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Nationality
  
United States

Name
  
Alexander Kosolapov


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Born
  
1943 (
1943
)
Moscow, U.S.S.R.

Education
  
Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry, Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture

Known for
  
Mixed media, Sculpture, Painting

Notable work
  
'Lenin and Coca-Cola'

Александр Косолапов


Alexander Kosolapov (Russian: Александр Семёнович Косолапов) (born January 1, 1943, in Moscow, Russia) 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.

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Biography

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In the late 1950s Kosolapov attended the Art School of the Surikov Moscow Art Institute. Amongst his classmates were Leonid Sokov, Alexander Yulikov, amidst others.

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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.

Public collections

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  • 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, USA
  • The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, USA
  • The Mead Art Museum, Massachusetts, USA

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    References

    Alexander Kosolapov Wikipedia
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