LEONID
BORISOV
Leonid Borisov was born in Leningrad in 1943. In 1959,
he visited an exhibition of contemporary American art in
Sokolniky, Moscow, where he first became acquianted with
abstract art. In 1968, he graduated from the Leningrad Electro-Technical
Communications Institute. In 1971, he met non-conformist
artists Alexander Leonov, Dmitry Plavinsky, Sergey Bordachev
and Vyacheslav Kalinin. In 1975, he participated in the
exhibition “Painting. Sculpture and Graphics” in the Nevsky
House of Culture in Leningrad. With other non-conformist
artists, he protested against the ban on public display
of abstract art by participating in an outdoor exhibition
by the wall of the Peter and Paul Fortress in Leningrad
in 1976. In 1987, Borisov became member of the Fellowship
for Experimental Visual Arts. In 1991, he joined the Association
of Russian Artists in Paris, France. He is member of the
Russian Creative Union of Artists since 1996.
Leonid’s works are found in the State Tretyakov Gallery
in Moscow, Russia; the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg,
Russia; All-Russian Pushkin Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia;
the State Hermitage in St. Petersburg, Russia; the Russian
Culture Foundation in Moscow, Russia; Free Culture Humanities
Foundation; Savitsky Fine Arts Gallery in Penza, Russia;
Moscow Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, Russia; the Dresden
Gallery in Germany; The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum
at the Rutgers University in USA; Bar-Gera Collection in
Cologne, Germany; and in other collections around the world.
Selected solo exhibitions:
1978 – The Krupskaya House of Culture, Leningrad
1994 – Cubism, Gallery-21, St. Petersburg
1995 – Geometry, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
1998 – Lessons of Geometry, Rosizo Gallery, Moscow
1999 – Homage to Malevich, Center for Contemporary Arts,
St. Petersburg
2001 – Dada Deformations, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
2001 – Black Nights, Tochka Gallery, St. Petersburg
2005 – Paintings, Objects, Sculptures. Central House of
Artists, Moscow
2005 – Italy. Switzerland. Photos. Kino-Fot Gallery, St.
Petersburg
2005 – Concrete Art, Kino Gallery, Moscow
2006 – People of Malevich, Borey Gallery, St. Petersburg
2007 – I live, I see, Tyumen Region Fine Arts Museum and
Tobolsk State Historical-Archival Museum, Russia
2007 – Game, Atelier #2 Gallery, Moscow
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