Modern Art

Born in Moscow, Russia, 1982
Lives and works in New York, NY, USA

Education
2011

MFA

University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2008

Residency

Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, USA

2004

BFA, Painting

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI, USA

2003

European Honours Program

Rome, Italy

Solo Exhibitions
2023

To Prison

Nonaka-Hill, Los Angeles, CA, USA

After birth

Taka Ishii Gallery, Kyoto, Japan

2022

A Solid House

Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA

Center

Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany

2021

Recent Faces

Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, USA

The House of the Spider

Modern Art, London

2020

Frozen Dress (part three)

Capitan Petzel, Berlin, Germany

Frozen Dress (part two)

Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, USA

Frozen Dress (part one)

Modern Art, London, UK

Sanya Kantarovsky

Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2019

On Them

Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, USA

2018

Disease of the Eyes

Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

2017

Infinitely Repeating Pattern, with George McCracken

Art Basel, Miami Beach, FL, USA

Letdown

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

2016

Feral Neighbours

Modern Art, London

In the Gutter

Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany

2015

Happy Soul

Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland

Apricot Juice, with Ieva Misevičiūtė

Studio Voltaire, London

Gushers

Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2014

Happy Soul

LAXART, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Little Vera, with Ella Kruglyanskaya

Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga, Latvia

Allergies

Casey Kaplan, New York

Sanya Kantarovsky

Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2013

Monday's Dirty Light

Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA, USA

The Flat Made Thing, with Frances Stark

Art Basel Features, Marc Foxx, Basel, Switzerland

You are Not an Evening

Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst (GAK), Bremen, Germany

2012

Sanya Kantarovksy

LAXART façade and billboard, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Dear Dilettante

Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany

Blue Notebook No. 10

Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2011

Untitled (for Nadja Rusheva)

New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2009

Mutualisms

AMT Alberto Matteo Torri, Milan, Italy

2008

Simple Past

BW Space, Berlin, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions
2023

Modern Art

Paris, France

Monotypes

Edition VFO at Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Soul Mapping

Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

Artists for Artists Space

Artists Space, New York, NY, USA

Reaching for the Stars

Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy

Brave New World

Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands

The Moth and the Thunderclap

curated by Simon Grant, Modern Art, London

2022

Dark Light: Realism in the Age of Post-Truths

Aïshti Foundation, Antelias, Lebanon

The History of Forgetting

Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles, CA, USA

HANGA, Tomoo Gokita + Sanya Kantarovsky

Taka Ishii Gallery, Hong Kong, China

Omelette Papier

Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany

Brave New World: 16 Painters for the 21st Century

Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands

My Reflection of You

The Perimeter, London

2021

Mother and Child

Friends Indeed Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA

House of Perception

Antenna Space, Shanghai, China

Will‑o’-the-wisp - Sanya Kantarovsky and Camille Blatrix

Modern Art, London

Someone said that the world’s a stage

Grimm, New York, NY, USA

Plus One

Luhring Augustine, Chelsea, New York, NY, USA

Before the Cockerel Crows

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

2020

100 Drawings from Now

Drawing Center, New York, NY

Infinite Games

Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany

A Beautiful Night for All the People, 2nd Garage Art Triennial

Moscow, Russia

BED AND CLOCK, MOON AND BEACH: Edvard Munch

Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany

(Nothing But) Flowers

Karma, NY, New York

Radical Figures: Painting in the New Millennium

Whitechapel Gallery, London

This Corrosion

Modern Art, London

2019

Drawing Biennial 2019

Drawing Room, London

Prints and Editions

Luhring Augustine, New York, NY, USA

Let Me Tell You a Story

The Arts Club, London

2018

Nightfall, curated by Erika Verzutti, Fernanda Brenner, and Milovan Farronato

Mendes Wood DM, Brussels, Belgium

Chambres à Part

Galerie Félix Vercel, Paris, France

Helen at the Mountain, organised by Anne Eastman

Tetsuo’s Garage, Nikko, Japan

Nothing Will Be As Before: Ten Years of Tanya Leighton

Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany

GIVE UP THE GHOST

Baltic Triennial 13, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

ICA Collection: Entangled in the Everyday

ICA Boston, Boston, MA, USA

2017

Social Surfaces

Artists Space, New York, NY, USA

The Trick Brain

Aïshti Foundation, Antelias, Lebanon

La Vie simple – Simplement la vie / Songs of Alienation

Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles, France

EuroVisions: Contemporary Art from the Goldberg Collection

The National Art School Gallery, Sydney, NSW, Australia, travelling to: Lismore Regional Gallery, Lismore, NSW (2017); Heide Museum of Modern Art, Bulleen, VIC (2018); Canberra Museum and Gallery, Canberra, ACT (2018); Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst, NSW (2019)

