY, 2001

Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 1998

 

Faces of America, United Stated Embassy in Russia, Spaso House, 1997-2001, Moscow, catalog

 

Forbidden Art: the Postwar Russian Avant-Guarde, traveling exhibition with catalog organized by Curatorial Assistance, Inc, Los Angeles, CA,, some venues:

Bruce Museum of Art and Science, Greenwich, CT, 2001,

McMullen Museum of Art, Boston Collage, Chestnut Hill, MA, 2000,

Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl, 2000

Miami University Museum, Oxford, Ohio; 2000

The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia, 1999;

The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia, 1999;

Pasadena Art Center, CA, 1998,

 

2000

 

American Art, United States Embassy in Namibia, Windhoek, catalog

 

Photography, Beacon Gallery, Bellport Long Island, NY

 

Six Degrees of Inspiration, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia beach, VA, catalog

 

Seeing Isn't Believing, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH, catalog and poster Believe

 

 

1999

 

Photoglyphs, retrospective solo exhibition with catalog, hosted by The New Orleans Museum of Art, organized by Mark Sloan and circulated by Curatorial Assistance, Inc, Los Angeles, CA, traveling to 15 venues, 1993-1999:

Sawhill Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, 1999;

McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH, 1997;

Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL, 1996;

Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, 1996;

Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, 1996;

University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA,1995;

Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH, 1995;

Hillwood Museum. Brookville, NY, 1995;

Allegheny College Art Gallery, Meadville, PA, 1995;

Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow. ID, 1994;

New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA, 1994

Olive DeLuce Gallery, Northwest Missouri State University, 1994;

University of Colorado Gallery, Boulder, CO, 1993

Selsby Gallery, Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, FL, 1993;

Jacksonville Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL, 1993

 

Modern Art Museum: Russian Art from the End of the 50th to the Beginning of the 80th (from Abstraction to Conceptualism), Central House of the Artists, Moscow, Russia

 

Praprintium. Seltene Bucher aus dem Moskauer Samizdat, Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Austria

 

1998

 

Actionismus, Body Art, Performance 1949-79, Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria, catalog

 

Contemporary Photography, Denver Museum, Denver, CO

 

Identity Revealed, Auckland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC

 

Beyond Recognition, traveling exhibition organized with catalog, including:

Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, CT;

Montserrat College of Art Gallery, MA;

The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, CT

 

Collection in Context. Henry M. Bull Collection, traveling exhibition with catalog, including:

The Parish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, 1998

Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, 1996

 

1997

 

Photoglyphs, Retrospective solo exhibition McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH

 

Is It Art? Transgression in Contemporary Art, traveling exhibition curate by Linda Weintraub with catalog, in connection with book Art On the Edge and Over by Linda Weintraub, Arthur Danto, and Thomas McEvilley, 6 venues, including:

Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY, 1997

The Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, 1996;

Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH 1996;

Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, VA, 1995

 

Memory of Childhood, traveling exhibition with catalog organized by Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, NY, 16 venues, some of them:

Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, 1997

Creative Discovery Museum, Chattanooga, TN, 1997;

Hetzel Union and Kern Art Galleries, Pennsylvania State University, PA, 1997;

Gallery 181, College of Design, Iowa Sate University, 1996;

Spirit Square Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC, 1996;

Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 1996;

Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ, 1996;

Jenkins Fine Arts Center, East Caroline University, Greenville, NC, 1995;

Diggs Gallery, Winston-Salem State University, NC, 1995;

Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown University, PA, 1995;

McAllen International Museum, McAllen, TX, 1995;

Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY, 1995

 

1996

 

Photoglyphs, Galerie Ribbentrop, Eltville am Rhein, Germany (solo)

 

Photoglyphs, retrospective solo exhibition Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL

Photoglyphs, retrospective solo exhibition Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA

Photoglyphs, retrospective solo exhibition Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, OH

Photoglyphs, retrospective solo exhibition Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, ID

 

De Rode Poort, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Gent, Gent, Belgium, catalog

 

Doppelt Haut (Double Skin), Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany, catalog

