Alexander Kosolapov

Alexander Kosolapov (Russian: Александр Семёнович Косолапов; born January 1, 1943) is a Russian-American sculptor and painter. He immigrated to the United States in 1975 and has since lived and worked in New York City.

Biography[edit]

In the late 1950s Kosolapov attended the school of the Surikov Moscow Art Institute. Amongst his classmates were Leonid Sokov and Alexander Yulikov.^[1]

After his emigration, the artist played a critical role in assisting in the gathering of materials and clandestine distribution of the unofficial Soviet art magazine A-YA, edited by fellow Russian emigre Igor Chelkovski.

Since his Soviet-era canvases (one of which was displayed in Times Square in 1982), he has produced more modern works, including Mickey Mouse sharing a conversation with Jesus, Tatlin's Tower leaning away from the clutches of a skeleton, and a Mercedes sporting an onion dome.^[2]

Public collections[edit]

• The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
• The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
• The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York
• The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
• The New Museum, New York
• The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMoMA), Moscow, Russia
• The New York Public Library, New York
• 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, US
• The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, US
• The Mead Art Museum, Massachusetts, US

References[edit]

External links[edit]

• Official website
• Sloane Gallery of Art

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