The Arcades: Contemporary Art and Walter Benjamin

The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA

Menagerie: Animals on View

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA

Thinking Out Loud: Notes for an Evolving Collection

The Rachofsky Collection, The Warehouse, Dallas, TX, USA

An Uncanny Likeness

Simon Lee Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2016

La Perle

Art : Concept, Paris, France

Giles

Gagosian, Athens, Greece

A Modest Proposal

Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY, USA

Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy

Repetition, curated by Nicola Lees

Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium

Theories of Modern Art

Modern Art, London

Inaugural Exhibition

Romeo, New York, NY, USA

The Eccentrics

Sculpture Center, New York, NY, USA

Untitled Body Parts

Simone Subal, New York, NY, USA

SURRREAL

König Galerie, Berlin, Germany

2015

The Funnies

MOT International, Brussels, Belgium

Tightrope Walk: Painted Images After Abstraction, curated by Barry Schwabsky

White Cube, London

Over you/you

The 31st Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Works on Paper

William Arnold, New York, NY, USA

I refuse to participate in failure

Spreez, Munich, Germany

CALL AND RESPONSE

Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY, USA

2014

Live and Let Die

Modern Art, London

Another Cats Show

356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Heather Guertin, Sanya Kantarovsky, Viola Yesiltac

Malraux’s Place, New York, NY, USA

Bard Girls Can Fly

White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MI, USA

What Were You Expecting, Mr. Milquetoast, a Plot?

Badischer Kunstverein, Karslruhe, Germany

2013

D

ZweiDrei, Berlin, Germany

10 Years

Wallspace, New York, NY, USA

Notes on Neo Camp, curated by Chris Sharp

Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium, travelling to Studio Voltaire, London

New Year’s Day Swimmers

Altman Siegel, San Francisco, CA, USA

Out of The Blue

Bortolami, New York, NY, USA

Last Laugh, curated by Summer Guthery

The Company, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Phases, co-curated by Wallspace and Kelly Taxter

Wallspace, New York, NY, USA

Things, Words and Consequences

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia

CKTV, Clepatra’s Intercity Pavilions Project

Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai, China

A Fear of Paranoia (screening), curated by Amanda Hunt

Various Small Fires, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2011

Next Season

Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Emerging Artists Exhibition

Los Angeles Initiative at Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA, USA

3328 Hours of Sunshine

Clifton Benevento, New York, NY, USA

All that is Unseen

Allan Nederpelt Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2009

Lost and Found

New Museum, New York, NY, USA

2008

Disegni

AMT Alberto Matteo Torri, Milan, Italy

Supernature

Howard House Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, USA

2007

Reality/Alternation

Brenda Taylor Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2006

Tiny Vices, curated by Tim Barber

Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Three Painters, curated by Gary Owen

Howard House Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, USA

2005

Terra Non Firma

Howard House Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, USA

Los Muertos

Kings County Space, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Sunday Afternoon

Match-Art, New York, NY, USA

2004

Rhode Island School of Design Juried Senior Invitational

Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI, USA

Rhode Island School of Design Painting/Printmaking Final Exhibition

Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI, USA

Blacklight City Neon Nation

Red Door Gallery, Providence, RI, USA

2003

European Honours Program Fall Show

Palazzetto Cenci, Rome, Italy

Quattro Giorni, Quaranta Disegni

Palazzetto Cenci, Rome, Italy

European Honours Program Spring Show

Palazzetto Cenci, Rome, Italy

2002

Rhode Island School of Design Juried Painting Biennial

Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI, USA

MARABU

Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany

Selected Collections

Aïshti Foundation

Antelias, Lebanon

Art Gallery of New South Wales

Sydney, Australia

Booth School of Business

The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Buffalo AKG Art Museum

Buffalo, NY, USA

The Courtauld

London

Hammer Museum

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

Washington, D.C., USA

ICA Boston

Boston, MA, USA

ICA Miami

Miami, FL, USA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art

Chicago, IL, USA

Rhode Island School of Design

Providence, RI, USA

The Rachofsky Collection

Dallas, TX, USA

Tate, London

London

Whitney Museum of American Art

New York, NY, USA