Curriculum Vitae

 

1974  Born in Kemerovo, Siberia, Russia

1995  Exiled from Russia and granted political asylum in the US, moved to New York City

2004  Together with Brian Kenny formed SUPERM, a collaborative multimedia team

2011  Became a US citizen

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024  Brain Slave, two-person show with Brian Kenny (SUPERM), Setareh Gallery, Berlin

2024  Bad Guys Good Sports, Mexican Jihad & Co, Mexico City

2023  Analog Human Studies, Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, NYC

2023  Cabrones de Armas, two-person show with Bruce LaBruce, Manos Amigues, Mexico City

2022  Stock Boyz, Eisenherz Berlin

2021  Рассвет Не За Горами, 3537.ORG, Dover Street Market Paris, Comme des Garçons Berlin

2020  Polaroid Rage and Black Is Beautiful, Galerie Kernweine, Stuttgart

2020  My Existence = My Resistance, The Ballery, Berlin

2019  XXX Files, online exhibition with Tom of Finland Store, LA

2018  Lost Boys (traveling exhibition), Galerie Kernweine, Stuttgart

2016  Lost Boys: From Russia with Love, public art exhibition at Artwall, Letna Park, Prague

2014  AMORESUPERM, La Fresh Gallery, Madrid

2014  SUPERM Fruit, Please Do Not Enter, Los Angeles

2014  De Rusia con Amor, Galeria casaBrandon, Buenos Aires

2013  In the Name of Love, curated by Karla Romero, iMOCA, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art

2013  Intimate Portraitstwo-person show with Maripol, The Impossible Project, NYC

2013  Take Five, Lomography Gallery Store, NYC

2012  Beauty and Hell (SUPERM), envoy enterprises, NYC

2011  Suddenly Last Summer, curated by Diego Cortez, AS IF Gallery, Harlem, NYC

2011  Interpenetration (SUPERM), La Petite Mort Gallery, Ottawa, Canada

2010  Lost Boys (traveling exhibition), La Fresh Gallery, Madrid

2009  Food Chain, envoy enterprises, NYC

2009  Lost Boys (traveling exhibition), Galerie Terre Rouge, Kulturfabrik, Esch, Luxembourg

2009  Lost Boys (traveling exhibition), Galeria Pauza, Krakow, Poland

2008  White Is Dirty When Ugly (SUPERM), envoy enterprises, NYC

2008  SPUTNIK3 (SUPERM + Gio Black Peter), Galleri S.E, Bergen, Norway

2007  Slava Mogutin and Justin Beal (two-person show), Bortolami Gallery, NYC

2007  But Her Majesty’s Roastbeef Curtains Wouldn’t Open For Him (SUPERM), Blow de la Barra Gallery, London

2006  Slava Mogutin: Photography and Video, Allmänna Galleriet 925, Stockholm

2005  New York Underground (SUPERM, with Rainer Fetting), Galerie Deschler, Berlin

2004  No Love, RARE Gallery, NYC

2003  Lost Boys, RARE Gallery, NYC

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

2024

POST PORN, curated by Naruki Kukita, nAd gallery, Brooklyn, NY

LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History, cuarted by Corey Serrant, Swann Galleries, NYC

Mighty Real/Queer Detroit: I’ll Be Your Mirror, curated by Patrick Burton, Anton Art Center, Detroit 

Vitam Picturarum (Life in Pictures), Queer Biennial 2024, curated by Rubén Esparza, Long Hall, Los Angeles

SPORNO, Sofia Porn Fest, curated by Voin de Voin, Æther Art Space Sofia, Bulgaria

Art Speaks Through US, Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival, Berghain, Berlin

The Renegade Art Show, OUTLAW Rave, Ice Cream Factory, Brooklyn, NY

Carne Sagrada, curated by Slava Mogutin and Perras de Museo, Manos Amigues, Mexico City

 

2023

Performative Self-Portrait, curated Conor Moynihan and Matthew Kluk, RISD Museum, Providence, Rhode Island

Self-Exposure, curated by Naruki Kukita, nAd gallery, Brooklyn, NY

My Gay Eye Uncensored, curated by Rinaldo Hopf, Eisenherz Berlin

Cut-Ups, curated by Rubén Esparza, Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival, Soho Warehouse, LA