 

Narcissism, Artists Reflects Themselves, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA, catalog

 

From Gulag to Glasnost: Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, catalog

 

Beyond Recognition. Contemporary International Photography, traveling exhibition with catalog, organized by National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 9 venues in Australia, including:

Newcastle Regional Art Gallery, Newcastle, NSW, 1996;

Wollong City Art Gallery, Wallong NSW, 1996;

Primsoll Gallery, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tas, 1996;

Lawrenns Wilson Art Gallery, Perth, WA, 1996;

New England Regional Art Museum, Armidale, NSW, 1995;

Logan Art Gallery, Logan, Qld, 1995;

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, 1995

 

1995

 

Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

 

Recent Works, Robert Brown Gallery, Washington, D.C. (solo)

 

Photoglyphs, retrospective solo exhibition University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA

Photoglyphs, retrospective solo exhibition Southern Ohio Museum, Portsmouth, OH

Photoglyphs, retrospective solo exhibition Hillwood Museum. Brookville, NY

Photoglyphs, retrospective solo exhibition Allegheny College Art Gallery, Meadville, PA

 

Polaroid Collection, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

 

Kunst im verborgenen, Noncomformisten Russland 1957-1995, Collection of contemporary art of Tsaritsino Museum, traveling exhibition in Germany with catalog, including:

Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludvigshafen-am-Rhein

Documenta-Halle, Kassel

Staatiches Lindenau Museum, Altenburg, Germany

 

1994

 

Photoglyphs, Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

 

Photoglyphs, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA (solo)

 

Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin, Desson-Saunders Gallery, Chicago. IL (solo)

 

Photoglyphs, retrospective solo exhibition continues New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

Photoglyphs, retrospective solo exhibition Olive DeLuce Gallery, Northwest Missouri State University, MO

 

Europa, Europa, Das Jahrhundert Der Avantgarde in Mittel- und Osteuropa (100 Years of Avant-garde in Central and Eastern Europe), Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle Der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany, catalog

 

Artists as Artworks, Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia

 

American Art Today: Heads Only, Frost Art Museum (former The Art Museum at Florida University), Miami, Fl, catalog

 

1993

 

PreFace, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

 

New Works, Robert Brown Gallery, Washington, D.C. (solo)

 

Photoglyphs, retrospective solo exhibition Jacksonville Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL

Photoglyphs, retrospective solo exhibition University of Colorado Gallery, Boulder, CO

Photoglyphs, retrospective solo exhibition Selsby Gallery, Ringling School of Art, Sarasota, FL

 

First Sightings. Recent Modern & Contemporary Acquisitions, The Denver Art Museum

 

We Are The People, Sandy Carson Gallery, Denver, CO

 

The Figure as Fiction, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, catalog

 

Advantage and Tradition: Books of Russian Artists of XX Cen., The State Russian Library, Moscow, catalog

New Acquisitions, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

 

Selections 5, The Fifth Biennial International Polaroid Collection, traveling exhibition with catalog hosted by Fotokina, Cologne, Germany, 13 venues, some of them:

Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE, 1993;

Kresge Art Museum, Michigan Sate University, East Lansing, MI, 1993

Royal Photographic Society, Bath, England, 1992;

Galleria Gottardo, Lugano, Switzerland, 1991;

Petofi Literary Museum, Budapest, Hungary 1991;

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, 1990;

Fotokina, Cologne, Germany in 1990

 

1992

 

Looking Glass, Deson-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

 

Herbarium, Fotogalerie Wien and Kunsthalle Exnergasse Wien, Vienna, Austria, catalog

 

Sammlung Talochkin: Moskauer Avantgarde der 50er bis 80er Jahre, Kunstation Kleinsassen, Rhon, Germany

 

1991

 

Photoglyphs, Kyle Roberts Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)

 

Photoglyphs, Deson-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)

 

Organic Union, retrospective exhibition, Fine Art Museum of Long Island, Hampstead, NY (solo)

 

Photoglyphs, The Richard Brush Art Gallery^ St.Lawerence University, Canton, NY( solo)

