Leonid Sokov

Leonid Sokov (Russian: Леони́д Петро́вич Со́ков, October 11, 1941, Tver region – April 4, 2018 in Copake, New York, United States) was a Russian nonconformist artist and sculptor. He primarily lived and worked in New York City.

Leonid Sokov in 2012

Life and work

Sokov was born in Mikhalevo in the Tver region, Russia in 1941 and graduated from the Stroganov Institute now called the Moscow School of Art and Industry, in 1969. He emigrated to the United States in 1980. His compositions are in the Pop style, adapted to Socialist Realism through the use of ideology as an object of consumption. He is closely related to the Sots art movement and he has worked with others in that genre including Dmitry Prigov, Alexander Kosolapov, and Rostislav Lebedev.

In 2001 he represented Russia at the Venice Biennale.[1] He participated in the 2004 Gwangju Biennale in Gwangju, South Korea.

In 2012, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMoMA) honored the artist's 70th birthday with a major retrospective and publication on the artist's career and work.[2]

In 2016, The State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow held a major retrospective museum show dedicated to the artist's life and work.

Public collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMoMA), Moscow, Russia
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 Cleveland Museum of Art, USA[3]

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References

Leonid Sokov: Sculptures, Paintings, Objects, Installations, Documents, Articles, Moscow: The State Russian Museum, Palace Editions, 2000. ISBN 3-930775-71-9

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[1] studio-international.co.uk

[2] ttp://www.mmoma.ru/en/exhibitions/gogolevsky/leonid_sokov_ugol_zreniya/

[3] velandart.org