Désir/Desire, curated by Yves de Brabander and Eric LeRouge, Village Berlin (catalog)

Visible Love: 10 Years of Container Love, Pop Kudamm, Berlin

Body/Colour/Shame, curated by Ronald Dofing, Dorado Coffee, Prague

AllTogether Clubhouse, curated by Tom of Finland Foundation and The Community Centre Paris, NYC

Raised in a Lie, curated my Marcus Mod, Stigtuna Museum, Sweden

Bribones & Libertines, curated by Stuart Sandford and Rubén Esparza, Pequeños Bribones, Mexcio City

 

2022

UNZUCHT_Against Nature, Village Berlin (catalog)

WHO AM I? I AM, curated by Galerie Kernweine, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany (catalog)

AllTogether, curated by Tom of Finland Foundation, Studio Cannaregio, Venice, and The Community Centre, Paris (catalog)

 

2020

Intimacy: New Queer Art from Berlin and Beyond, curated by Peter Rehberg, Schwules Museum, Berlin

Protest for Progress, virtual show curated by Round Lemon, Zest Hall, London

The Summer That Wasn't, virtual show cuarted by Bill Arning Exhibitions, Houston, Texas

Circus of Books: Blowout, virtual show curated by Rachel Mason, Fierman Gallery, NYC

Intersectional, virtual show curated by Lars Deike and Richard Schemmerer, Berlin

From Russians with Love, curated by Simon Williams, The Ballery, Berlin

Round Hole Square Peg, curated by Phil Turley and Ruben Esparza, Photo LA, Santa Monica

 

2019

Soup, curated by Gio Black Peter, 50 Taaffe, Brooklyn, NY

Criminalize This! The Social Policing of Gender and the Criminalization of Queerness, co-curated by Mary Gagler and Lorenzo Triburgo, Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Photography After Stonewall, curated by Larry Davis and Bill Travis, Soho Photo Gallery, NYC

Hotel Europa: Their Past, Your Present, Our Future, curated by Théo-Mario Coppola, Open Space of Experimental Art, Tbilisi, Georgia

Love My Way, curated by Jean-Pierre Blanc & Pau Avia, 34th International Festival of Fashion and Photography, Villa Romaine, Hyeres, France

(No) Fun, curated by Jimi Dams, Empirical Nonsense, NYC

 

2018

The Violators, curated by Gio Black Peter, Studio UZI, Brooklyn, and Leslie-Lohman Project Space, NY

Hollywood 2.0, curated by Jack Sanders and Homosurrealism Magazine, Touchon&Co Gallery, LA

Sound & Noise, curated by Erik Raynal x SORT Zine, Space_31, Berlin

New Chic, curated by Arnis Balčus and Alnis Stakle, Riga Photomonth, Riga Congress Center, Latvia

 

2017

Golden Boundaries: Youth Culture in Contemporary Photography, curated by Kata Oltai, Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, Budapest, Hungary

Intersectional Identities, curated by Sam Gordon and Jacob Robichaux, Clifford Chance, NYC

9999, curated by Edsel Williams, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY

University of Disasters, curated by Matthew Grumbach, Bortolami Gallery, NYC

HE: Questioning and Queering Masculinity, curated by Robert Summers and Stiofan O’Ceallaigh, Last Projects, LA

Baby, I Like It Raw: Post-Eastern Bloc Photography and Video, curated by Marie Tomanova and Thomas Beachdel, Czech Center New York

 

2016

Tomorrow Never Happens, curated by Richard Rinehart, Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania (as SUPERM; catalog)

App & Down, curated by Topacio Fresh (as SUPERM), Centro Cultural La Térmica, Málaga, Spain (catalog)

Piss Elegant, curated by Billy Miller of Straight to Hell, Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, The LGBT Community Center, NYC

My Gay Eye, curated by Simon Williams & Rinaldo Hopf, The Ballery, Berlin

 

2015

Yesterday We Wanted To Be The Sky, Kamarade, Stockholm, Sweden; curated by C-Print Journal

Identalterity, The 5th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, curated by Syrago Tsiara and Theodore Markoglou, Thessaloniki Municipal Hall, Greece  

