Name Leonid Sokov | Books Leonid Sokov | |
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Leonid sokov meeting of two sculptures saatchi gallery december 2012
Leonid Sokov (Russian: Леони́д Петро́вич Со́ков, born 11 October 1941, Tver region) is a Russian nonconformist artist and sculptor. He lives and works in New York City.
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- Leonid sokov meeting of two sculptures saatchi gallery december 2012
- Life and work
- Public collections
- References
Life and work
Sokov was born in Mikhalevo in the Tver region, Russia in 1941 and graduated from the Stroganov Institute now called the Moscow School of Art and Industry, in 1969. He emigrated to the United States in 1980. His compositions are in the Pop style, adapted to Socialist Realism through the use of ideology as an object of consumption. He is closely related to the Sots art movement and he has worked with others in that genre including Dmitry Prigov, Alexander Kosolapov, and Rostislav Lebedev.
In 2001 he represented Russia at the Venice Biennale. He participated in the 2004 Gwangju Biennale in Gwangju, South Korea.
In 2012, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMoMA) honored the artist's 70th birthday with a major retrospective and publication on the artist's career and work.