Alexander Kosolapov (; born January 1, 1943) is a Russian-American

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. He immigrated to the United States in 1975 and has since lived and worked in

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Biography

In the late 1950s Kosolapov attended the school of the Surikov Moscow Art Institute. Amongst his classmates were

Leonid Sokov Leonid Sokov (, October 11, 1941, Tver region – April 4, 2018 in Copake, New York, United States) was a Russian nonconformist artist and sculptor. Since 1980, Sokov primarily lived and worked in New York City. Life and work Sokov was born i ...

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. After his

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, 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

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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.

Public collections

* The State

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, St. Petersburg, Russia * The State

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, Moscow, Russia * The

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(MoMA), New York * The

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Street (Manhattan), 89th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It hosts a permanent coll ...

, New York * The

New Museum The New Museum of Contemporary Art is a museum at 235 Bowery, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-nam ...

, New York * The

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(MMoMA), Moscow, Russia * The

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, New York * The

National Centre for Contemporary Arts The National Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA; ) in Moscow, Russia, is a museum, exhibition and research organization which primarily aims its efforts at the development of Contemporary Russian Art within the context of the global art process. ...

, Moscow, Russia * The ART4.RU Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Moscow, Russia * The

Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum (known popularly as the Zimmerli Art Museum) is located on the Voorhees Mall of the campus of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The museum houses more than 60,000 works, including Russian and ...

at Rutgers University, US * The

Nasher Museum of Art The Nasher Museum of Art (previously the Duke University Museum of Art) is the art museum of Duke University, and is located on Duke's campus in Durham, North Carolina, United States. History In 1936, art collector William Hayes Ackland wro ...

at Duke University, US * The

Mead Art Museum Mead Art Museum houses the fine art collection of Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts. Opened in 1949, the building is named after architect William Rutherford Mead (class of 1867), of the prestigious architectural firm McKim, Mead & Whi ...

, Massachusetts, US

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* * 1943 births Living people 20th-century American painters American male painters Jewish American painters Jewish Russian painters 21st-century American painters 21st-century American male artists Modern painters Artists from Moscow Soviet emigrants to the United States 20th-century Russian sculptors 20th-century American male artists Russian male sculptors Jewish Russian sculptors Jewish American sculptors 20th-century American sculptors 21st-century American sculptors American male sculptors 20th-century Russian male artists Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry alumni {{US-sculptor-stub