Interface: Queer Artists Forming Communities through Social Media, curated by Walt Cessna, Leslie-Lohman Museum, NYC (catalog) 

Faceless, curated by Bogomir Doringer, De Markten, Brussels, Belgium (traveling exhibition)

A Corps Perdus,  curated by Marc Donnadieu, Galerie Gourvennec Ogor, Marseille, France

 

2014

Prague Pride: East Side Story, Karlin Studios, Prague; curated by Michal Novotný, Serena Fanara, Giulia Gueci

Queer Biennial l: LA/NY and parts in between, Coagula Curatorial, LA; curated by Ruben Esparza (catalog)

Guest List, The Impossible Project Barcelona, Espai Tactel, Valencia, and Mundano, Oporto, Spain; curated by Paco y Manolo (traveling exhibition, catalog)

Only The Good Ones: The Snapshot Aesthetic Revisited, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague; curated by Michal Nanoru (catalog)

Faceless: Seduction, Surveillance, Privacy, Mediamatic Fabriek, Amsterdam; curated by Bogomir Doringer (traveling exhibition)

That's How a Man Smells, Bitch! düo galerie, Paris; curated by Congrats! Magazine

 

2013

L'ère Vulgaire Passera, Galerie Esther Woerdehoff, Paris; curated by Patrik Schedler (catalog)

Take a Walk on the Wild Side: To Russia with Love. And to Lou Reed, Egbert Baqué Contemporary Art, Berlin

Faceless part 1, freiraum quartier21 International, MuseumsQuartier, Vienna; curated by Bogomir Doringer

Corps et Histoire, Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France

Making Waves, Daniel Cooney Fine Arts, NYC

Boy! Oh, boy! Casa de Costa, NYC; curated by Jason Costa and Josh McNey

I See Rainbows, -kunstplass 5, Oslo, Norway; curated by Bjørn Hatterud (catalog)

Queerussia: the hidden (p)art, Galerie MooiMan, Groningen, The Netherlands

Polari, True Love Gallery, Seattle, WA; curated by Steven Miller

 

2012

Up Against It, Munch Gallery, NYC; curated by Billy Miller

Portrait of a Generation, The Hole, NYC; curated by Kathy Grayson (catalog)

For Personal Use, The Impossible Project, NYC; curated by East Village Boys (SUPERM)

Androméstico, La Fresh Gallery, Madrid; curated by Guillermo Espinosa

FG.Ft – Fad Gadget, Frank Tovey; envoy enterprises, NYC; curated by Jimi Dams (catalog)

 

2011

View of Outer Space from an Aquarium, Famous Accountants, Brooklyn, NY; curated by Billy Miller

Act Like You're Fine: A Study on Obsession, Vacant Gallery, Tokyo; curated by iO Tillett-Wright

Qeering Sex, Human Resources, LA; curated by Kathryn Garcia and Sarvia Jasso

Surveying the Immigrant Experience, The LGBT Community Center, NYC; curated by Chris Hanway

My Spring Fling Turned Into My Summer Dream, Splatterpool Art Space, Brooklyn, NY; curated by j. morrison

For Love Not Money, The 15th Tallinn Print Triennial, KUMU Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia; curated by Eve Kask, Eha Komissarov, and Simon Rees (catalog)

 

2010

Altered Statehood (as SUPERM), Artists' Television Access, San Francisco; programmed by Billy Miller.

POSTERMAT, The Hole, NYC; curated by Kathy Grayson

Una Gran Familia, La Fresh Gallery, Madrid

The Infidels, La Petite Mort Gallery, Ottawa, Canada; curated by Guy Berube

Streeple, Monat der Fotografie, Kunstraum Richard Sorge, Berlin; curated by Paulus Fugers (catalog)

Your Last Chance, The New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY; curated by Billy Miller

50 Ways To Keep Your Lover, Galleri S.E, Bergen, Norway

T Minus 20, Christopher Henry Gallery, NYC; curated by Jason LeBlond and Ves Pitts

Because We Are, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, Texas; curated by Tim Gonzalez (catalog)

 

2009

Summer Drunk Tank, City Art Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand; curated by Young Sun Han

MAD Paperball, Museum of Arts and Design, NYC

Love For Sale, The New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY; curated by Billy Miller