 

A Constructive reality: Aspects of Contemporary Photography, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

 

Russian Art, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan, catalog

 

Another Art: 1956-76, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, traveled to The State Russian Museum St.Petersburg, Russia, catalog

 

The Intuitive Eye. The Ruttenberg Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, catalog

 

In der USSR en Erbuiten. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

 

1990

 

Photoglyphs, Robert Brown Gallery, Washington, D.C. (solo)

 

Team Spirit, organized by The Independent Curators, Inc, New York, traveling exhibition with catalog, hosted by Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY; 10 venues, including:

Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita, KS, 1992

Davenport Art Museum, Davenport, IO, 1992;

Spirit Center for the Arts, Charlotte, NC, 1992;

Frost Art Museum (former The Art Museum at Florida Univ.), Miami, Fl, 1991;

Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 1991;

Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, 1991;

Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, NY, 1990

 

Transit: Russian Artists between East and West, traveling exhibition with catalog, 4 venues, including:

The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, 1990;

Central Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists, Moscow, Russia, 1990

Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Long Island, NY, 1989

Nakhamkin Gallery, New York, NY, 1989;

 

The Photography of Invention. American Pictures of the 1980s, traveling exhibition with catalog, hosted by National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C,; several venue, including:

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, 1990;

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Min. 1990;

National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1989

 

Another Art. Moscow 1956 -1976, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Miscow, Russia

 

1989

 

Still Performances, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (solo)

 

Still Performances, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA (solo)

 

Photems, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo, series Photems is made in collaboration with Mark Berghash)

 

Altar Pieces, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY

 

New Acquisitions, International Center of Photography, Midtown, New York, NY

 

Clockwork, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, catalog

 

1988

 

Photems, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA (solo, series Phomes is made in collaboration with Mark Berghash)

 

Photems and Samizdat – Sculptures, Words and Books by Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY (solo)

 

Photems, Mara Gallery, part of Triennale de la Photographie, Fribourg, Switzerland (solo)

 

Photems, Festival of Arts (AICS), Palazzo Ducale, Gubbio, Italy (solo)

 

Blank Wall Solution, Luise Ross Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

 

Splendeur et misères du corps, International Triennial of Photography, Fribourg Museum, Fribourg, Switzerland, and

Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France as Month of Photography, catalog

 

 

Two to Tango, International Center of Photography, New York, NY, and Center for the Arts, Miami, Fl.

 

Golem, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

 

1987

 

Fact-ury - Scuptures, Zeus Trabia Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

 

Photems, Marcus Pfeifer Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

 

rUSsia, City Gallery, New York

 

Retrospective of Moscow Artists, 1957-1987, Hermitage Amateur Society, Moscow, Russia

 

1986

 

The American Experience, traveling exhibition with catalog, circulated by Independent Curator Incorporated, NY, several venue, including:

The Balch Institute, Philadelphia, PA;

Lakeview Museum of Arts and Science, Peoria, IL;

Bass Museum of The Arts, Miami Beach, Fl

 

 

1985

 

C.A.S.E. Museum of Russian Contemporary Art in Exile, Jersey City, NJ (solo)

 

Cubic Organisms, St. Peter's Church, Citicorp, New York, NY (solo)

 

Emily Harvey Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

 

Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, exhibitions: City Streets, New Sculptures, Home,Sweet Home, 1985-83.

 

Exhibitions in the East Village Galleries, New York: Sensory Evolution (Combat Zone, Game Show, Summer Show) and other galleries: Civilian Warfare, La Galleria en El Bohio, Bond, Now, No-See-No, Mokotoff, Henry Street Settlement Gallery, 1985-83

 

Grommet Gallery, New York (later Emily Harvey Gallery) exhibitions: Ear Works, Mixed Grill, New Papers, 1984-82

 

1984

 

Ancient New York Mosaics, murals and video installation, Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (solo)

 

Man of Babel, La Galleria Dell'Occhio, New York, NY (solo)

 

