Toyo Tsuchiya



11 October 1941
Born in the village of Mikhalevo, Kalinin (now Tver)
region, USSR

1956 - 61
Studied at the secondary art school, Moscow

1964 - 69
Studied at Moscow School of Art and Industry (former
Stroganoff School)

From 1979
Lives and works in New York, USA


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1976
7 Begovaya, Moscow, USSR

1983
Storefront Gallery, New York, USA

1985
Storefront Gallery, New York, USA

1986
Semaphore Gallery, New York, USA
Zues-Trabia Gallery, New York, USA (catalogue)

1987
Glasnost, Zues-Trabia Gallery, New York, USA

1988
Trabia-MacAfee Gallery, New York, USA

1990
Eduard Nakhamkin Fine Arts, New York, USA (catalogue)

1990
Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland

1992
Berman Gallery, New York, USA (catalogue)

1994
Berman Gallery, New York, USA (catalogue)

1995
Farsettiarte, Prato, Italy (catalogue)

1997
Galleria Severiarte, Bologna, Italy

2001
The Shadows of Twentieth Century Sculptures, Russian
Pavilion, 49 Venice
Biennale (catalogue)

2005
Leonid Sokov, Sculptures Paintings Installations
Drawing, Galleria Emilio Mazzoli,
Modena, Italy (catalogue)

2009
Leonid Sokov, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1976
Unofficial exhibition in Leonid Sokov's
studio,
Moscow, USSR

1977
La nuova arte sovietica, una prospettiva non ufficiale
(New Soviet Art, an Unofficial Perspective), Venice Biennale, Italy
(catalogue)

1982
Russian Samizdat Art, Franklin Furnace Gallery,
New York, USA

1982
Allen Stone Gallery, New York, USA

1986
Exit Art, Group show
New York, USA

1986-87
Sots Art, New Museum, New York, USA (catalogue)
traveling exhibition
Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, USA
Gallery Starford, Ontario, Canada
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

1989-90
Transit: Russian Artist between the East and West,
Fine Art Museum of Long Island, NY, USA
Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
Central Exhibition Hall, Krymskiy Val, Moscow, Russia
(catalogue)

1991
Soviet Contemporary Arts, From the Thaw to Perestroika,
Setagaya Museum, Tokyo, Japan

1991
In de USSR en erbuiten, Stedelik Museum, Amsterdam,
Holland (catalogue)

1995
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea (catalogue)

1994-98
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts,
USA (catalogue)

1999
Soviet and Post-Soviet Sots-Art and American Pop Art
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University
of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA (catalogue)

2002-04
Malevich and Film, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon,
Portugal (catalogue)
Malevich and Film, Fundacion "La Caixa", Madrid, Spain
(catalogue)

2003-04
Berlin Moscow / Moscow Berlin
Moskau Depaum, Martin Gropius Bau,Berlin, Germany
Stootliches Histte Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia
(catalogue)

2004
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea (catalogue)

2005
Shadow Play,
Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany;
Landesgalerie Linz, Austria
(catalogue)

2005 - 2006
Russia!,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA(catalogue)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain(catalogue)

2006
Territories of Terror, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston,Massachusetts, USA
(catalogue)

2007
Sots Art, Tretykov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
(2-nd Moscow Biennale), Moscow,Russia
Sots Art, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France

2007
ATTITUDE The House of Human Beings
Authentically Blessed Jubilance
Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan

2008
Memoria- Casting a Gaze, Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan
THIS OBSCURE OBJECT OF ART,Stella Art Foundation,
Collection of Contemporary Russian Art at the
Kunsthistorische Museum,
Vienna, Austia
THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF ART, from Stella Art Foundation,Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia,
Venice, Italy (as part of the 53-rd Venice Biennale)

2008 - 2009
Total Enlightment. Moscow Conceptual Art 1960 – 1990, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt,
Germany Fundation Juan March, Madrid, Spain (catalog)
Russian Povera.An exhibition of contemporary art
River Station Hall,Perm, Russia
'Red October', (3-th Moscow Biennale), Moscow,Russia

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
National Gallery of Australia, Sydney, Australia
Pushkin Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia
Tretykov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Russian Museum , St Petersburg, Russia
Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers State
University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
Cremona Foundation, Maryland, USA
Duke University Museum of Art, North Carolina, USA
Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading,
Pennsylvania, USA
Art Gallery of the Ripon College, Ripon Wisconsin,USA
Contemporary Art Museum Kumamoto, Japan