Lyst (Lust), Overgaden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen; curated by Tomas Lagermand Lundme and Mathias Kryger

Don’t Worry It’s Only Money, City Art Rooms, Auckland, New Zealand; curated by Young Sun Han

Turn On, Slag Gallery, NYC; curated by Özkan Cangüven

Screwball Asses, The Company Gallery, Los Angeles; curated by Hedi El Kholti and David Jones

Get a Rope, CTRL Gallery, Houston, Texas; curated by Kathy Grayson

History of Violence, The Haifa Museum of Art, Israel; curated by Hadas Maor (SUPERM, catalog)

 

2008

It Ain’t Fair, O.H.W.O.W., The Art Basel Miami satellite group show curated by Tim Barber, Kathy Grayson, Andreas Melas, Dan Nadel, Pablo de la Barra, Nicola Vassell, and Terence Koh

Ossuary: Works on paper collected by Alex Rose, The Black Mariah, Cork, Ireland

I Want a Little Sugar In My Bowl, ASS (Asia Song Society), NYC; curated by Anat Ebgi, Terence Koh, and Jenny Schlenzka (catalog)

Homoccult & Other Esoterotica, Collective Unconscious, NYC; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; curated by Daniel McKernan and Richie Rennt (SUPERM)

The Left Hand of Darkness, The Project, NYC; curated by Sarvia Jasso and Yasmine Dubois

 

2007

BodyPoliticX, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; curated by Florian Waldvogel (catalog)

Love Addiction: Practices in Video Art from ’61 to the Present, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy; curated by Andrea Bruciati (catalog)

The Male Gaze, The powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY; curated by Nicholas Weist

The Brotherhood, Neon Parc, Melbourne, and Australian Centre for Photography (ACP), Sydney; curated by Shannon Michael Cane

 

2006

No Sleep ’til Brooklyn: A powerHouse Hip Hop Retrospective, The powerHouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY; curated by Sara Rosen

Globos Sonda/Trial Balloons, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), León, Spain; curated by Octavio Zaya, Yuko Hasegawa, and Agustín Pérez Rubio (SUPERM, catalog)

Retro, Angell Gallery, Toronto; curated by Jamie Angell

 

2005        

With Us Against Reality, or Against Us! Willy Wonka Inc., Oslo, and Galleri S.E, Bergen, Norway; curated by Ida Ekblad and Anders Nordby (catalog)

Log Cabin, Artists Space, NYC; curated by Jeffrey Uslip (SUPERM)

Post-Diaspora­­­: Voyages and Missions, 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow Museum of Modern Art; curated by Olga Kopenkina (catalog)

 

2004

Phiiliip: Divided by Lightning, Deitch Projects, Brooklyn, NY; curated by John Connelly

BlackBook: 25 Artists Interpret Fashion, Deitch Projects, NYC; curated by BlackBook Magazine

Sublime Audacity – The Stroller’s Experience, Galeria Luis Serpa Projectos, Lisbon, and Maus Habitos, Porto, Portugal (catalog)

PREMAculTURE, PS1 School, Hydra Island, Greece; curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis (catalog)

The Collector’s Cabinet, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles; curated by Simon Watson/Scenic

The Hunt For Your Family, V-1, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Odd Number, Stockholm, Sweden; curated by Loyal Magazine

Sexy Beasts: An Exploration of Sex and Sexuality in Art from 1964 – Present, Ethan Cohen Fine Art, NYC; curated by Robert Knafo

 

2003

Kult 48 Klubhouse, Deitch Projects, Brooklyn, NY; curated by Scott Hug

Snapshot Now, Angell Gallery, Toronto; curated by Randy Gladman

Kult 48, FIAC, Paris Expo; curated by Scott Hug

What About New York? A New New York Scene, Galerie du Jour agnès b., Paris; curated by Scott Hug

Corporate Profits Vs. Labor Costs, Now Playing, D'Amelio Terras, NYC; curated by John Connelly

Fox and His Friends: New Millennium Post-Gay Photography (With Fangs), Garfield Artworks, Pittsburgh; curated by Edgar Um Bucholtz

Angst, Rare Gallery, NYC; curated by Peter Surace

 

