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LEONID LERMAN

1953 Born in Odessa, USSR
1965-1969 Attends Odessa School of Art
1970-1971 Attends Professional School of Mosaics and Wood Carving, Odessa
1979 Receives M.F.A. from V.I. Mukhina College of Art & Design, Leningrad, USSR
1980 Emigrates to the United States
1981 Receives James Wilburt Johnson Sculpture Award, Washington, D.C.
Lives and works in New York, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1985 * C.A.S.E. Museum of Russian Contemporary Art, Jersey City, NJ
1986 Paulo Salvador Gallery, New York
1987 Tradition 3 Thousand Gallery, New York
1988 * On the Edge, Leonid Lerman, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
1989 * Riskin-Sinow Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Sculpture Center Gallery, New York
1993 McKee Gallery, New York
1994 Complex Presentiment, Modernism, San Francisco
Landscape of a Victory, McKee Gallery, New York
1999 Shape of Night, McKee Gallery, New York
2002 Rochini Arte Contemporanea, Terni, Italy
2003 * The Last Man, McKee Gallery, New York
2005 * Leonid Lerman, Freedman Gallery, Albright College Center for the Arts, Reading, PA
2006 New Sculpture, McKee Gallery, New York
2008 * Phantom of Malevich, White Space Gallery, London
2010 Leonid Lerman: New Sculpture, McKee Gallery

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1978 Menage Exhibition Hall, Leningrad
1982 * Centre des Congres de Quebec, Canada
1983 Terminal, New York, Brooklyn, New York
1984 Sculpture Center Gallery, New York
Paulo Salvador Gallery, New York
“Now” Gallery, New York
1985 IMF, Washington, D.C.
P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
Galerie Marie-Therese, Paris, France
C.A.S.E. Museum of Russian Contemporary Art, Jersey City, NJ
“13 Hour Gallery,” New York
Sculpture Center Gallery, New York

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1986 * Gallery International 52, New York
No-Se-No Gallery, New York
1987 City Gallery, New York
Krain Club Gallery, New York
* Kenkeleba Gallery, New York
1988 Res Nova Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1989-1990 * Transit: Russian Artists Between the East and West, Fine Arts Museum of
Long Island, New York
1990 State Russian Museum, Leningrad
* Trietiakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Drawing Center, New York
1993 Monumental Propaganda, Courtyard Gallery, World Financial Center, New York
1993-1994 Old Symbols / New Icons in Russian Contemporary Art, Stuart Levy Fine Art, New York
1994 Ideal Landscapes: Artists from the Former Soviet Union, de Saisset Museum, Santa
Clara University, CA
1995 Heroes and Heroines: From Myth to Reality, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, NJ
5 + 5, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, New York
Prospekts: Contemporary Russian Art from New York, Chase Manhattan Bank, SoHo
branch, New York
1998 * The Edward R. Broida Collection, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Shaping Space: Drawings by Six Contemporary Sculptors, Dunedin Fine Arts Center, FL
Sculpture, McKee Gallery, New York
Faculty Show, Sculpture Center School, New York
1999 Red Square, Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, New York
1999-2000 Manifestations of the Human Spirit, Joshua Lowenfels, The Baldacchino, New York
2000 Group Show, McKee Gallery, New York
Christopher Wilmarth and Leonid Lerman: from the Edward R. Broida Collection, Audrey
Jones Beck Building, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
2001 A Private Reading: The Book As Image & Object, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
2002 National Academy of Design Museum, New York
2004 * Drawing Today, New Arts Gallery, Litchfield, CT
2005 Sculpture: An Intuitive View, McKee Gallery, New York
* Twentieth Century Sculptors of Russian and Eastern European Origin, Mimi Ferzt Gallery,
New York
2006 Collage in Russia, 20th Century, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2007 Small Bodies, McKee Gallery, New York
2009 XXXMalevich, Anya Stonelake/White Space Gallery, London
Art About Art, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2010 The Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

SELECTED REVIEWS AND ARTICLES

Ileana Suarez, The Dispatch (Hudson/Bergen Counties, NJ), November 8, 1984.
Naomi Kenan, The Jersey Journal, November 1, 1985.
Roger Green, The Times-Picayune, New Orleans, March 6, 1988.
Kollias Juna, The Chronicle, September 8, 1988.
Max Halperen, Leader Magazine, September 15, 1988.
Henry Vermillion, The Spectator, September 15 – 21, 1988.
Dennis Szakacs, The Independent Source, September 22 – October 5, 1988.
Max Halperen, The Arts Journal, October 1988.
Phyllis Braff, The New York Times, November 19, 1989.
Karen Wilkin, “At the Galleries,” Partisan Review, Spring 1993.
“Leonid Lerman,” Art Korea, April 1998.
JoAnne Milani, “Quality’s the theme in collector’s show,” The Tampa Tribune, Baylife, The Arts, Final 10, May 24, 1998.
“Body Types,” New York Magazine, August 3, 1998.
Deborah Everett, NY Arts, vol. 4, no. 3, 1999.
Ken Johnson, “Leonid Lerman,” The New York Times, March 26, 1999.
Nancy Princenthal, “Leonid Lerman at McKee,” Art in America, September 1999.
Lance Esplund, “The More the Merrier,” Modern Painters, Winter 1999.
Barry Walker, “Tina Turner, Christopher Wilmarth / In the Blue Blackness of My Sleep, Leonid Lerman: From The Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, brochure © 2000.
Ron Schira, “Creating a Language for One’s Art,” Reading Eagle, January 23, 2005.
“A Visit to Leonid Lerman’s Studio,” Logos, [web page]; http://www.logosjournal.com/issue_4.1
/lerman.htm [Accessed, March 31, 2005].
Jonathan Gilmore “Leonid Lerman at McKee,” Art in America, April 2007.