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Ilya Kabakov

1933-09-30 – 2023-05-27

Portrait of Ilya Kabakov
Title: Ilya Kabakov, Russian painter, Ron Feldman Gallery, NYC Creator(s): Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer Date Created/Published: [1988] Medium: 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35mm (slide format) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-gtfy-02067 (digital file from original) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication. For information see "Bernard Gotfryd," (https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.592.gotf) Access Advisory: Please use digital image: original slide is kept in cold storage for preservation. Call Number: LC-GB05- 2067 [P&P] Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Notes: Title from slide mount and other caption information provided by the photographer. Photo agency: Newsweek. On mount: U157. Photograph taken during Kabakov's first American exhibit 'Ten Characters' at the Feldman Gallery, 31 Mercer Street, New York, New York, May 5, 1988. Gift; Bernard Gotfryd; 2004; (DLC/PP-2004:032). Subjects: United States--New York (State)--New York. artists Personalities Format: Slides--Color--1980-1990. Part of: Bernard Gotfryd photograph collection (Library of Congress) Bookmark This Record: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2020731608/Credit: Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer

Life & Legacy

Ilya Iosifovich Kabakov (Ukrainian: Ілля Йосипович Кабаков, romanized: Illia Yosypovych Kabakov; Russian: Илья Иосифович Кабаков; September 30, 1933 – May 27, 2023) was an American and Soviet conceptual artist, born in Dnipropetrovsk in what was then the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union, now Ukraine. He worked for thirty years in Moscow, from the 1950s until the late 1980s. After emigrating to the United States he lived and worked on Long Island.

Occupation & Career

sculptor, painter, artist, printmaker, photographer, conceptual artist, draftsperson, visual artist, video artist, illustrator, designer, collagist, installation artist, watercolorist, graphic artist, writer, caricaturist

Education

Moscow Academic Art Liceum

Accomplishments, Inventions & Publications

Goslarer Kaiserring; Aachen Art Prize; Max Beckmann prize; Praemium Imperiale; Order of Friendship

Legacy Highlights

Honors & Awards

Aachen Art Prize · Goslarer Kaiserring · Max Beckmann prize · Order of Friendship · Praemium Imperiale

Organizations & Memberships

European Academy of Sciences and Arts · Ilya & Emilia Kabakov · Jan Fabre & Ilya Kabakov

Education & Institutions

Moscow Academic Art Liceum

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Sources & Provenance

  1. Wikidata population candidate Q699736 — wikidata View source

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