2002

K48 Teenage Rebel – The Bedroom Show, John Connelly Presents, NYC; curated by Scott Hug

The Armory Photography Show, Javits Center, NYC

Small Works, Mimi Ferzt Gallery, NYC; curated by Christine Sperber

 

2001

The Muses, Leslie-Lohman Gallery, NYC; curated by Reed Massengill

 

2000

Other Works, Regina Gallery, Moscow

3rd Moscow Photo Biennale, Central House of Artists, Moscow; curated by Olga Sviblova (catalog)

 

SELECTED COLLABORATIONS AND PERFORMANCES

2018  Food Chain, Museum of Human Achievement (MoHA), Austin, Texas

2016  Poets 4 Orlando, Sheep Medow, Central Park, NYC

2016  Gay Propaganda (with Billy Miller), Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, The LGBT Community Center, NYC

2016  "Pilgrims" runway show (with Shayne Oliver and Hood by Air), New York Fashion Week, the Mail Sorting Room in Skylight at Moynihan Station, NYC

2015  Coyote Ugly (with Agathe Snow), Albertz Benda, NYC

2015  Allen Ginsberg's "Please Master" and "America" (with Emanuel Xavier), Howl Happening, NYC

2014  SUPERM Body Painting (with Brian Kenny, Hugo Bo Chanel, Krishna Istha, Hermes Pittakos, Sanuye Shoteka and Torgeir Sagdahl). Presented by Fringe! Film & Arts Festival, Dalston Superstore, London

2013  The New Modern Hair (with Silvia Prada), Pacific Design Center, LA; curated by Joakim Andreasson (catalog)

2012  BRUCE(X)PLOITATION (with Bruce LaBruce, Kembra Pfahler, Gio Black Peter, Brian Kenny, and Carter Harrington), The Hole Gallery, NYC

2011  24 Days of Matter Printed, Printed Matter, Inc., NYC; curated by j. morrison

2010  Vaginal Davis is Speaking From the Diaphragm (with Vaginal Davis), PS 122, NYC

2010  The Happening of Blind Sculpture (with Gelitin), Greene Naftali Gallery, NYC

2009  Manpurse IV: Assembly Line, organized by j. morrison (with Scott Hug, Michael Magnan, Dave Ortega, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Dave Ulrich, and Grant Worth), The NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY

2009  Pornography Project (with Michael Magnan), BUTT IN ASS, A.S.S. (Asia Song Society), curated by BUTT Magazine

2009  Hygiene: A Piece of Instant Theater (with Brian Kenny), directed by Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich, produced by Maria Baibakova, Deitch Projects, NYC

2008  Shaking Angles (with Andrey Bartenev and Brian Kenny), The National Arts Club, NYC

2003  assume vivid astro focus VII (with assume vivid astro focus), Deitch Projects, NYC

2003  Anarchist Wrestling (with Bruce LaBruce), The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

2002  The Ladder of Red (with Andrey Bartenev and Christopher Knowles), The Red Night: 9th Annual Watermill Benefit, Robert Wilson's Watermill Center, Long Island, NY

2002  Mayakovsky Night, Mimi Ferzt Gallery, NYC

2002  Porcile (with Bruce LaBruce), Platinum Oasis curate by Ron Athey and Vaginal Davis, Coral Sands Motel, LA

2001  Kabul Olympics (with Sergey Bratkov), Passage Gallery, Moscow

 

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2024  Gay Propaganda 2.0, Freiluftkino Kreuzberg, Berlin

2024  Carne Sagrada, curated by Slava Mogutin and Perras de Museo, Manos Amigues, Mexico City

2022/23  Gay Propaganda, Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival, Eagle London; Manos Amigues, Mexico City; The Bureau of General Services—Queer Division, NYC; Freiluftkino Kreuzberg, Berlin; Edison Filmhub, Prague

2022  UNZUCHT (Against Nature), as part of Instinct Festival, Village Berlin (catalog)

2019  Old Glory Hole, virtual Instagram show

2012  HELL (SUPERM) envoy enterprises, NYC

2009  Burning the Candle at Both Ends, web gallery for Visual AIDS

200SUPERM Salon, Sundown Salon series, Fritz Haeg's studio, LA