Russian Samizdat Art, organizing the traveling exhibition with 12 venues, hosted by Franklin Furnace Gallery, NY,

book Russian Samizdat Art, Willis, Locker & Owens, New York, 1986:

 

Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR 1997

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Gallery (Lace), Los Angeles, CA, 1984

Henry Street Settlement, NY, part of Funny Books Exhibition, 1983

Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie-Melon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1983

The Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, 1983

Andor Gallery, Seattle, WA 1983

Anderson Gallery, Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, 1983

Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, part of 1984 – A Preview exhibition, 1983

Washington Project for the Arts, (WPA) Washington. D.C., 1982

Chappaqua Library Gallery, Chappaqua, NY, 1982

Rochester Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY, 1982

Franklin Furnace Gallery, NY, 1982, catalog

 

Les Russes au present, Centre Cultural de la Villedieu, France, catalog

 

1983

 

Suspended Objects, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA

 

Sacred Artifacts, Alternative Museum, New York, catalog

 

1982

 

XII Biennial of the Young, Paris, France, artists' books.

 

UNESCO Exhibition of the U.S. Delegation for the UNESCO World Conference on Cultural Politics, Mexico City, Mexico

Young Fluxus, Artists Space, New York, NY, and Washington Project for the Arts (WPA) Washington. D.C., catalog

 

Monumental Redefined Second Annual Festival, Brooklyn, NY

 

1981

 

XXI Bienal de São Paolo, Brazil, Arte Postal, catalog

Russian New Wave, Contemporary Russian Art Center, New York, NY, catalog

 

Art Garden Show, Kassel, Germany, catalog

 

Nouvelles tendences de l'art Russe non official, Centre Cultural de la Villedieu, France

 

1980

 

The 15th Annual Avant-Garde Festival of New York at the passenger Ship Terminal, New York, NY

 

Nonconformists, University Art Gallery, University of Maryland, MD, catalog

 

1979

 

Rimma Gerlovina and Valeriy Gerlovin, Nächst St.Stephan Gallery, Vienna, Austria (solo)

 

20 Jahre Unabhängige Kunst aus der Sowjetunion, Bochum Museum, Bochum, Germany, catalog

 

Other Child Book, traveling exhibition beginning at Remont Gallery, Warsaw, Poland; including venues: Palac Kultury I Nauki, Warsaw; Gerrit Reitveld Akademie, Amsterdam, Netherlands, and others, catalog

 

1978

 

La Biennale di Venezia, Settore arti visive, Venice, Italy, catalog

 

La nuova arte sovietica, Palazzo Reale, Torino, Italy, catalog

 

Arte visive incontrari mass-media. Museo del Municipio, Bellinzona, Switzerland, catalog

 

Dissenso, Museo Civico di Lodi, Lodi, Italy, catalog

 

 

1977

 

La Biennale di Venezia, La nuova arte sovietica, Venice, Italy, catalog

 

New Art from the Soviet Union, The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY, and The Art Club of Washington, Washington, D.C.; book New Art from the Soviet Union by Norton Dodge and Alison Hilton, Acropolis Books Ltd., Washington, D.C. 1977,

 

URSS 1960-77: arte cinetica, poesia visiva, arte concettuale, happenings e fotografia, Laboratorio, Milano, Italy, catalog

 

1976

 

 

Exhibition at Leonid Sokov's studio: I. Chuikov, I. Chelkovski, V. Gerlovin, R. Gerlovina, S. Shablavin, L.Sokov, A. Yulikov, Moscow, Russia

 

1974

 

Open Space Exhibition in the Izmailovo Park, Moscow, 1974 (Valeriy Gerlovin)

 

1973-71

 

Various unofficial exhibitions in artists' studios and apartments, Moscow (V.G.)

 

1971

 

Five Artists,The Art Club of the Department of Mathematics, The Moscow State University, Moscow (V.G.)

 

1968

 

50 Years of Soviet Circus, The Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow (V.G.)

 

1966

 

Stage Design Models, Russian Theater Society (VТО), Moscow (V.G.)